Rear window of truck busted out (1 Viewer)

[IC FBGCav]

Noticed the rear window of our truck busted out when I came home today.  After further review, it doesn't look broken into and most of the glass is in the bed of the truck.  It's a 2003 Ford F150 that we hardly ever use.  Can windows spontaneously break?

Not break, shatter. It is completely shattered.  No object found in the truck.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Sand flea eggs hatching.

 

[IC FBGCav]

Sand fleas.

Huh, lol.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

Huh, lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epidemic

 

[gianmarco]

Or bee's and wasp's.

 

[mr. furley]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epidemic

effing !

 

[IC FBGCav]

Or bee's and wasp's.

Would this cause the shattered window to be bowed out a few inches?

 

[gianmarco]

Would this cause the shattered window to be bowed out a few inches?

How could it not?

 

[Limp Ditka]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epidemic

I was once in a band called 5% hoodlum-ism.

 

[IC FBGCav]

How could it not?

I dunno, hence the question.

No sign of insects but seems the most plausible explaination.  Glass was out in the middle but all the outside edges looked messed up too.

 

[IC FBGCav]

https://imgur.com/a/Bmtoi

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

lawnmower + rock FTW

 

[IC FBGCav]

Was fine at lunch, rained all day.  No one cutting grass.

 

[RokNRole]

Trump probably did it.

 

[IC FBGCav]

https://imgur.com/a/q08R1

 

[SWC]

if i had to guess i would probably go with cobra commander that guy is bad news bromigo he was probably just out for a little stroll and thought heh watch this bam im evil and next thing you know busted window happens all the time take that to the bank

 

[IC FBGCav]

Trump probably did it.

Wrong thread.

 

[Dawg Pound 69]

Had you been using the rear window defroster ? It happened with my Toyota 4Runner, while driving. Turns out the fuse of the defroster burned up. Toyota had a recall for it......3 years later.

I would suggest googling to see if the Ford F150 has a similar history.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

No rocks or BBs at the scene?

Maybe an ice-bullet then.

 

[IC FBGCav]

Had you been using the rear window defroster ? It happened with my Toyota 4Runner, while driving. Turns out the fuse of the defroster burned up. Toyota had a recall for it......3 years later.

I would suggest googling to see if the Ford F150 has a similar history.

I saw that when I Google it.  It hasn't be driven in weeks.

 

[IC FBGCav]

No rocks or BBs at the scene?

Maybe an ice-bullet then.

All this would break the glass into the vehicle, not the bed, I think.

 

[OrtonToOlsen]

All this would break the glass into the vehicle, not the bed, I think.

LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, MONK. EXCUSE ME FOR TRYING TO HELP.

 

[IC FBGCav]

LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, MONK. EXCUSE ME FOR TRYING TO HELP.

Touche, sorry brother.

 

[Henry Ford]

When you came home after the hurricane, you mean?

 

[fdas2]

@Otis probably did it

 

[IC FBGCav]

I was an ice bullet, case solved.  Love it, ice bullet.

 

[IC FBGCav]

When you came home after the hurricane, you mean?

No didn't get us.  Rain, no wind or lightning, just rain.

 

[EYLive]

Has there been a drastic change in temperature or barometric pressure in your area in the past week or so?
14 year old glass that's brittle and subjected to low external air pressure may blow out the window due to the relative high air pressure that's built up inside the vehicle over days and weeks.

 

[EYLive]

I have no idea. I just made all that up.

 

[Henry Ford]

Is it a 2010 F150?

 

[IC FBGCav]

I have no idea. I just made all that up.

I thought about this, cloudy, no sun, 60 to 80 today.  We can go from 60 to 100.

 

[IC FBGCav]

Is it a 2010 F150?

2003, one owner 100k.

 

[Henry Ford]

2003, one owner 100k.

Ah.  I'll hazard a guess of a Nickel Sulphide inclusion.

 

[Brony]

i blame Clippy

 

[Bacon is Delicious]

Looks like something broke the rear window glass on your truck.

 

[Quint]

https://imgur.com/a/q08R1

that's a fixed window glass right? not sliding? 

where's the weatherstrip/glass molding? 

 

[IC FBGCav]

that's a fixed window glass right? not sliding? 

where's the weatherstrip/glass molding? 

Not sliding, correct.  I dunno.  Bought it off the lot in 2003.  It is tinted.

No defroster in it.

 

[Henry Ford]

Visteon split off from Ford in the 90s, I believe.  Around 2005, they entered into an agreement where Ford would essentially transfer back a bunch of the glassmaking facilities. My person belief is this was because Visteon was making pretty dirty tempered glass - I've been involved in Nickel Sulphide inclusion litigation using Ford/Visteon window glass from that time period.  All the windows on a building started blowing out 10-15 years or so after it was installed.  Turns out they had NiS inclusion defects all over the place.

(Ford's 2010 F150s had a bunch of rear window blowouts, but I don't know why)

 

[gianmarco]

2003, one owner 100k.

I can't answer this until we know who the owner is.

 

[IC FBGCav]

I can't answer this until we know who the owner is.

Joey bag of donuts.

 

[MindCrime]

@Otis probably did it

Wonder if it's the same guy who messed with Otis' rocks 

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

https://imgur.com/a/q08R1

Interesting. Are you thinking someone pried it?

 

[Henry Ford]

Interesting. Are you thinking someone pried it?

Guess I missed that pic.  Sure looks like it from that close-up, doesn't it?

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Guess I missed that pic.  Sure looks like it from that close-up, doesn't it?

I thought so too until I clicked it just now to super zoom. I submit, counselor, that there is no damage to the outer plastic housing that would have been the leverage point. I also submit that there are several cracks along the edges in that same picture that have a similar shatter pattern. So I think maybe that chunk was just really unlucky, lost its way and fell out. 

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Also, Shatter Pattern seems like a decent band name. Are we still doing band names or nah?

 

[EYLive]

I thought so too until I clicked it just now to super zoom. I submit, counselor, that there is no damage to the outer plastic housing that would have been the leverage point. I also submit that there are several cracks along the edges in that same picture that have a similar shatter pattern. So I think maybe that chunk was just really unlucky, lost its way and fell out. 

How about suction cups?

 

[Henry Ford]

I thought so too until I clicked it just now to super zoom. I submit, counselor, that there is no damage to the outer plastic housing that would have been the leverage point. I also submit that there are several cracks along the edges in that same picture that have a similar shatter pattern. So I think maybe that chunk was just really unlucky, lost its way and fell out. 

Then I'm sticking with an inclusion. 

 

[IC FBGCav]

Wonder if it's the same guy who messed with Otis' rocks 

 

[Quint]

Also, Shatter Pattern seems like a decent band name. Are we still doing band names or nah?

well, it's no GoldenPlane. 

but i like it. 

 

[IC FBGCav]

Interesting. Are you thinking someone pried it?

No, because why?  What's the end game?  Got a stay at home mom that sits on her porch all the time across the street.  In a subdivision in a highly traveled area, even during the day.