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Rear window goes bye-bye... 200 1989

posted by  someone claiming to be Kyle Sullivan on  Fri Oct 29 06:49 CST 1999 [RELATED]

Hello-

I had a pleasant surprise yesterday on the ride to work. I was on Route 95 and my rear window all of a sudden shattered. A sniper? No...

Upon the loud noise of stress, I peered back to see a completely shattered window, but no holes. Soon small pieces started to fall out of the window puzzel onto the road behind me. I then pulled over and pushed the window into my back seat. I was luck enough to find someone to put a new one last night. Cost: $300, the best price I could find.

My question for our helpful experts here is: What the heck caused it? All I can recall is that I cracked open the side-rear windows a bit about 5 minutes before it happened. Is this related?

The guy from the glass shop said that sometimes a shorted rear-defroster relay will blow out the rear window. I don't recall my rear-defroster staying on a long time. Has anyone heard of this? Are there any issues with the rear windows?

-Kyle Sullivan





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New Rear window goes bye-bye... [200][1989]
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