Broken window with dead battery
 

So my car ran completely dead last night and had to be towed to the yard. Battery is so dead the starter won't go. When I went to the shop today, the small triangular a piLlar window was smashed. The shop said it must have been from the window not automatically lower by that half inch, since the battery was dead. Does this actually happen? The windows will blow out when the doors are closed with a dead battery? Or is this just the shop trying to scam me out of a window?

I'm so confused

This shop is talking out of their ass. The small window is fixed and does not raise or lower.

It also won't blow out the window to close without rolling down, otherwise cars with fully framed windows that are closed would be shattering them left and right. This is handled by hidden vents that allow the cabin pressure to equalize with the external air pressure, and the worst that would happen if these didn't exist is the door won't close fully due to the air pressure pushing it back open.

My bet? Someone smashed the window to open the door because they didn't think through their actions and options.

In the end, the car was under their care, and the shop should foot the bill. Don't take possession of the car until you've documented the damage. If the shop is fighting back, time to file a police report and an insurance claim and let them duke it out with the shop's insurance.

^+1. the main windows only drop a 1/2" to further reduce the internal cabin pressures to make it even easier to close the doors--there is no clearance issue. there is absolutely no possible way that a dead battery would cause a window to break.

but slamming the doors like a cocaine-addled orangutan would pose a risk of breaking the main glass. there's a few documented cases of people doing that...

Worst battery window design ever!

If you end up needing a replacement glass...I have a couple.

It did not break on it's own...someone did it, probably to open the door.

You are a gentleman and scholar , thanks for being generous for peeps :)


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It's raining right now and later today it'll turn to freezing rain, then heaps of snow. My windows will be frozen like a hundred other times every winter. Man do the windows on this car like to freeze at the slightest hint of ice.

They've never broken before, and they won't break today.

And as was said, that piece doesn't move anyway, so you were unlucky and landed on a bunch of asshat mechanics.

Yes, but now without a window getting in the way he should be able to see his brake pads...

I think the window drained the battery, and when the battery ran dry it cracked the window glass. When trying to remove said cracked glass, the pressure sucked the battery into the car, which shattered the rest of the glass.

Did you check your tire pressures before the last time trying to put the windows down? Makes sure to get your injectors flow tested to be certain this won't continue to happen.

Another double post. Sorry!

Ok either I’m litt as fuck or this does not make sense . How the hell does a dead battery break a window . I have never experienced this and think they busted your window to get in the ride . No window just breaks due to it being cold or battery dying ....


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Hey, how did this end up working out?

Based on the OP's inquiry, he was probably convinced that the shop did nothing wrong. Whoever engineered the car didn't think about what happens when you battery dies. So many people must bust their windows on the daily during cold weather when they're frozen shut!