Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISIBILITY - GLASS, SIDE/REAR | |||
| Consumer states of having problems with her windows. ts | |||
| VISIBILITY - POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS | |||
| 10/01/2003 | 3000 | 6 | 01/16/2002 |
| Tl*the contact owns a 2002 kia spectra. while driving 5 mph, the front driver side power window fell. the dealer stated that the window regulator caused the failure. approximately two years later, the failure recurred. the dealer stated that the window regulator was poor quality and they replaced the window regulator and re-attached the window cable. approximately one year later, the driver and passenger side rear windows and the front passenger side window fell simultaneously. the dealer stated that the weather caused a plastic part on the window regulator to fail. the dealer replaced all three window regulators. the powertrain was unknown. the failure mileage was 3,000 and current mileage was 24,140. | |||
| 11/26/2003 | 1 | 10/15/2002 | |
| Driver's side front window locked up will not roll down. used on the way to work, 4 hours later would not roll down. no noise, or sounds just quit working. *la | |||
| VISIBILITY - WINDSHIELD | |||
| 12/15/2004 | 38000 | 3 | 03/16/2004 |
| I bought a car 8 months ago, a kia spectra, right after i got it the rearview mirror fell down with a piece of the windshield. i went to the kia dealer and they fixed it. they replaced the windshield. but last week exactly the same problem happened again they rescheduled my appointment 3 times, and finally today after 7 hours of waiting i got my car back. but this time they didn't replace it, they only glued it, which by the way i don't think is going to work. but they said that kia doesn't want to replace it because the car doesn't have a kia windshield anymore. but when they replaced it the first time they decided to used a non-kia part, not me probably because the difference in the price is over $200. anyway, i'm really upset and disappointed with this. i give them a chance to show me how good kia is. you can order a kia windshield for $350 or you can replace it with a local company for about $100. so you do the math, and tell me if there is a difference. *ak | |||
| 17000 | 1 | ||
| The windshield glass cracked very easily when impacted by the lightest object per consumer. *tt | |||
| 05/10/2002 | |||
| While driving in the sun windshield has little specs that cause slight visiblity.*ak | |||
| 04/26/2002 | 1 | 04/01/2002 | |
| Windshield cracked easily. took vehicle to dealer and service manager said there was nothing they could do about the problem. noticed other comments of windsheild cracking on edmunds.com web site. appears to be a major flaw in the windshield, and may be responsible for future car accidents. manufacturer should contact kia owners and recall windsheilds due to faulty glass.*ak | |||