Spontainious Windshield Shatter?..

[Brock Samson]

   Hey Gang...

   last night, 8:30 P.M. temp approx. 60 degrees, no wind, myself and a friend were cruising the '99 300 M along Golden Gate Ave. at 30 mph, three lanes one direction, west to east, perfectly smooth road, no traffic, when suddenly the windshield Pops, loudly, and shattering extensivly. (see pics) 
  I suspected at first a bullet had hit or grazed the window shattering it.
  After traveling aother quarter of a mile a close examination under a street light revealed no bullet hole as i had expected to find.
  I didn't find any evidence of impact of any object nor was I aware of any object of any kind at the moment of impact, simply a shattering from drivers to passenger side.

Any thoughts, possible explainations or similar experiances?.. 

[41husk]

Wow!  Maybe there was a defect in the glass?

[dodgecharger-fan]

Stress crack from an uneven spot under the trim?

But why now after so long, I don't know...

[moparstuart]

   Hey Gang...

   last night, 8:30 P.M. temp approx. 60 degrees, no wind, myself and a friend were cruising the '99 300 M along Golden Gate Ave. at 30 mph, three lanes one direction, west to east, perfectly smooth road, no traffic, when suddenly the windshield Pops, loudly, and shattering extensivly. (see pics) 
  I suspected at first a bullet had hit or grazed the window shattering it.
  After traveling aother quarter of a mile a close examination under a street light revealed no bullet hole as i had expected to find.
  I didn't find any evidence of impact of any object nor was I aware of any object of any kind at the moment of impact, simply a shattering from drivers to passenger side.

Any thoughts, possible explainations or similar experiances?.. 

I was a ghost   

[SFRT]

you where blasting that damn music too loud again.

[Brock Samson]

  ah, you know me too well,.. actually we were listening to some 17th century Cello music softly...
& now the neighbors are comming over wanting to know what happened... 
they are genuinly concerned and think it was vandalism..

anyone got an idea of what a windshield might cost?.. of course i'm going for an estimate in an hour or two,..
screws up my santa cruz cruise, guess i'll just have to take the R/T...  DAMN! 

[challenger70]

  ah, you know me too well,.. actually we were listening to some 17th century Cello music softly...
& now the neighbors are comming over wanting to know what happened... 
they are genuinly concerned and think it was vandalism..

anyone got an idea of what a windshield might cost?.. of course i'm going for an estimate in an hour or two,..
screws up my santa cruz cruise, guess i'll just have to take the R/T...  DAMN! 

Auto glass does some weird things, happens quite a bit actually.  I remember as a kid we were driving along and the rear window of our station wagon just exploded for no reason.

[Bandit72]

i remember afew years ago when me and my buddy first got our drivers licenses, we were driving his moms almost new caddy and there was a bug on the windsheild...well i went to swipe it away and GRAZED the window with my fingers and it did almost the same thing...  we told her we hit bird...

[bakerhillpins]

Stress crack from an uneven spot under the trim?

But why now after so long, I don't know...

That really looks like it originated from under the trim about half way up the pillar. I wonder if something got stuck under the trim (between glass and trim) and a well placed bump in the road gave it just the hit it needed on the edge of the glass.

Bryan

[Drache]

Stress crack from an uneven spot under the trim?

But why now after so long, I don't know...

That really looks like it originated from under the trim about half way up the pillar. I wonder if something got stuck under the trim (between glass and trim) and a well placed bump in the road gave it just the hit it needed on the edge of the glass.

Bryan

I was sort of thinking the same thing....

[69*F5*SE]

Sure is a little spooky if you ask me     like from beyond   

[Khyron]

o.k.. I have to ask because no one has...



where the hell where you that you thought someone was shooting at you? hehehe

[68RT4ME]

  ah, you know me too well,.. actually we were listening to some 17th century Cello music softly...
& now the neighbors are comming over wanting to know what happened... 
they are genuinly concerned and think it was vandalism..

anyone got an idea of what a windshield might cost?.. of course i'm going for an estimate in an hour or two,..
screws up my santa cruz cruise, guess i'll just have to take the R/T...  DAMN! 

