Blow out rear barn door window
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Never seen that before?
Are they factory or aftermarket?
Is there a metal high point on the aperture or an exposed bit of metal on the trim?
Is there a metal high point on the aperture or an exposed bit of metal on the trim?
Blackjacksurf
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My friends van today. Any ideas what happened to yours ?
M18BTE
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Just had this happen to mine. Looks exactly the same was it an aftermarket glass?
It's more often barn door and tailgate windows doing this, i've always found the setting of the glass in the aperture to be the culprit... When they've been installed and the glass is rubbing on the bodywork they can then shatter with changing temps, flex etc
so are we saying. . . . to help others out in future.
that spacers should be used here. . .
to keep an equal gap away from the bodywork?
Inclusions in the glass can cause them to shatter. I remember reading about a B&Q glass patio table recall, due them shattering after going through multiple heat cycles where there was some sort of fault in the glass.
I don’t want to say that is exactly what happened in these circumstances but it’s always looked that way in our experience..: though I’d definitely say it’s the best practice to ensure a gap around the entire window.
A “V nozzle” for applying adhesive before bonding helps as this allows you to space the glass away from the body more than a standard adhesive nozzle. Sitting a bit further away from the body gives you more wiggle room to prevent touching the body of the van!
All aftermarket glass is always a tad harder to set properly than genuine panes too due to the profiling not being quite as good! Barn doors are probably the worst to line up and space properly in my opinion
The other thing with aftermarket glass is that the gaps often cannot be perfectly even if you make the gap between the two panes perfect, it’s a balancing act of gaps
I have some recovered OEM glass (to replace my OEM leaky sliders with fixed) and they have little triangular bits of rubber on them so you cannot push them too far in.
M18BTE
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Fitted a new one over the weekend from camper glass and it come with the v nozzle. straight forward to fit and I have made sure the gap around is as even as I could get it. glass on the other barn door looks to be close to the body work in one corner so I will monitor this.
I know it didnt shatter due to pressure or the weather so I'm guessing there's a good explanation somewhere
I know it didnt shatter due to pressure or the weather so I'm guessing there's a good explanation somewhere
It’s funny this thread popped back up yesterday, just as a lady in a van came by and her window had shattered for no reason!
We got the adhesive etc removed and was having a look and again found the glass has been rubbing on the body of the van, even wearing through the paintwork! New glass supplied by SGI fitted and she’s back off to work this morning
We got the adhesive etc removed and was having a look and again found the glass has been rubbing on the body of the van, even wearing through the paintwork! New glass supplied by SGI fitted and she’s back off to work this morning
