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Mystery: Window shatters all by itself??? Internal stress? 200 1990

posted by  bigscreenbob on  Sun Aug 17 17:14 CST 2008
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So I'm walking my dog tonight and discover to my horror that the right rear (cargo) window on my prized 1990 240 wagon is completely shattered.

It's the original 18 year-old glass. It's uniformly, evenly shattered, no sign of vandalism, and it's parked in a safe, presumably/virtually crime-free area. No "epicenter" of cracking, which one would expect from a blow from a rock, or baseball bat, or whatever. The safety glass nuggets are all still tightly in place; no glass has fallen into or out of the car.

Is it possible internal stress built up over 18 years is responsible?

Could the fact that I had this and the other windows of this car tinted (for the first time) 3 or 4 weeks ago be a factor somehow???

Bob





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