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[Rick]

Hmmm I don't seem to be having much joy with glass of late - first, the rear window in the modern-ish shattered a couple of weeks back



and while at Alderhey last week, the switch for the driver's electric window decided to self combust while I was driving along. Then the quarterlight pivot broke on the Cambridge. Grrrrr

RJ
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[bob2]

How did it shatter?
A friend of mine had the same thing happening to his anglia 105E some months ago. Left it covered in the garage for a ccouple of weeks as usual and when he went and uncovered it found the rear screen shattered?
We can't actually understand what happened!!!!

[47p2]

I remember a story of a car which for no apparent reason broke a windscreen whilst sitting in a garage. A new screen was fitted and a few weeks later the same thing happened. Upon further investigation it was found that the edge of the metalwork had a tiny piece of metal that was sticking out further than it should, when the car was in the garage and the sun shone, heating the garage, the metal expanded with the heat which was enough to shatter the screen. The fitter filed the shard off, fitted another screen and there was never a problem again.

Of course modern cars with bonded screens should not suffer this problem but I do remember washing a modern about 3 or 4 years ago when the sun was out and I finished with a crack down the middle of the screen. I put it down to hot glass and cold water
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[pigtin]

Ah, washing cars again. No good will ever come of it, if you leave the dirt for long enough it falls off

[47p2]

[pigtin]

Ooooo!

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