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slugzracing · 10-30-2007, 08:39 PM

I was driving home from work on I-70 just a mile or two out of Idaho Springs when one of the windows on my car blew out sending glass across the car and peppering the side of my face and neck. Quite unexpected and I nearly shot out into the median as a result of doing my best hide from the bullets impression

Funny thing is I have no clue what caused it and a quick inspection of the floor and seat does not turn up any rocks, BBs, or cast iron skillets, just tempered glass shards. I was not in traffic and the car was recirculating the heater and the stereo was no louder than normal.
In short it looks like fate knew I could not afford this right now and decided to pull a little prank.

TURTLE · 10-30-2007, 08:48 PM

What did you do?

Garbage bag time!:-(

DARKHORSE · 10-30-2007, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by slugzracing

I was driving home from work on I-70 just a mile or two out of Idaho Springs when one of the windows on my car blew out sending glass across the car and peppering the side of my face and neck. Quite unexpected and I nearly shot out into the median as a result of doing my best hide from the bullets impression

Funny thing is I have no clue what caused it and a quick inspection of the floor and seat does not turn up any rocks, BBs, or cast iron skillets, just tempered glass shards. I was not in traffic and the car was recirculating the heater and the stereo was no louder than normal.
In short it looks like fate knew I could not afford this right now and decided to pull a little prank.

What kind of car is it you have.. I will look and see if we have one in our yard that doesnt need a window..

slobin3d · 10-30-2007, 08:56 PM

tempered glass is kinda funny like that, its always under tension by its design and sometimes some minor flaw that can't be seen will finally give and poof shower of 1/4x1/4 glass pieces. good thing is when it breaks it has very few sharp edges

they don't call it safety glass for nothing

666 · 10-30-2007, 09:01 PM

I had that happen driving a Chevy truck once, no reason, out of nowhere POP!! Worst part it was in Febuary in one of our -10 weeks. BRRRRR!

slowrockr · 10-30-2007, 09:03 PM

yea what year is it slugz? I have a few sources up here, might be able to get ya hooked up on the cheap

slugzracing · 10-30-2007, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by DARKHORSE

What kind of car is it you have.. I will look and see if we have one in our yard that doesnt need a window..

Thanks for the offer but I don't think it would ship very well to Colorado

666, you were driving a chevy. They are known for trying to kill their occupants

Slowrocker, it is a 96 legacy wagon (power windows)

slowrockr · 10-30-2007, 09:08 PM

I'll make a couple calls tomorrow

slugzracing · 10-30-2007, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by slowrockr

I'll make a couple calls tomorrow

I appreciate it. I will be dong the same if I can break away from work for a couple minutes

2JSC · 10-30-2007, 09:13 PM

I just had a window on my hard top get blown out. I climbed in and shut the door and "BOOM!" It blew out... but I know why. Earlier in the day my uncle was driving his backhoe by and it blew out one of the large rear tires and it shot rocks everywhere, actually got one of the house windows too.

joehein · 10-30-2007, 09:27 PM

i know this will happen with the rear window on early fords with rear defrost. the window just kinda shatters.

TOYUTAH · 10-30-2007, 11:09 PM

ya my buddies dads new powerstroke did that on the front pass. window, i told him it was because i blew past him in my chev! haha

STEW<CO> · 10-30-2007, 11:53 PM

Sorry that happened to you slugz.

I got a story for you, I was driving a 95 ford V10 extended van for work, going west through the Eisenhower tunnel. It was a very windy day, the wind could push the van into the other lane every once in a while, hard to control. I was cussing mother nature and telling her to give me her best shot, had a bad attitude that day. As I came out of the tunnel doing around 80 miles an hour down to dillon, I caught a flash out of my left eye, with no time to react, the window blew up in my face, all my car magazines that were on the dash went flying in the air and the stereo flew out of the dash onto the floor. I was able to keep control and brake to a stop at the side of the road.
Lucky I was wearing glasses because the impact was so hard the fragments from the windshield were like dust.
Turns out a c-dot sign on the center median snapped at the base of the post and flew into the front windshield sideways like a knife edge. If the A pillar would have given way it would have cut my head off before I even knew what happened. Lucky me it didn't, the post rammed the A pillar which spun the sign out of the window/dash area, then spun the trunk of the post back into the side of the van, which punctured a basketball size hole into it, then it ricocheted across the highway into the eastbound lanes. No cars were coming east when that happened, lucky them. When I pulled over and got out to figure what the heck happened, a motorist was dragging the sign off the highway.

