AI Sliding Door Glass

[IIII]

I am a newby to the Forum as of today and find the chatter interesting and informative since we have all had unique experiences with our rigs. I've owned my 2014 Interstate EXT lounge for 2 years and had an interesting situation occur last weekend. At a city speed of 35 MPH my sliding door upper window pane exploded and besides the mess had to be patched in our Oregon for the trip home. I am curious as to whether anyone else has had this issue and who would be best to repair/replace the window. It seems the door needs to be slammed reasonably aggressively to get complete closure. Thanks for any help.

[c21]

Originally Posted by IIII

I am a newby to the Forum as of today and find the chatter interesting and informative since we have all had unique experiences with our rigs. I've owned my 2014 Interstate EXT lounge for 2 years and had an interesting situation occur last weekend. At a city speed of 35 MPH my sliding door upper window pane exploded and besides the mess had to be patched in our Oregon for the trip home. I am curious as to whether anyone else has had this issue and who would be best to repair/replace the window. It seems the door needs to be slammed reasonably aggressively to get complete closure. Thanks for any help.

Sorry for you window problem. When closing the sliding door, try cracking open the passenger door to let some air escape. I find that you can close the slider with less force when doing this.

Good luck,
Bill

[InterBlog]

Welcome to Air Forums. I think "exploding window" might be a new one on us. Now, I've heard of that kind of thing happening with certain trailers, but not Interstates. It happened spontaneously and there was no massive pothole or whatever? Egad.

[Lily&Me]

Hmmm...we had that happen to a driver side window, behind the door, one of those that is there for decoration rather than to see thru.

There was no rock or other impact, a truck passed us on a side road, maybe 50mph, and it just burst.

We taped it with duct tape, took photos, and had it fixed.

Once, in 176,000+ miles.

Maggie

[73shark]

If you're closing from the outside, it helps to place your left hand towards the rear of the door to push in during the final few inches of travel to avoid having to really slam it like one has to if on the inside.

[InterBlog]

Also, regarding the air-tightness and corresponding need-to-slam, we have a supplemental cover above our Fantastic (I recommend the Ultrabreeze, installation info here), and we live in a subtropical part of the country where it is almost never cold, so our Fantastic is almost always left open to some degree. The only time it is closed tightly is for long freeway trips when I don't want to listen to the air flow noise. I never face an air tightness challenge as a result. No need to crack open another door.

[rucos]

Ive been in the glass business for over 40years and you wouldn't necessarily find a rock that flew up. The glass is tempered and sometimes tempered glass will blow for no apparent reason. Its heat hardened glass.
Ive seen inside of patio doors on houses blown and the people have said ...no one in room and nothing unusual going on.
I would think any good auto glass shop would be able to help you.

[IIII]

Thanks. I'm working with my AI dealer and insurance company. Dealer wants to replace the 3 window combination with a new set of windows. I found that the window OEM manufacturer 'CR Laurance' can replace the tempered pane individually. I appreciate the Forum responses.