Spontaneous rear windscreen smash

Spontaneous rear windscreen smash

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scrubchub

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1,844 posts

141 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Neighbour just knocked on the door, said he was working in the garden and heard something that sounded like a bomb going off, lo and behold, it was the rear windscreen of my partners Qashqai:



No reason for it. Car was parked in our space, off road, and we live down a tiny track that has no footfall or traffic. There was no one around.

Anyone heard of spontaneous glass explosions before? The hole in the corner looks like something has hit it to me.

cuprabob

14,703 posts

215 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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A projectile of some sort has hit that, whether is be a stone or an air gun pellet.

My money is on the neighbour smile

parabolica

6,724 posts

185 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Doing what in his garden? Looks like a stone has been chipped up by a strimmer and gone through the glass IMO. Anything inside the car to suggest what went through it?

Feel for you; a month after getting my car the panoramic roof imploded; I was sure nothing had hit it as it happened on a clear day, no traffic etc however the dealer claimed there was no warping to the frame so the only possibility was something hitting it.

FourWheelDrift

88,572 posts

285 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Frozen wee falling from a passing airliner, evidence now melted.

Obligatory Mail link - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3287869/No...

smile

jamei303

3,005 posts

157 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Could be a meteorite. Have a look for it.

lucido grigio

44,044 posts

164 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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cuprabob said:
My money is on the neighbour smile
This....judge

SantaBarbara

3,244 posts

109 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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scrubchub said:
Neighbour just knocked on the door, said he was working in the garden and heard something that sounded like a bomb going off, lo and behold, it was the rear windscreen of my partners Qashqai:



No reason for it. Car was parked in our space, off road, and we live down a tiny track that has no footfall or traffic. There was no one around.

Anyone heard of spontaneous glass explosions before? The hole in the corner looks like something has hit it to me.
What was he doing?

Order66

6,732 posts

250 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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It can happen - rare but not unheard of. Without evidence that the neighbour was involved you just have to accept that it may have happened all by itself, claim the insurance and forget about it.

ging84

8,923 posts

147 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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It's a rare but still well known and well documented phenomenon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_glass_br...
Probably less likely than an impact by something thrown up by a high powered mower or strimmer had your neighbours been using one at the time. But a lot more likely than a meteor or something falling from a plane.

Poshbury

687 posts

120 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Whilst using my ride on mower, I put a stone straight through the drivers window of one of my cars, another through the lounge window and to top it off, did the same to the back lounge window later on.
They say things come in three's.

Think yourself lucky OP.

Greendubber

13,229 posts

204 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Happened to my car years ago, sunny day, no one around and POP...the autoglass guy said it was fairly common.

Mine didn't have a hole in it though....

anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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There have been a couple of posts on PH in the last 6 months of exploding windscreens on cars. Something about stress iirc.


Thermobaric

725 posts

121 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Most likely spontaneous. Quite a common thing with tempered glass. Happens quite a bit to shower screens.

Annoying but nothing nefarious imo. Probably as a result of heating/cooling.

Edited by Thermobaric on Sunday 27th August 13:11

scrubchub

Original Poster:

1,844 posts

141 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Thanks for the replies - along the lines of what I was thinking to be honest. Explanation of the layout (bear in mind that the plot has been developed, so even though it looks like I'm talking about a garden, it is now a gravel driveway):



My place is the blue dotted house.
My car park space is the blue box.
Neighbours car in the black box.
Gardening taking place in the red box.

Hopefully you can see that we are very nicely tucked away off a very quiet road, hidden around the corner of small, derelict house and backing onto a neighbours house. There is no way anyone else has been around there and done this, so the only realistic explanations are neighour or it has just exploded in the searing heat of this 19 degree Sunday lunchtime.

SantaBarbara

3,244 posts

109 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Was half the car in strong hot sunlight, while the other half was in shade?

scrubchub

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1,844 posts

141 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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Ha, while I was writing that reply some others have posted! I'd rather it was just a freak spontaneous thing of course, rather than the nieghbour being clumsy, so I'll chalk it up to that. I'm not going to go around accusing anyone of anything anyway.

scrubchub

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1,844 posts

141 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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SantaBarbara said:
Was half the car in strong hot sunlight, while the other half was in shade?
Yes, pretty much. Broken glass in the sun, front windscreen not.

EDIT: £70 excess on insurance. Could be worse.

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

240 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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scrubchub said:
Ha, while I was writing that reply some others have posted! I'd rather it was just a freak spontaneous thing of course, rather than the nieghbour being clumsy, so I'll chalk it up to that. I'm not going to go around accusing anyone of anything anyway.
Yup, looks like the sun's shining right where it popped.

anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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reminded me of the Seattle windshield pitting epidemic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_p...

CJ1987

4,295 posts

153 months

Sunday 27th August 2017
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When I worked at a dealership similar thing happened to a C2 we had in, even after checking the CCTV footage the window had randomly exploded though has never happened to me personally