Mysterious spontaneous Window Explosion - Toyota Yaris Forums

starlet81 · 07-04-2010, 12:34 PM

I was riding in the rear set of a taxicab in Singapore some years ago on the way to the airport -- I think it was a Nissan Bluebird. It was still dark (pre-dawn) and raining. Suddenly, the entire windshield shattered with a loud bang -- I thought someone must have thrown a brick at us. The cab driver coolly pulled over and wrapped his hand with a cloth, punched a hole in the windshield, and continued driving. He got us to the airport on time.

The cab driver explained that the windshields had been popping in quite a few of their cabs of that make & model, and that the manufacturer had diagnosed it as a fit issue; the glass was made slightly too large for the frame. Rather than replace them all at once, they were just driving them until they popped, then replacing.

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07-04-2010, 12:34 PM	#27
starlet81 I've made a post! Drives: 2008 Yaris S 3-door Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Sunnyvale, California Posts: 1	I was riding in the rear set of a taxicab in Singapore some years ago on the way to the airport -- I think it was a Nissan Bluebird. It was still dark (pre-dawn) and raining. Suddenly, the entire windshield shattered with a loud bang -- I thought someone must have thrown a brick at us. The cab driver coolly pulled over and wrapped his hand with a cloth, punched a hole in the windshield, and continued driving. He got us to the airport on time. The cab driver explained that the windshields had been popping in quite a few of their cabs of that make & model, and that the manufacturer had diagnosed it as a fit issue; the glass was made slightly too large for the frame. Rather than replace them all at once, they were just driving them until they popped, then replacing.