Hey guys, been trawling through the forums for a while, thought this would be worth sharing.

Sometime between saturday night and sunday morning, the driver's side window has completely shattered. Car had been sitting in the carport overnight so I'm dumbfounded as to how this happened. Coincidently melbourne had the coldest morning so for now I'll be blaming that and just sheer bad luck for this happening...

http://i62.tinypic.com/28iw9ec.jpg

Sounds strange...and why just that window?

no impact marks ?

Hmm, me reckon someone tried to break in. Can you have a closer look at the seal that is circled in red. The glass break pattern looks like someone tried to jimmy the glass from that location.


http://i856.photobucket.com/albums/ab124/vbednikov/Accident/28iw9ec_zpsr3viafqh.jpg

On the Facebook 380 group there were others that experienced the same thing....

Took another photo before I got it replaced, not sure if any more clues here
http://i58.tinypic.com/11mc60p.jpg
O'brien couldn't identify a focal point for the smash, lucky I had window cover so was able to get it replaced and tinted. Nothing too special about my 380 but will be listening for any footsteps late at night...
http://i62.tinypic.com/211ugs7.jpg


On the Facebook 380 group there were others that experienced the same thing....
I'll check that out, would be interesting to find out other possible causes

I wonder if you drove the car late night with the heater on high and directed towards you/drivers window, then if a particualrly cold night chilling the window quickly once you left it causing sufficient stress to shatter it. Also if stressed by a temp differential it might not take much of a knock to cause it to shatter.

dbl post

Mine lives outside - was certainly iced over the next morning, but no breakage...