You should have heard the 911 operator stutter when I told her what happen, it was classic. Needless to say, I don't curse Mother Nature anymore.

YoUnG_vErSiOn · 10-31-2007, 01:07 AM

look for porcelain like a little piece of broken spark plug or something like that. i had an old Rx-7 back in the day with a sub box in plain view. turns out someone wanted more than i, they punched both locks with no success. then proceeded to break the rear bubble window with a tiny piece of spark plug porcelain. no sign of anything when the cops came, then one of them found it and showed it to me, and mentioned about how this was an old trick. i think the sound that the piece makes matches the resonance of the tempered glass and boom! kinda like the opera singer braking the champagne glass with her voice.
or you Just got the trick and no treat.........sucks man especially where you live.i dont think a trash bag will cut it, yo.

Big Mike · 10-31-2007, 08:04 AM

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As I came out of the tunnel doing around 80 miles an hour down to dillon

Hey I used to live right there - in the grey apartments right beside the eastbound lanes of 70.

That's a crazy story dude. You were in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time, how twisted is that? Sounds like it could have been much worse...

crawls2thewalls · 10-31-2007, 03:25 PM

yea, porcelain is weird like that..

it is the harmonic resonance thats created..

just get it wet and the lightest toss will go straight threw a window..

pretty cool, unless your being ripped off that is..

Wrecker · 10-31-2007, 03:31 PM

Dang slugz, that sucks. You just have no luck these past couple of months.

Maybe it has something to do with the mad rally racing we did in Moab, there was definitely quite a few really loud bangs.

EeePee · 10-31-2007, 03:35 PM

Ain't got the nads to try to glue it all back together?

tsaun987 · 10-31-2007, 03:36 PM

About 6 months ago I was driving down I-10 at about 2AM with my driver side window down and a rock flew into my car and hit me directly between the eyes. The rock was no larger than a pebble, but I was doing about 70mph. Needless to say, it split me wide open:-( I had blood all over my shirt when I got home.

slugzracing · 10-31-2007, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by wrecker

Maybe it has something to do with the mad rally racing we did in Moab, there was definitely quite a few really loud bangs.

I still have not fixed the exhaust

That bailing wire is working like a charm!

EEpee, I started to but then I ran out of super glue so I had to dig out my tire glue. That got to the end but there was one little piece missing so it was thrown out:-(

10-30-2007, 08:39 PM	#1
slugzracing I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding from Goodall Posts: 2,518	Things that make you go hmmmm.... I was driving home from work on I-70 just a mile or two out of Idaho Springs when one of the windows on my car blew out sending glass across the car and peppering the side of my face and neck. Quite unexpected and I nearly shot out into the median as a result of doing my best hide from the bullets impression Funny thing is I have no clue what caused it and a quick inspection of the floor and seat does not turn up any rocks, BBs, or cast iron skillets, just tempered glass shards. I was not in traffic and the car was recirculating the heater and the stereo was no louder than normal. In short it looks like fate knew I could not afford this right now and decided to pull a little prank.

10-30-2007, 08:48 PM	#2
TURTLE Gettin’ back on the horse Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Hoonsville Posts: 6,671	What did you do? Garbage bag time!:-(

10-30-2007, 08:56 PM	#4
slobin3d I'm a stupid C U N T! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In the Garage! Posts: 4,307	tempered glass is kinda funny like that, its always under tension by its design and sometimes some minor flaw that can't be seen will finally give and poof shower of 1/4x1/4 glass pieces. good thing is when it breaks it has very few sharp edges they don't call it safety glass for nothing

10-30-2007, 09:01 PM	#5
666 MODERHATER™ Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado Posts: 10,939	I had that happen driving a Chevy truck once, no reason, out of nowhere POP!! Worst part it was in Febuary in one of our -10 weeks. BRRRRR!

