Posted: 6/9/2011 5:50:12 PM EDT
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Here's the deal. Car is a 2007 Chevy Malibu 4 door. Windows are all factory and have never been tinted. Tuesday the wife is driving down the interstate at the posted speed limit and pow the driver side window explodes. She was alright, though it freaked her out a little bit. A quick look inside the car revealed no road debris etc that would have caused it. No one was beside her.
Here is my question. The FHP officer who filed the report said it could have been from the heat / pressure. Any one ever heard of that?? I don't care at this point as the window is replaced and everything is good but its driving the wife batty. |
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It was either heat stress meeting the air conditioning, or a BB gun.
Either way, I had a girlfriend back in 1980's who had a Ford Escort. It was winter...She pulled the car into the garage and the drivers side window had too much of something and decided to shatter. |
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I was on a job in Atlanta years ago. We went down in a rental Lincoln and a rental mini-van.
My supervisor hopped into the mini-van in the motel parking lot, slammed the driver's door and the back glass shattered and blew out. He had just dropped a bunch of us off and we all saw it happen. No rocks, no gunshots, just overpressure. |
| Could have been heat, although I haven't heard about it happening in a long time. It could have been an unnoticed defect in the glass, but most likely it was a flying bit of road debris, car windows are really really easy to shatter into a million bits, and a fairly light strike from a very hard object is all it takes. |
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Tempered auto glass is strange stuff.... strong as hell, until it gets a chip or scratch.
A couple years ago I was scrapping out our back lot at the shop. Loading junk cars on a flatbed trailer with forks on a end loader. Just un-crushed cars stacked 2 high the length of the trailer. Anyways, I had put a Escort hatchback on the first layer and a rear wheel drive car ended up on top of it. The rear end housing of the top car was resting on the middle of the hatchback glass and had bowed the glass inward about an inch with out breaking it  .
Of course as soon as the trailer moved, POP, and it broke. |
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Did she piss off a biker with a handful of spark plug pieces?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCu278LMtJ0&NR=1 |
| Same thing happened to me driving on I-70 in Zanesville, Ohio where the EB and WB lanes are separated only by guardrail. I wondered if something didn't fly off a passing truck on the other side. When it happened, I thought someone had shot at the window...catastrophic, complete failure at 70 mph. Fortunately I kept control of the vehicle. |
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had it happen when I was a kid in mom's car. had it happen a year ago in a tractor (with cab, fucking $700 window) seen it happen a few times. it happens. why get the popo involved? Actually they were running speed trap, saw here pulled over and wrote her a report. Insurance covered it. My deductible is $50 so it was GTG. |
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Did she piss off a biker with a handful of spark plug pieces? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCu278LMtJ0&NR=1 No, but there was a dude down the road on a Vespa scooter. The wife dont like the Vespa's. Never can tell. |
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BMW had issues with their sunroofs exploding. I think they narrowed it down a wind pressure issue and impurities in the glass. Highway speeds created enough pressure to blow them apart. See if has happened to any other Chevys They probably learned that trick from Corvettes.... 
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