Strangest window breakage ever

[Cupra_power]

Car has been sat in the garage for a good part of the week, get it out to fill up some go go juice, and lo and behold a lovely 8 to 10 inch crack in the windscreen. How ??? I have no idea, as there is no chip visible etc. Must be some kind of stress crack. but a stress crack on a car sat in the garage ? Wierd

 

[skahigh]

maybe caused by temperature changes? i know a guy who was sat in his mk3 astra doing nothing with the engine off and the back window exploded (literally! exploded!)

 

[Nathanio]

Happens more frequently than you think! Several Leon 2 drivers have experienced this.

 

[no-fear]

how freakin wierd is this.....
My Leon has been parked on my drive for 3 days, waiting for exchange of cash / car with new owner, which should have been tomorrow, I was going to take it to put some petrol in this morning, and a big crack going a quarter of the way across the windscreen....

 

[Feel]

From the right hand side?

Mine did that, and I know two others

 

[albevan]

That's weird! same thing happened to me. went in the house one evening,

came out next morning 12" crack on windscreen. it was just a normal day no frost or extremes of temp

my insurance doesn't cover windscreens so had a nice fat bill i didn't need!

 

[Icecavern]

Common problem with Leons. I've had this with my LC, LCR, Beckys FR, and now my second LCR has the same problem. And I have a work college who had the same thing recently. If the car is under warrenty take it to the dealer and demand it's fixed under warrenty.

Pete

 

[Skorchio]

Has a window ever shattered? or just cracked? This is worrying!!

 

[oldman]

Didn't think they were allowed to shatter any more as people would get injured from the shards of glass.
They normally have fine piece of plastic running through middle of two panes to prevent this, so you can drive a car with 12" crack and all be fine.

 

[Icecavern]

Windscreens are laminated so it won't shatter no.

 

[Mike Green]

Yeah - defo wont shatter as they have a layer of plastic between the 2 sheets of glass to stop this.

My gf car (not seat) this happened, small crack appeared one day out of nowhere. We think it was hit by something from a tree while driving and took a while to develop (i.e. when got much colder).

These cracks can literally be sitting waiting to happen. Common tho, thats why insurance always specifies the excess on replacing!!!