10-30-2007, 09:03 PM	#6
slowrockr I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Under the 4444 Posts: 2,345	yea what year is it slugz? I have a few sources up here, might be able to get ya hooked up on the cheap

10-30-2007, 09:08 PM	#8
slowrockr I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Under the 4444 Posts: 2,345	I'll make a couple calls tomorrow

10-30-2007, 09:13 PM	#10
2JSC I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: FOUR 8 OH Posts: 4,913	I just had a window on my hard top get blown out. I climbed in and shut the door and "BOOM!" It blew out... but I know why. Earlier in the day my uncle was driving his backhoe by and it blew out one of the large rear tires and it shot rocks everywhere, actually got one of the house windows too.

10-30-2007, 09:27 PM	#11
joehein Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: isanti, mn Posts: 177	i know this will happen with the rear window on early fords with rear defrost. the window just kinda shatters.

10-30-2007, 11:09 PM	#12
TOYUTAH Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: northern utah Posts: 479	ya my buddies dads new powerstroke did that on the front pass. window, i told him it was because i blew past him in my chev! haha

10-30-2007, 11:53 PM	#13
STEW<CO> Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Man Cave! Posts: 892	Sorry that happened to you slugz. I got a story for you, I was driving a 95 ford V10 extended van for work, going west through the Eisenhower tunnel. It was a very windy day, the wind could push the van into the other lane every once in a while, hard to control. I was cussing mother nature and telling her to give me her best shot, had a bad attitude that day. As I came out of the tunnel doing around 80 miles an hour down to dillon, I caught a flash out of my left eye, with no time to react, the window blew up in my face, all my car magazines that were on the dash went flying in the air and the stereo flew out of the dash onto the floor. I was able to keep control and brake to a stop at the side of the road. Lucky I was wearing glasses because the impact was so hard the fragments from the windshield were like dust. Turns out a c-dot sign on the center median snapped at the base of the post and flew into the front windshield sideways like a knife edge. If the A pillar would have given way it would have cut my head off before I even knew what happened. Lucky me it didn't, the post rammed the A pillar which spun the sign out of the window/dash area, then spun the trunk of the post back into the side of the van, which punctured a basketball size hole into it, then it ricocheted across the highway into the eastbound lanes. No cars were coming east when that happened, lucky them. When I pulled over and got out to figure what the heck happened, a motorist was dragging the sign off the highway. You should have heard the 911 operator stutter when I told her what happen, it was classic. Needless to say, I don't curse Mother Nature anymore.

10-31-2007, 01:07 AM	#14
YoUnG_vErSiOn REST IN ALOHA CHIP Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: * Posts: 3,549	look for porcelain like a little piece of broken spark plug or something like that. i had an old Rx-7 back in the day with a sub box in plain view. turns out someone wanted more than i, they punched both locks with no success. then proceeded to break the rear bubble window with a tiny piece of spark plug porcelain. no sign of anything when the cops came, then one of them found it and showed it to me, and mentioned about how this was an old trick. i think the sound that the piece makes matches the resonance of the tempered glass and boom! kinda like the opera singer braking the champagne glass with her voice. or you Just got the trick and no treat.........sucks man especially where you live.i dont think a trash bag will cut it, yo.

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10-31-2007, 03:25 PM	#16
crawls2thewalls Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NOR*CAL Posts: 476	yea, porcelain is weird like that.. it is the harmonic resonance thats created.. just get it wet and the lightest toss will go straight threw a window.. pretty cool, unless your being ripped off that is..

10-31-2007, 03:31 PM	#17
Wrecker [HOONIGAN] Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Grand Junction Posts: 4,269	Dang slugz, that sucks. You just have no luck these past couple of months. Maybe it has something to do with the mad rally racing we did in Moab, there was definitely quite a few really loud bangs.

10-31-2007, 03:35 PM	#18
EeePee MODERATOR™ Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 18,928	Ain't got the nads to try to glue it all back together?

10-31-2007, 03:36 PM	#19
tsaun987 Quarry Creeper Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Katy, TX Posts: 482	About 6 months ago I was driving down I-10 at about 2AM with my driver side window down and a rock flew into my car and hit me directly between the eyes. The rock was no larger than a pebble, but I was doing about 70mph. Needless to say, it split me wide open:-( I had blood all over my shirt when I got home.

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