>>oik with air rifle?.........not unheard of
Highly unlikely in this car park. To hit the car rear window the he angle required would have put the offender in the open, the primary school playing field. The only trees that could have offered cover would have been over 100 metres away. Also the pellet would have to pass through a 2 metre high chain link fence at an oblique angle, again making this unlikely.
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i'm not going to give up you know...........how about a bird dropping a heavy nut or similar
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There was a time, in the olden days, when heated rear windows were on a 10 minute timer. Press to switch on - if you still need it after 10 minutes press again!
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Olden days? My Audi still has this feature.
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And the Mondeo has timed heating for windscreen and rear window.
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mine still does, although it may be a bit longer than 10 mins
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>>oik with air rifle?.........not unheard of Highly unlikely in this car park.
What about the fellow on the grassy knoll who mysteriously disappeared shortly after the incident?
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I'd stick with the heater theory.
What can happen is that the terminal where the wiring fixes to the glass becomes loose, and arcing happens, this causes a hot spot and eventually it pops.
Another theory is the screen was hit by a stone or similar, but not hard enough to break it, but has damaged the surface. Then with the heater being switched on the glass warms and that is the point where the stone damage eventually does break the glass.
Unfortunatly the way toughened glass breaks and fall into the car/on the floor it's hard to see the point where the glass has broken from. If it shatters but stays in one piece you can see a "fan" type of effect from the point where the glass broke.
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Unfortunatly the way toughened glass breaks and fall into the car/on the floor it's hard to see the point where the glass has broken from. If it shatters but stays in one piece you can see a "fan" type of effect from the point where the glass broke.
The strange thing was only an area of about about 150x150mm (4x4") dropped, this I assume was where impact took place. The rest remained in place but part was bulging outward as though there might have been some pressure within the car, or movement corresponding to impact damage in another area.
I still believe it may have been a stone expelled from under a tyre. Still very puzzling as I have never seen anything like it before.
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colder today and quite possibly the contractions of the glass causing stress
or as said the birds of south africa going back to the plains to see the wilderbeast and one of them dropped a well wrapped xmas present?
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>>What can happen is that the terminal where the wireing fixes to the glass becomes loose, and arcing happens, this causes a hot spot and eventually it pops.
>>Another theory is the screen was hit by a stone or similar, but not hard enough to break it, but has damaged the surface. Then with the heater being switched on the glass warms and that is the piont where the stone damges eventually does break the glass.
I do not know if the heater had been used, but the car had not been restarted, so I doubt if a hot spot would have developed with the ignition switched off. The car had not been driven far, probably only half a mile, and then she was planning to drive to work as usual.
Hopefully a windscreen service should be able to source and fit a new glass today. As it stands the car is not secure or watertight.
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It doesn't take much to break one, when I was about nine, a freind through some pea gravel, and one bounced off a lampost and hit a rear cavalier window shattering it, it stayed in place with cubed glass dropping into a hole bit by bit.
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I still think it was a lone gunman, in the pay of the mafia.
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It is very common at this time of the year.
It was a small meteorite that made it throught the earths atmosphere. Unfourtunately it was so hot it melted after impact so the miscreant is no longer visible.
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Miraculously, without burning a hole in the back seat of the car or setting it on fire.
Some frozen urine from a passing airliner perhaps?
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Miraculously, without burning a hole in the back seat of the car or setting it on fire.
Now dont try and make me look silly Lud, you know it bounced off the screen, away from the car, on to the ground and left no more that a small pile of ash.
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