Just went outside to go to college and found this...

typk · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:01

Some stupid **** has decided to smash my rear windscreen.
Called the insurance who have referred me to a windscreen company and i should have it replaced by 13:00.
I’m so annoyed!

Pics:

Sorry my car is dirty.

Nothing was taken it seems it was just an act of vandalism.

rainbow6six · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:03

NO SWEARING

TaKeN · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:03

Any evidence of what they hit it with? Is that 'boot spoiler' usualy stuck to the glass?

peterattheboro · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:03

Seems someone shares my hatred of Saxos

Unlucky though fella.

Firestar_3x · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:05

Glass could have shattered by itself.

kaiowas · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:05

Or maybe it just went pop.

Happens on hatches occasionally due to the stresses induced by slamming the hatch all the time. Thermal stresses at this time of year won't help either. My stepdads Astra did it a couple of years back in a supermarket car park whilst he was walking back towards it from the shop.

typk · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:05

peterattheboro said:
Seems someone shares my hatred of Saxos

Unlucky though fella.

Lol they are quite bad but still...

TaKeN said:
Any evidence of what they hit it with? Is that 'boot spoiler' usualy stuck to the glass?

No evidence of what was used.

Yes the spoiler is usualy stuck to the glass :S

kaiowas said:
Or maybe it just went pop.

Happens on hatches occasionally due to the stresses induced by slamming the hatch all the time. Thermal stresses at this time of year won't help either. My stepdads Astra did it a couple of years back in a supermarket car park whilst he was walking back towards it from the shop.

I can see by the shape of the smash that it was hit on a certain point. as the cracks circle the centre left side.

Westyfield2 · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:11

As one Saxo owner to another.... I feel your pain bro.

Reckon they might have smashed it to get the spoiler for their 1.0 Saxo of chav?

TaKeN · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:11

If the spoiler was originally stuck to the glass, then some twerp might have been trying to get it off and broke the glass..

It going bang on its own is also a possibility

EDIT - ^^ Beaten to it.

peterattheboro · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:11

Tizzer said:
I can see by the shape of the smash that it was hit on a certain point. as the cracks circle the centre left side.

I still wouldn't rule it out.

This happened to a neighbours Clio a couple of years ago and we thought it had been vandalised.

typk · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:11

Westyfield2 said:
As one Saxo owner to another.... I feel your pain bro.

Reckon they might have smashed it to get the spoiler for their 1.0 Saxo of chav?

spoiler is still there

just not in place.

typk · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:13

peterattheboro said:
I still wouldn't rule it out.

This happened to a neighbours Clio a couple of years ago and we thought it had been vandalised.

Oh. You never know really. I didnt know that could happen though, any reason on why it would? Surly it must have been weakened already for it to just shatter?

Wicksta · 11 Nov 2009 at 09:51

Normally vandalism would involve them chucking something through the screen rather than hitting it with something, I'm subscribing to the theory it shattered itself as well. Imagine that happening while you were driving, scary.

BenjiSayers · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:09

On a lighter note if you look at the outlined of the where the glass has shattered it looks like the profile view of a horse/donkey.

(on the first pic anyway)

Dolph · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:11

BenjiSayers said:
On a lighter note if you look at the outlined of the where the glass has shattered it looks like the profile view of a horse/donkey. (on the first pic anyway)

Lol, so it does

Sorry to hear about the issue, always sucks when things like that happen

PiKe · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:25

I'd prefer to subscribe to the theory it shattered by itself...

Janesy B · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:27

Can't believe that spoiler is attached to the glass :/

typk · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:32

Janesy B said:
Can't believe that spoiler is attached to the glass :/

nor can i

kefkef · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:42

On the Saxo VTS i had many moons ago, the spoiler wasn't glued to the glass, the glass had 2 cut-outs in the top corners of the rear screen for the spolier to be fitted through. Only know this as i had exactly the same thing happen as this, but they half-inched the spolier. Guy from Auto-glass offered me the choice of the 2 differen't types of rear screen, cut-outs or solid screen. As the cost of the rear spolier was a few hundred quid from Citroen i didn't bother replacing it.

mjt · 11 Nov 2009 at 10:48

unlucky!
but if there's no foreign object on the parcel shelf, i'd go with it smashing by itself

unless someone already took the donkey's head