Hey Brock. Depending on your insurance company, it most likely won't cost you a thing to have it replaced. Most insurances will send a company of your choice to your home or work and they will fix it on the spot. They will bring with them a couple of windshields in case they break one during install. I had a rock break my windshield on my Toyo P/U last year. Allstate covered it for free. No deductable and zero cost. I simply called the company of my choice. They came to my house and were done in under an hour. I signed the reciept and they sent the bill to Allstate.

Good luck....

[Drache]

o.k.. I have to ask because no one has...



where the hell where you that you thought someone was shooting at you? hehehe

It's Brock does it matter where he is? 

[RD]

look for a demon face in there like in that golfers shot.. you know its there  (i cant find it hehehe )

[472 R/T SE]

That'll eliminate the inside glare inherent of 300's.  Stinkin' Chrysler product.  

We've had cranes do that.  Usually it was the lower cab that did it, get out of the cab and leave the heat on.  A few times like you, just driving down the road and BAM!  I remember one popping inside the shop too.  The Leibherr I was on windshield cost over $2200 and that was in '02 or so.

Definitely scare the bejeebus outta ya'.

[TUFCAT]

At first glance it appears to have come from the A-pillar area (like bakerhillpins and Drache suggest) but I've never, ever, seen a crack spread like that.  It looks like IMPACT. Period. Did you have any previous windshield chips filled?  If so, it will weaken the area - - but then of course, you'd have to have impact at the exact same spot to cause this type of damage - - which is highly doubtful..... but could happen. 

Actually, I like the ghost theory best  - - have you pissed off any dead people lately? 

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

I hope you can sleep well at night....hit & run is a very serious felony....looks like a head print in the glass





Oh yeah....17th century cello music?  WTF dude?

[Daytona R/T SE]

   

Any thoughts, possible explainations or similar experiances?.. 

  Space Peanut ?   

[Johnny SixPack]

Maybe you need to hit the Listerine, bro! 

[Ghoste]

I had a rear quarter window in the Charger shatter once when it was just sitting in the driveway.  Who knows what cuases it, odd temp changes?

[mikepmcs]

Stress crack from an uneven spot under the trim?

But why now after so long, I don't know...

That really looks like it originated from under the trim about half way up the pillar. I wonder if something got stuck under the trim (between glass and trim) and a well placed bump in the road gave it just the hit it needed on the edge of the glass.

Bryan

I was sort of thinking the same thing....

I'm on the same train as the rest here.

[TheGhost]

Sudden change in temperature does it, too.

[69charger2002]

definitely looks like the center up driver's side was the culprit.. maybe something was lodged in there as others have said.. bet a precious honda or toyota wouldn't have done that..   

[Musicman]

I had a window shatter on me once... literally.
I was driving down the road during a thunderstorm when I saw the car in front me get hit by lightning... right dead center on the top of the cab! Holy crap... I don't think the guy even new it... he just kept driving like nothing had happened. I few moments later I hear what sounds like a rifle going off in my backseat, and glass is suddenly flying everywhere like it was fired out of a cannon. I hit the brakes and pull over to the side of the road. The inside of the car is covered in broken glass and the rear window is gone. I got out of the car and walked around the back to check the damage. The window is gone obviously, but the trim molding is also gone... well sort of... it's no longer around the window, it's in pieces and stuck to various parts of the car... quarter panel, roof, trunk, etc. I tried to pick up the pieces but they were stuck to the car... I couldn't pull them off, I couldn't pry them off, they were stuck there for good. They looked OK, but apparently they had been welded to the body by what must have been a lightning strike to the rear of the car. Well I'm standing out there in the pouring rain with no rear window, so I figured, the heck with the trim, I'll try to get it off later when I get home. I walked back to the front and open the drivers side door to get in, and then I hear what sounds like metal hitting the pavement behind me... I turned and looked, and there was all the trim laying on the ground... it just fell off.... Lightning does some weird stuff.

