Driver Side Door Window

[jeffbcolo]

This is crazy. I am on a long road trip with my < 300 miles Telluride. We are driving probably 80 mph on the interstate (legal in MT), I roll down the driver window to feel the temperature outside. Fine enough. I roll up the window but to my astonishment, the window won't seal - the wind pressure is causing the window to bow out and not align with the grove in the door seal. Then the safety feature that reverses the closing as if an arm or something is in the way (as it should) rolls the window back down. The window will not close at all. Glad it wasn't raining. I literally had to slow down to 40 mph to get the window to close. Nothing I have ever experienced before in any vehicle. Design problem? I honestly don't know how a dealer can fix that issue. Nothing is bent and the window works fine if you are not at highway speeds. Yikes.

 

[DRK]

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I experienced similar problem with the passenger side window while driving about 80mph on I-70 in Utah. It looked like wind pressure pushed the window seal, so there was a slight gap between the seal and window, that made whistle. The window was closed though. I slowed down only a couple of miles and retried closing, then it closed completely.
It might be a design flaw. Just do not open windows on high speed driving like 80mph.

 

[Shane in RR]

Mine, too. Kia is going to have to address this. If you don’t want to slow down, crack a widow on the other side and roll up the offending window first or roll them both up at the same time.

 

[TheNip73]

This is physics.

Probably not a lot that can be done to address this one.

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[G-128304]

I have the same issue with wind causing the driver and passenger side window to whistle at speeds greater than 60 mph. Currently having this addressed at Kia Dealership. Got a call earlier today from dealership saying that that an exact make an model S has same wind/whistling issue. Their mechanics have initially chalked this up as being an aerodynamic issue that is common across (at least 2) vehicles. I have requested that they call Kia and look into the problem to see if there is a fix.

 

[KingTitan]

I had this problem during my 6000km SW USA trip from Canada this summer. I had lots of time to figure out stuff LOL. So I am a vaper and have my window cracked and so does my wife, with the vents on it creates and nice vacuum out of the vehicle but going 60-80mph on the Montana highways we found we couldn't not get the windows up. I found a solution which was to turn the vents off and and then the windows go up with the pressures more equal.

The more frighting and safety concern that is also potential death is the situation with the window vibrations going at high speed that I really need an answer for discussed in this thread... Window shakes in the wind

 

[Tim-in-CA]

Did you try to recalibrate the window? See the user manual for the process.

 

[KingTitan]

Did you try to recalibrate the window? See the user manual for the process.

Oh, I have not. Thank you I will take a look.

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[bogie]

Is this the recalibrate you are talking about? From page 4-38

Don't see how this will help with the issue at hand.

If there is something other than this, please state page number...

What I did when this happened, I opened the sunroof a small bit, then closed the window, then closed the sunroof...

 

[G-26902]

I also have this problem with our passenger side window. Took it to my dealership in Manteca, CA and it was the first they heard of it. Tried calibrating with no success. We open another window to balance the pressure to close it. Sent e-mail to corporate waiting on response (not holding my breath). I would hope that KIA will submit a re-call at some point. Other than that, we love our new Telluride

 

[Ridin]

I have the same problem with an air leak on the driver's side window or door, not sure. My Telluride S starts making a noise at around 40 mph and disappears around 60 mph, I've tried the calibration thing with no luck and wanted to see if this was a common issue. Anyone know who to contact about this problem?

 

[Dave Fingers]

This is crazy. I am on a long road trip with my < 300 miles Telluride. We are driving probably 80 mph on the interstate (legal in MT), I roll down the driver window to feel the temperature outside. Fine enough. I roll up the window but to my astonishment, the window won't seal - the wind pressure is causing the window to bow out and not align with the grove in the door seal. Then the safety feature that reverses the closing as if an arm or something is in the way (as it should) rolls the window back down. The window will not close at all. Glad it wasn't raining. I literally had to slow down to 40 mph to get the window to close. Nothing I have ever experienced before in any vehicle. Design problem? I honestly don't know how a dealer can fix that issue. Nothing is bent and the window works fine if you are not at highway speeds. Yikes.

Just had the same issue on my 2021vSX, try lowering the other window so yours closes then raise the passenger. I will be calling the dealer tomorrow.

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[KML]

Well, first long road trip today for me and my 2021 SXP had same issue with the passenger window rolling back up fully. I heard about this issue earlier so I rolled down the driver window and then my wife was able to successfully roll up the passenger side. Definitely an issue that should be addresses. None of my previous vehicles had this issue.

Additionally, the windows vibrated like hell when rolled down slightly at high speeds.

 

[Drae]

I'm having the same issue with my 2020 SX passenger side. I'd roll it all the way down going 75mph, then try to roll it all the way back up but it'll slide back down and make a cm crack. So I had my sister who was driving, try to operate it on the driver's side and it didn't work. Once we got to a construction zone and had to slow down, I think we got as slow as 35mph and it still didn't roll up. It did it in the past before when I was driving but I was able to roll it back up when I got to the construction zone but this time didn't do it. We finally took a break, turned the car off and it rolled back up. So it doesn't seem like it's a motor problem. Bcuz they were both fully functional. Took it to the dealership and they claim it's my tint. That there's too much tint on one side of the window and that the others didn't have that issue. So I called the tint place and they said they never heard of such a thing. He google search window issues for Telluride and here I am. Sounds like there's a flaw in how they made this a "smart" window. I don't know if they recalibrated it or not, I'd like to think they did but I'm not holding my breath. I shall see.

 

[The Headhunter]

Check the manual/features guide for something called "Window Logic Feature". Might be experiencing this.

 

[PittPa]

I've heard a work around is opening your sunroof when moving to change the pressure. Well documented problem. I think Kia did a great job but there is only so much testing outside the real world that can be done for a first model car that is so different that what they have done in the past.

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[qwikhit]

Reading in the manual; talks about how the window will stop going up if it “senses” something is in the path kinda like an automatic garage door. So basically if the window feels resistance it will stop going up. Shutting off the vehicle and restarting probably resets this function

 

[DarkMossJustin]

I noticed something like this on an extremely high wind day. I get when I'm going real fast it'll do this but a combination of speed + high winds can also reproduce this issue.

I like to have the windows down and when the winds are pounding from one side, the power windows will go up, but then retreat a few centimeters down so that there's no more seal. This happened at 35-55 mph with extreme winds pounding the car from the driver's side.

Is this just physics combined with Kia's power window safety sensor reacting as if a hand got caught in the window?

 

[qwikhit]

Yeah it seems to be a combination of safety and physics

 

[DarkMossJustin]

Yeah it seems to be a combination of safety and physics

@qwikhit:

Have you experienced this driver's/passenger's window phenomenon too?