Unfortunately Radner, you’re incorrect about the windshield on Subaru vehicles with Eyesight.
I’m a Subaru employee, and 4 time Subaru owner.... I know a thing or two.
Suabru’s without Eyesight, do not require an OEM windshield. If you have Eyesight, you must have an OEM windshield on your vehicle. Every Ascent has Eyesight, so it’s applicable to all Ascents.
Now, one of the disadvantages of Eyesight, or any vehicle with advance safety features built behind the windshields, are they are incredibly expensive to replace. Right before I traded my ‘18 Outback 3.6R Touring, for my ‘19 Ascent Touring, I had to have my Outback’s windshield replaced. It came to the tune of $1,100, which included calibration. I have a coworker who had to have his Ascent windshield replaced two weeks after he bought his, and was about the same price.
That being said, I have always had full glass coverage, which is part of your comprehensive coverage on ones insurance policy. Now, by and large, comprehensive claims don’t affect your premiums- as they are deemed ‘acts of god’. Now if you start hitting tons of deer, cracking windshields left and right, and getting stuck in hail storms, I’m sure your insurance company will have second guesses about you as a customer.
As a Subaru employee, do I thing the tire and wheel packages, windshield and dent package, and any of the other ones similar are sensible? No, not for a Honda, Toyota, Lexus, Porsche, and not a Subaru. Usually their is limitations on time for those packages, aka 3-5 years. So if you’re someone who owns the vehicle till you hit 6 digits on the odometer, many of those packages won’t cover you throughout your whole ownership.
When someone goes into finance, really the only sensible ‘add on’s’ one might want to consider is GAP (if you financed), and extended warranty (for a piece of mind- all cars are getting high tech these days, and more expensive to repair).
Just make sure to have full glass on your new Subaru, with no deductible or a low one. It is worth it, seriously.