The magical exploding rear windscreen

[weasel]

As I was driving into work today I was stopped at a pedestrian crossing, sat about 5 cars back, with no cars on the other lane (cos the pedestrians were crossing, obv) when for no ****ing reason at all my rear windscreen blows up!
Literally, blows up.
There was a huge pop and the whole thing, from top to bottom, left to right was shattered. I've no idea WTF happened, but I got to spend all day on the phone to various garages and my insurance company trying to figure out who was gonna fix it and how much it was gonna cost. Then I had to drive it down to the only dealership in Northern Ireland, 20 miles from where I work, with a rear windscreen that was held in place by little more than a few bits of dust. Drove the whole way at 20 mile an hour, I got over taken by old people!

Surprisingly I'm not THAT pissed off, more amazed that windscreens can blow up!

 

[jangofettish]

As I was driving into work today I was stopped at a pedestrian crossing, sat about 5 cars back, with no cars on the other lane (cos the pedestrians were crossing, obv) when for no ****ing reason at all my rear windscreen blows up!
Literally, blows up.
There was a huge pop and the whole thing, from top to bottom, left to right was shattered. I've no idea WTF happened, but I got to spend all day on the phone to various garages and my insurance company trying to figure out who was gonna fix it and how much it was gonna cost. Then I had to drive it down to the only dealership in Northern Ireland, 20 miles from where I work, with a rear windscreen that was held in place by little more than a few bits of dust. Drove the whole way at 20 mile an hour, I got over taken by old people!

Surprisingly I'm not THAT pissed off, more amazed that windscreens can blow up!

are you sure no one was shooting at you...! :lol: :wink:

 

[Capetown]

are you sure no one was shooting at you...! :lol: :wink:

Some young girls father no doubt. There weasel, cracked the mystery. :wink:

 

[weasel]

Actually, I was outside a school at the time!
Seriously!

 

[Joe]

Maybe you just got too hot under the collar and BOOM :lol:

 

[weasel]

:lol:

Nah it was a secondary school (16 tops) too young even for me!

 

[Stargeezer]

Maybe some youngster reconized you and startted trowing bricks for never recieving their Candy???

 

[browny]

Did you have any water in the back/boot of your car weasel?thats all I can think it could have been,if not then some little ****er with a gat gun or something maybe jealous of your expensive wheels.

 

[spoons]

could be a cattapult or similar if you were outside a school. I've had the drivers side window go on me on a motorway once, I drove 15 miles with chunks of glass in my ear - but I put that down to running an ancient car

 

[weasel]

I had actually thought of a catapult or a "BB" gun (like a pellet gun). The only thing is if it had been one of them I would have expected there to be a mark where the pellet/stone etc actually hit, and then a load of cracks going out from there. There was nothing the whole windscreen just cracked.

 

[spoons]

I had actually thought of a catapult or a "BB" gun (like a pellet gun). The only thing is if it had been one of them I would have expected there to be a mark where the pellet/stone etc actually hit, and then a load of cracks going out from there. There was nothing the whole windscreen just cracked.

should be a stone or bb on your backseat too

 

[weasel]

Yeah, again **** all!
Really weird

 

[aussiejames]

Crap quality Aston Martin :lol: :wink:

 

[weasel]

Think your right mate!

I spoke to the dealers over here and they said they can get a replacement direct from Aston for £320 +VAT, but the insurance company are insisting I go through Autoglass who say they are paying £1k for one, from a "specialist"? :shock:
So rather than buy direct from the blokes who make the ****ing things they are getting some "specialist" to make it and he's charging them three times the price!?

This whole episode is just getting weirder and weirder! :?

 

[aussiejames]

That is weird, usually insurance companies don't want the dealer involved because they are more expensive :shock:

 

[spoons]

Think your right mate!

I spoke to the dealers over here and they said they can get a replacement direct from Aston for £320 +VAT, but the insurance company are insisting I go through Autoglass who say they are paying £1k for one, from a "specialist"? :shock:
So rather than buy direct from the blokes who make the ****ing things they are getting some "specialist" to make it and he's charging them three times the price!?

This whole episode is just getting weirder and weirder! :?

this specialist wasn't hanging around the school with a bb gun was he :wink:

 

[weasel]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly James!

I've asked them (the insurance company) to go away and check and then get back to me. If they insist on Autograss I'll get the dealer to do it and pay the bill myself. Then claim the massive £75 they said they would give me if I used a non recommended company. The alternative is pay £1K plus labour with the insurance company picking up only the first £300!
Looks like I won't be buying much for a while! :roll:

 

[aussiejames]

So you: pay for it yourself at the dealer and it costs you 300 pounds (roughly) or pay 700 pounds using the insurance companies supplier(who broke the window in the first place :lol: ) :?: Your insurance company sucks :shock:

 

[weasel]

Your ****ing tell me! :roll: :twisted:

 

[rahskil]

****, Weasel....got me worried about the little crack in my windscreen I was gifted when driving my 1991 Sierra Cossie back from Scotland to Germany.

Think it was a french trucker that did it or one helluva big ass foreign fly!

Ahhh....I love my car.