rear window blown out

Took the car for an early evening run - heard a whump as the rear screen blew out - it wasn't a shatter from something hitting it- it just exploded- when I stopped the car the remaining glass was all pointing outwards.



I've had a saga getting the AA to agree to recover me to the dealer and now I'm facing wasting all day tomorrow going to and from the dealer.

If I don't travel with the car the AA put it on a 48hour relay - which means it won't get to the dealer during opening hours and will no doubt vanish from an AA compound or get soaked when it gets left outside.

The only way I can guarantee it gets there tomorrow is to travel with it and then work out how I get back from Winchester to Cambridge without spending the whole day doing it or catching covid on the way...Hoping I can get the use of a courtesy car...

Was the heated rear screen on as that might have triggered it if there was a weakness in the toughened glass.

It's toughened glass.

I’m just glad (if it had to happen) it happened near to home and when I wasn’t on my way anywhere special…

No I'm not...

I am trying to not get too annoyed with it but I can't afford to waste days on end getting these things fixed.

Good job that Lotus Emira a) isn't available yet; and b) is a chunker.


I'm trying to look on the positive - that I've had 3 years of pretty much faultless motoring. But two issues within a week is not good.

Customer service from St Albans/Chelmsford wasn’t great when I was trying to get the brake fault looked at. Didn’t return calls and then weren’t able to look at the car until mid Jan so am using the original dealer I bought the car from from when new.

!! WOW That really is bad luck. !!

If helps, I'm about 40-mins from Winchester, have family scattered around Cambridge, and could bring forwards a visit and benefit from the miles to run-in the new Légende.
There doesn't seem to be a PM system on this forum, and I wouldn't want to put contact details here, but I could ask Adam at Martins-Winchester to give you my details when you drop the vehicle there.
You'd have to put up with me driving like a Granny, only got it on Saturday, but the offer's there.

That is incredibly kind of you.
I’ll try to get a courtesy car but that’s a great relief if you are able to help out.

Many thanks

They don’t have one in stock so I’ll have to leave it with them. In an ideal world perhaps they’d swap rear windows with one of the stock vehicles but I’m not sure that will happen.

Thank you very much indeed. I’m at the mercy of the AA so will be any time from 9:30 to 11:30