Woke up to a nasty surprise: The mysterious case of my shattered back window glass...
I live in the 20-inches-of-snow-covered North-East. For the last few days, my car (2007 Corolla CE) which has been parked on the public streets has been covered in some snow. For the last few days, I go out for some exercise and I would always go take a look at how much the snow has melted around the car.
Well, this morning, I take a look and the glass in the rear has been shattered!!
the mystery is that it looks "pristine" as though it had been completely untouched by any blunt object...
this is more what it looks like, all over:
rather than this:
Here's the question: How do you think this could've happened? Any theories?
I'll offer mine first: Temperature. or rather differences in temperature. But then, this makes almost no sense, since the greatest differential in temperature during the last few days and nights of this blizzard has been about 10 degreees. plus, this has never happened before and temperature has varied wildly. i'm afraid I'll never find out, but i'll pretend that it wasn't a nasty neighbor or a vandalous (word?) stranger.
Do you have any suggestions for how to get the glass replaced, any tips about how to find a place?
UPDATE: a clarification--"shatttered" is probably the wrong word to use. It didn't shatter so much as... visible cracks pervading the entire glass, just like in the first pic. And the glass appears to be just like the front windwhield type, a "sticky" type of glass that does not shatter..
I live in the 20-inches-of-snow-covered North-East. For the last few days, my car (2007 Corolla CE) which has been parked on the public streets has been covered in some snow. For the last few days, I go out for some exercise and I would always go take a look at how much the snow has melted around the car.
Well, this morning, I take a look and the glass in the rear has been shattered!!
the mystery is that it looks "pristine" as though it had been completely untouched by any blunt object...
this is more what it looks like, all over:
rather than this:
Here's the question: How do you think this could've happened? Any theories?
I'll offer mine first: Temperature. or rather differences in temperature. But then, this makes almost no sense, since the greatest differential in temperature during the last few days and nights of this blizzard has been about 10 degreees. plus, this has never happened before and temperature has varied wildly. i'm afraid I'll never find out, but i'll pretend that it wasn't a nasty neighbor or a vandalous (word?) stranger.
Do you have any suggestions for how to get the glass replaced, any tips about how to find a place?
UPDATE: a clarification--"shatttered" is probably the wrong word to use. It didn't shatter so much as... visible cracks pervading the entire glass, just like in the first pic. And the glass appears to be just like the front windwhield type, a "sticky" type of glass that does not shatter..
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