Windscreen looks fuzzy in rain, I want to replace it

Hi everyone,

I am a 2012 pip owner (bought used 6 years ago), currently at about 120k miles.

The car itself drives very well, but I am noticing that the visibility from the front windscreen gets very poor (and fuzzy) when it is night and it rains (even with wipers at full speed + defoggers ON).

Any shining light in front of me (either tail lights of cars ahead of me, or traffic lights) show up as vertical shimmers across the windscreen.

Today evening, I was in a very similar situation - I was taking my son to his art class during night time with heavy rains and I had a very strong heightened awareness of risk due to poor visibility.

I am thinking if I replace the windscreen, it could perhaps fix the problem?

If I am on the right track
- Would this actually fix the problem which I describe?
- What type of cost can I expect with OEM parts + labor?
- Should I get it done from any place which offers cheapest labor cost?

If I am not on the right track to fix this problem - what other ideas can I try?

What is your collective guidance on this topic?
Anyone else faced same issues with their old PiP's?

Thank you!

 

This is a close approximation of what I see while driving (obviously my vision is more in focus that what I could get with the camera)

 

Thank you everyone, I was waiting for another rainy drive to respond back.
I am using defogger, but i noticed that I keep the settings to pull in air from outside, with temp set to 71F
I will try again with settings as mentioned by @BiomedO1

Yes, i have an OEM heads up display which came with the car.
I also have anti-glare glasses.

I was able to capture a true representation of the problem. Then I asked my son to verify if it was just me or he was also seeing what I was seeing (See attached screenshot). Sadly he also confirmed it.

As a second test, we tried looking at same lights from driver side and passenger side windows and there was absolutely no glow (as seen in the windscreen)

Additionally, as soon as the rain stopped, the front windscreen visibility went back to normal.

 

Figured out how to show the image

 

Yes, it only happens when its actively raining. The moment when raindrops stop, windscreen visibility is back to normal.

My camera lens is clean, infact I had a new'ish phone that day. To make sure it was not something with my eyesight, i also asked my son and he described it similarly to what i was seeing.

The video in the original post was perhaps not the best way to show it to you all as i was driving and trying to capture at the same time. This picture - car was stationary, so i could take a moment to capture correctly.

I clean my car windscreen vertically, yes you are correct on that.

 

In rain, I turn on the defog mode for both front and rear windscreen. That automatically pulls in cabin air from outside and turns off the AC (its light is off). Then I just set temp to 70F as needed.

Is that what you were suggesting?