2016 Toyota Prius Visibility/Wiper Problems
- 35
- Owner complaint records in our dataset
Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.
Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.
What owners report
- windshield cracked · 7 records
- small rock · 6 records
- windshield crack · 5 records
- long crack · 5 records
- passenger side · 5 records
- crack windshield · 4 records
Mileage in stored records
| Band | Records |
|---|---|
| 1–30k mi | 29 |
| 30–60k mi | 2 |
| 60–100k mi | 1 |
Complaint records
Owner-submitted complaint content, presented as stored.
Visibility/Wiper
I have a 2016 prius with approximately 20,000 miles that was pursued new from the dealership in nov 2016. At around 10:30am, i was two blocks from home, driving on a residential street (25mph) and decelerated to approx 10mph as i approached a red stoplight at the oncoming intersection. Cross traffic was moving but there were no other cars in the lanes left or right of me and/or approaching my car. I heard a very…
ODI 11218509
Visibility/Wiper
With no impact whatsoever, and the car parked and stationary for more than 15 hours, i woke up this morning to find a crack in the front windshield. This crack is in the lower, middle section of the front windshield, generating up from the base of the windshield, and veering towards the left. There is absolutely no feeling of an impact (i.e. Scratch, dent, ping, etc.) on either the outside of the windshield or the…
ODI 11183577
Body · Visibility/Wiper
The windshield on my 2016 toyota prius cracked for no reason. I parked my prius in a covered parking garage. When i returned to my car later, there was a large crack in the windshield (over a foot long), and the crack curved down to the bottom of the windshield. I don't know what caused the windshield to crack all of a sudden. There were no signs of debris or impact. I believe the windshield maybe defective or was…
ODI 11149821
Visibility/Wiper
There is something wrong with the windshield design of the car. I had debris or road gravel hitting the windshield twice in last 2 months and got a crack on windshield in 2 occasions. I was driving car at 65 mph on highway in both instances. I also realize a flaw with wiper design that the wipers do no clear the full wind shield. This reduces visibility specially winter when there is lot of salt and snow on roads.
ODI 11157195
Body · Visibility/Wiper
In motion on a highway. Windshield got hit by a ?rock? And had a small star. Within days it has grown to cover the entire windshield in several different patterns. Windshield is total loss and needs to be replaced.
ODI 11129560
Visibility/Wiper
My windshield had a very minor chip which resulting in a crack across the windshield. This seems to be an disproportionate damage to the windshield suggesting a structural design defect.
ODI 11124176
Visibility/Wiper
While driving from tucson to phoenix on us route 10 at around 65 mph on the way to southern california on august 24, 2018, in 100 degree f. Heat, a crack began in the lower drivers side of the windshield and was a foot long within seconds. By the time i reached home at 5:00pm, the crack had grown horizontally to more than two feet in length. I have avoided washing the windshield with cold water, or at all, and if…
ODI 11123118
Visibility/Wiper
Owner of a 2016 toyota prius 3 with advanced technology package: i'll preface this that i'm satisfied with most/if not all other aspects of the prius (except entune...). However, it seems there is a definite issue with windshields cracking. I was driving on the freeway at the start of roadtrip when i heard and barely saw a rock/pebble hit lower left drivers side section of the windshield. I instantly saw 1-2 inch…
ODI 11114674
Visibility/Wiper
Small rock chip caused windshield to crack all the way through across the entire windshield. I've been driving since i was 17 and never have had a windshield crack from a small rock chip, even the shop said he has seen a lot of this generation prius coming in for replacements. Toyota has made a sub par windshield that isn't able to withstand anything. This glass is thin, and very unsafe. Now my windshield is cracked…
ODI 11104580
Visibility/Wiper
While driving, with no other vehicle within 100 yards, an approximately 12 inch long crack appeared from the lower passenger side windshield. I did not have the radio on and did not hear or see anything strike the windshield. When i arrived at my destination i inspected the crack and saw no chip or other evidence that something struck the windshield. After a few hours i came back to leave and noticed that the crack…
ODI 11099437
Visibility/Wiper
Windshield has cracked in drive way for no reason. Now has spider webbed across windshield obstructing my view. Called to repair and found out many people are reporting the same problem. Even after they fix and replace new windshield i=its cracking again. New windshield is $600plus install and re calibration im looking at $1300. Please help us customers because windshield is defective!