[69charger2002]

man that is freaky!! the only story i had was once when i first got into chargers.. had to be 97 or so. i had carefully removed a back glass from a parts car. i'm literally carrying it in my 2 hands.. and i got about 30 feet away fromthe car and it shattered into thousands of pieces right ther ein my hands. of course no gloves on! i didn't get a single scratch, not one shred of glass was left in my hand(no i didn't drop it lol). it was the weirdest thing ever. i was pickingg up glass for an hour afterwards.. maybe the sun hit it funny? i am sure i didn't bump anything... it was odd

[Drache]

I had a window shatter on me once... literally.
I was driving down the road during a thunderstorm when I saw the car in front me get hit by lightning... right dead center on the top of the cab! Holy crap... I don't think the guy even new it... he just kept driving like nothing had happened. I few moments later I hear what sounds like a rifle going off in my backseat, and glass is suddenly flying everywhere like it was fired out of a cannon. I hit the brakes and pull over to the side of the road. The inside of the car is covered in broken glass and the rear window is gone. I got out of the car and walked around the back to check the damage. The window is gone obviously, but the trim molding is also gone... well sort of... it's no longer around the window, it's in pieces and stuck to various parts of the car... quarter panel, roof, trunk, etc. I tried to pick up the pieces but they were stuck to the car... I couldn't pull them off, I couldn't pry them off, they were stuck there for good. They looked OK, but apparently they had been welded to the body by what must have been a lightning strike to the rear of the car. Well I'm standing out there in the pouring rain with no rear window, so I figured, the heck with the trim, I'll try to get it off later when I get home. I walked back to the front and open the drivers side door to get in, and then I hear what sounds like metal hitting the pavement behind me... I turned and looked, and there was all the trim laying on the ground... it just fell off.... Lightning does some weird stuff.

sounds like the lightning had magnetized the trim temporarily....

[Musicman]

man that is freaky!! the only story i had was once when i first got into chargers.. had to be 97 or so. i had carefully removed a back glass from a parts car. i'm literally carrying it in my 2 hands.. and i got about 30 feet away fromthe car and it shattered into thousands of pieces right ther ein my hands. of course no gloves on! i didn't get a single scratch, not one shred of glass was left in my hand(no i didn't drop it lol). it was the weirdest thing ever. i was pickingg up glass for an hour afterwards.. maybe the sun hit it funny? i am sure i didn't bump anything... it was odd

Old glass collapsed under it's own weight.

[Musicman]

sounds like the lightning had magnetized the trim temporarily....

Yup, thats what happened... the effects of the strike were still lingering in the metal of the body, but when I opened the door I probably shorted the field to ground. 

[TUFCAT]

Oh yeah....17th century cello music?  WTF dude?

I have to agree.   For God's SAKE!!  17th century cello music??  Did you install a rare mopar phonograph in that bitch? 

[FLG]

I think were all missing the obvious...brock built a stroker for that car, made it look completely stock and the torque simply cracked the glass   

[Ghoste]

Aha, so that's what he's been doing since his retirement.

[TUFCAT]

Aha, so that's what he's been doing since his retirement.

that, .....and listening to cello music 

[bakerhillpins]

man that is freaky!! the only story i had was once when i first got into chargers.. had to be 97 or so. i had carefully removed a back glass from a parts car. i'm literally carrying it in my 2 hands.. and i got about 30 feet away fromthe car and it shattered into thousands of pieces right ther ein my hands. of course no gloves on! i didn't get a single scratch, not one shred of glass was left in my hand(no i didn't drop it lol). it was the weirdest thing ever. i was pickingg up glass for an hour afterwards.. maybe the sun hit it funny? i am sure i didn't bump anything... it was odd

Tempered glass. Besides the fact that the tempering makes the faces of the glass much more impact resistant its shatters into lots of tiny pieces, which is actually MUCH safer than plate glass. Its used for lots of safety stuff. Ive had a sheet from one of my pinball machines blow up while I was holding it right in front of my face. It explodes within its plane, makes a bone numbing pop and shoots glass for easily 20' in both directions. Needless to say I changed my shorts. Tempered glass is most susceptible to detonation when it is impacted on its edges, and it doesn't take much to cause it to go. Never set tempered glass on concrete, they are arch enemies and it will almost pop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempered_glass
"Tempered glass is strong, has enhanced thermal resistance, and breaks into small cuboid fragments rather than irregular shards of glass and therefore is less likely to cause injury."

Bryan