Shattering windows
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Shattering windows
I'm new here so first off hello to everybody. Glad to have a place to talk Ford trucks !!
Traded my 150 a month ago for 250 Crew. Been saving to upgrade and man am I glad I did. Love it.
Now my story (no I'm not drinkin yet, this is a true story) I was driving from Tx. to Ga. last week doing about 75 on the interstate and the drivers side window blew up. It exploded !! There was nobody in front of me or beside me. No lawnmowers etc. on the side of the road....nothing. Thought I was shot from the woods
but after a quick exam no blood, no damage on passenger side. My window blew up. Can anybody tell me or even guess what the &*%^ could have happened?
Thanks, Lucky
Traded my 150 a month ago for 250 Crew. Been saving to upgrade and man am I glad I did. Love it.
Now my story (no I'm not drinkin yet, this is a true story) I was driving from Tx. to Ga. last week doing about 75 on the interstate and the drivers side window blew up. It exploded !! There was nobody in front of me or beside me. No lawnmowers etc. on the side of the road....nothing. Thought I was shot from the woods
but after a quick exam no blood, no damage on passenger side. My window blew up. Can anybody tell me or even guess what the &*%^ could have happened?Thanks, Lucky
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it was probably Sunspots!!
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hey, i hear ya tho... didn't it scare the BeJeeezus outta ya???!! out of the blue this happened this WINTER while driving in my mom's 95 Bronco. for NO reason whatsoever, in the middle of Michigan's Upper Pennisula (miles from nearest town), the REAR window just friggin EXPLODED!!!
we could've SWORN we had been shot.... but were in middle of a wide wide wide open field... and +5degF out (doubt there were any BBgun kidz hiding in the weedz/bushes).
still no explaination for it.
lucky its summer/fall for you -- i'll tell ya, that was a LONG and VERY VERY COLD 40 mile drive to nearest available hardware store (luckily we had all snowmobile gear w/ so it was Bundle-City for sometime).
glad you're safe.
also, congrats on the 250!!!! (just got my first truck last Monday)
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hey, i hear ya tho... didn't it scare the BeJeeezus outta ya???!! out of the blue this happened this WINTER while driving in my mom's 95 Bronco. for NO reason whatsoever, in the middle of Michigan's Upper Pennisula (miles from nearest town), the REAR window just friggin EXPLODED!!!
we could've SWORN we had been shot.... but were in middle of a wide wide wide open field... and +5degF out (doubt there were any BBgun kidz hiding in the weedz/bushes).
still no explaination for it.
lucky its summer/fall for you -- i'll tell ya, that was a LONG and VERY VERY COLD 40 mile drive to nearest available hardware store (luckily we had all snowmobile gear w/ so it was Bundle-City for sometime).
glad you're safe.
also, congrats on the 250!!!! (just got my first truck last Monday)
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I'm on an emergency response team. We have these little hammer gizmos for breaking auto glass. On the side and rear glass, it only takes a small tap on the lower portion of the window for the whole thing to explode as you described. I was amazed the first time I did it. It really doesn’t take much energy to make the glass disappear. I can believe that if a window was jammed in its track and bound-up, a good jar could make it fracture.
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I went to a local dealer in Miss. to get the window fixed and they kept telling me something had to have hit it. They said they had never heard of that happening before. One guy there finally told me they had in fact seen it before but don't know how it happens.
The owner of the glass co. that replaced it said he's seen it when something is trapped in the window track and puts the glass in a bind. Then you hit a bump just right and the glass does just what it's supposed to do........EXPLODE into a gazillion pieces!! Darn sure got my attention, that's for sure.
The owner of the glass co. that replaced it said he's seen it when something is trapped in the window track and puts the glass in a bind. Then you hit a bump just right and the glass does just what it's supposed to do........EXPLODE into a gazillion pieces!! Darn sure got my attention, that's for sure.
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