ODI 11091276
Visibility/Wiper
Small rock hit windshield on passenger side while driving on i 25 interstate from rio rancho towards santa fe....overnight crack developed and spread 6 inches or so...subsequently crack quickly spread across center of windshield to drivers side.
ODI 11088852
Visibility/Wiper
While at highway speeds i was struck by a rock. Windshield cracked. Had to have it replaced. Costly and now i am told it will cost another $400+ to have it calibrated. I am now reading that the prius is prone to windshield breaks and the cost of recalibration is both expensive and the dealers don't like doing it so the time to get it done is excessive. I now worry if safety features are compromised and it is…
ODI 11073925
Visibility/Wiper
Windshield cracked while driving down the highway
ODI 11071671
Visibility/Wiper
I had previous problems when i first bought my prius where i received 2 cracks on my windshield within a week of owning the car. I never heard a rock hit my car. I reported it here and toyota called me to replace my windshield so they could keep my old one for quality control. I was fine with this but just today i go out to my car and see a 6 inch crack that started from the bottom of the windshield that wasn't…
ODI 11055627
Visibility/Wiper
A small chip in front windshield and develop a large crack quickly
ODI 11052136
Body · Visibility/Wiper
I had very small windshield crack while i was driving on 10 frwy covina ca , i didn't notice anything hit my windshield was very hot day just heard ting and i shaw crack but within a day was very long about 2ft crack .i took longo toyota at el-monte they said it don't cover by dealer or toyota company so they give me $1265 est. Cost to fix it.it was my 2016 toyota prius miles 17k only and under factory warranty…
ODI 11033430
Visibility/Wiper
While in motion on a highway at 65 mph the driver's side front window shattered. Most of the pieces of the glass fell onto the driver's lap, but pieces also landed on the passenger's side and in the back seat behind the driver. It is unknown why the glass shattered. No object was found in the car that could have shattered it.
ODI 11045494
Visibility/Wiper
Vehicle was stationary sitting in driveway. First crack started and continues to spread. Second crack started 3 weeks after the first. Windshield replacement supposedly on backorder. The car is typically parked in a parking garage during the workweek and either in my driveway or garage. The car is not even 2 years old. To replace windshield also means having to recalibrate for side and back up mirrors to function…
ODI 11048391
Visibility/Wiper
I was driving on i-40w when i got a rock chip on my wind shield. The next day while driving i noticed a crack in my windshield, not associated with the rock chip, starting on the left bottom of the windshield and curving up to the right for about 6". This crack kept progressing daily and now extends approx. 3/[redacted] across the windshield. The windshield for my car is on national backorder without any idea as to…
ODI 11013915
Visibility/Wiper
While driving approximately 60 mph on the freeway, a very small rock hit my windshield and created a crack that was about 1 inch by 1 inch in size. Merely two days later, i woke up to find the crack had extended 3/[redacted] across my entire windshield and completely up and down the entire height of the windshield - just out of the blue, overnight. It's now difficult to properly see out of the windshield as one of…
ODI 11005840
Visibility/Wiper
Windshield chipped easily and developed into very long crack after short period of time. Possible source of initial crack was unseen pebble/debris that hit the windshield during freeway driving. Replacement claimed through auto insurance. The rapid and great increase in length of crack is very concerning. Material durability may be in question.
ODI 11015554
Visibility/Wiper
I was driving to work on the highway and a small rock hit my windshield. Within minutes, a 6 inch crack had developed. By the time i arrived at work (about 15 minutes later), the crack has extended to over a foot. I called a local toyota dealership and asked if any known defects existed. I was told no recalls exists for my windshield. Spoke with my insurance agent and referred to safelite autoglass for replacement,…
ODI 11023695
Unknown Or Other · Visibility/Wiper
I had a very small pebble hit my windshield while driving slowly on a residential street. The initial impact caused several significant cracks running lengthwise and widthwise across my windshield instead of just staring or pitting as traditionally occurs. This is my third prius and i have never experienced a windshield responding this way. It appears online that this has become a very common problem and it is…
ODI 11025200
Visibility/Wiper
Our 2016 prius 2 sedan windshield was struck by a small rock cast laterally across the freeway from several lanes to my right, as one would skip a stone across water, traveling about 55mph. Unforeseeable, unavoidable act of chance, kicked up by another car's tire. Initial damage (see photo series) was two unsightly but repairable craters in the outer layer of glass. Within minutes / before an epoxy repair was…
ODI 11001953
Catalog parts for this system
Catalog year/make/model rows for 2016 Toyota Prius.
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