Jgolden314

OK So I am finishing up dinner, and start to walk out into the garage to wash the IROC. Before i open the door, I hear glass smashing.

I look outside only to see my drivers side T-TOP is no more.
My dad was outside sitting on his tailgate, and he said nothing touched it, just exploded everywhere..... So the question (s) i have, are

Has this happened to anyone else?
What could cause a t top to just shatter everwhere, when nothing hit it?


Damn I am pissed off..........well gonna go start cleaning it up.....again.

Worst day ever.

Kandied91z

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alot of cars have had problems today....i'm thinking about going to bed early.

4 guys had problems in my area and now this....run for the hills the world is coming to an end.

:lala:

4mul8r

Bullet?

Jgolden314

i forgot to mention........it appears that the glass didnt "cave" in, it looks like it was blown from the underside.

there was glass behind the car, on the hatch, paint, and on the side.....

Jgolden314

no it wasnt a bullet, My dad was sitting like 10 ft from the car....and it is in the garage, i dont see any way for a bullet to hit it in the way it shattered.......the gun would have had to have been below the car, and go through the windshield.....

im stumped.

Flyersman29

i've heard sometimes if the inside of your car gets too hot... glass will break... not sure how true that might be...

Jgolden314

my car sits in the garage, with the windows down.....hasnt been out in awhile. I know it was not vandalism...because my dad was out there, and two vehicles in front of the camaro in the driveway.......one is a big 4x4.


looks like i have ebay shopping to do.

srdynamics1

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Great, now I have to live in fear of my TTops, oh wait. lexan.

Was it cracked, even little hair lines, before it exploded.

Jgolden314

nope.........the glass was in GREAT condition.

Just weird.

WildFire

Did you have a bottle of pop in your car? Sometimes a loose cap on a plastic bottle of coke/pepsi can sometimes get warm enough to put pressure on the cap.. and pop the cap. not quite sure.. but if there was enough pressure it could have caused the upward shattering effect.


maybe my physics class was too boring. Dont know... could be a start in the right direction.

Something in the car had to Let go. and smash against that window, Its not like there is much pressure on that window, or is there?


Obviously the tops are fastened in (not sure how because I dont own a t-top and havent seen any) but maybe the top wasn't seated 100% properly and when you clamped it in, it may have put too much pressure on the window.. and it just then finally gave in and shattered.


Dont know. just some guesses.. maybe

Jgolden314

nope there was nothing in the car.....besides the remote to my cd player......it is not my DD so i hardly ever have anything in it.

Spdfrk1990

You have a ghost in your camaro.

nick418

r u sure your dad didnt do it, lol

Jgolden314

no kidding, maybe i should sell this and buy a TA..... lol

Jgolden314

my dad likes the car more than i do.

Dingley

iTrader: (1)

i think you should ask your dad again for what "exactly" happened again. lol.. just a suggestion

Jgolden314

my mom was out there too, they had nothing to do with it.

8IROC8

Maybe the last time you clamped them in they got a little twisted? I don't have a t-top and i'm not sure how they go in, but maybe they were a litle twisted when they went in, and finally gave out. Hope I helped...

thirdgen88

One time, I left a half empty can of R134A in the back of my old firebird in July, with windows up in the sun. Ummm... I thought somebody fired a shotgun when I heard it. Thankfully it managed to not break anything... I think you have a ghost too..

Jgolden314

yeah i am sure its a ghost too lol

my dad is still out there cussing lol

WildFire

haha maybe he just plain *Farted* and blew your top off....



LOL. Childish I know but funny all the same

kid camaro

iTrader: (1)

there was a guy at work who had a couple cans of silly string on his seat. it got really hot and they blew up and busted his window. not to mention that he had silly string all over the inside of his car.

87z28camaro

if your dad says he saw nothing and nothing hit it or anything, than i'd bet that you did not have ur t-top in right and it applied pressure and over time just gave out, kinda like if your holding a lightbulb in ur hand and you apply pressure, it will shatter, BTW please do not try that, im just stating a point haha,

CaysE

Had to be pressure of some sort to blow upwards like that. Someone's not telling the whole story here, whether it's your parents or yourself.

I have heard of this happening with the rear hatch, but again, that was heat related and you say you were parked in the garage. Pressure only comes in three flavors: heat, vaccuum, or stress. Vaccuum is out of the question if the windows were down.

So either the ttop was seated incorrectly or it was caused by temperature changes. This is all assuming, of course, that we're getting the whole story.

Jgolden314

I have had the car since i was 15, and i am pretty sure i had the top in correctly ( it was locked) . But anything can happen.

nolanr0413

good reason to have a hardtop.

Midnight Sun

I had an old lightbulb once. And my buddies and myself thought it would be cool to throw into the neighbors tree, cause they were outside, and we thought the popping noise would give them a nice friendly scare. I threw it as hard as I could, and it bounched off the tree and smacked me in the forhead. Good times.


That is odd about your t-tops though man. Maybe check your struts to the trunk. If the car was in there and one of the struts all the sudden gave out and let out a bunch of pressure that was previously bottled up, it might of caused a weak little (invisible crack) to completely blow.