s10 rear window shatters, defect or bad luck

Hi!

I don't think air pressure would cause a problem. My own S-10 has a "vent" in the rear of the cab that seems to be used for pressure equalization purposes. What year is your truck?

I would hazard a guess that the extreme climate changes you mention occuring when the window broke are making parts of your truck's body shift--which in turn exerts pressure on the window and it just breaks up as a result. Is your truck rusty or damaged in some way?

William The Guesser

It's stress that cracks that glass. Either the frame on it gets twisted or is tight or the glass gets scratched near an edge by tools or something like that. If you could frams up a piece of Lexan that could not happen.

We had this happen to the back window on my wife's 02 Windstar when it was about 6 mos old. It was cold as hell at the time, and the window had defroster wires in it. The wife had the car warming up for a while, and then it blew just as my daughter was getting in the car, scared the crap outta her !!!

I chalked it up to the cold and maybe just bad luck, although we have had the car for almost 3 yrs now and no more bad windows.

BTW - We had "Full Glass Coverage" on our insurance policy, but that must be lawyer talk cause it only covers the Windshield Glass.... *&%$^&@# Lawyers...Had to pay the $250 deductible on a $650 piece of glass. :(

JDS

Had it happen to me on my 94 but that was cause i backed into a light poll outside Heinz Field (light pole was painted black,it was night and i wasn't drinking) man the noise that window makes when it explodes. mike

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