Side Window Crack

sbc240z

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A little background, 2004 4runner, no previous accidents or structural damage. I'm stationed in south GA so it's hot but nothing extreme. Not that this should matter but the 4runner is more of a family/weekend vehicle not our daily driver, nor do I take it offroad or through anything more extreme than the speed bumps on base.

Having said that I'm driving down the road last week and I hear a pop, I look over and there is a crack on my driver window going from the side mirror to the bottom center of the glass.

My first thought was the a/c was blowing on the hot window, nope that vent was pointed at me not the glass. The glass itself was not in direct sunlight and was only "warm" to the touch. My arm was not propped against the glass either which shouldn't matter even if I was forcibly pressing against the glass.


Fast forward to today and I get back from the grocery store and notice that my front passenger glass has the exact same crack.

Has anyone heard of this? My mind is going to structural failure of some sort but the truck is solid, no rust, no previous accidents, no cracks. Even if the frame were somehow collapsing I think I would notice it in the doors opening/closing before it got to the point of cracking glass.
 
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Insurance says safelite wants $210 per window and I have a $500 deductible so no help there. Although I didn't think to ask if the additional cost of tinting new glass would be covered, I'll need to find out about that tomorrow.

Having little luck on ebay finding OEM glass, lots of "chinese" glass on ebay and I can't tell the origin of the glass on rock auto ($75) as it just says "various mfr".

I'm still baffled by what's going on here, took a second more thorough look under the truck today and everything is solid not that it would matter since the door frame surrounds the glass and having two defective window regulators/tracks/door frame seems to be too much of a coincidence.

I'm starting to wonder if (since the crack is about center of the side view mirror) the sun is bouncing off of the mirror and putting extra heat on the side glass.

In the meantime I'll keep hunting ebay for some OEM glass . . .
 

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