It was parked in a commercial car park at the airport in a far corner with no passing traffic. Just before Xmas the rear windscreen on my nugget car was shattered.A $500 Rock from the mower man!.Any chance it was a stone? Apparently it happens regularly, they must sell to many replacements to warrant redesigning it.ĭoes anyone know if this happen with other brands? I can understand if towing but this was parked on this occasion. Keep your locks, struts and brake light (which is double sided taped on) if possible from your broken window as they don't come included. Anyway, if you are lucky enough to have this happen to you, a replacement window in Darwin is $330, $110 fitting.
Flexiglass says the tinted safety glass provides comfort and style by reducing glare into the canopy while the premium felt lined interior finish provides a original vehicle build feel. I've seen this issue elsewhere on here but it was on someone's build thread. Just like most of the Flexiglass range, the canopy body is constructed using fiberglass, meaning a tough built ute canopy, with a smooth colour coded finish. It was pretty hot today in Darwin followed by heavy showers so maybe it had been through 1 too many changes in temperature. The canopy has been on for about 4 years and 65,000km, it's done a few Kimberley trips and half a lap of Oz. No signs of 3rd party impact, most of the glass and rubber seals were on the ground, not in the tub, and I park at least 100m away from anyone else these days as I have enough dents and scratches from others. There is a lot of information posted on the web under nickel sulphide inclusion in toughened glass if you wish to read more.Just knocked off work and got to the truck to see the rear canopy window blown to smithereens. They are ideal replacements for Suspa part C16-09903. The gas struts measure 300mm between centres when the canopy is in the open position and the gas struts are fully extended.
FLEXIGLASS CANOPY WINDOW WINDOWS
I spent much of my later career as the technical executive for a company in the window and glass industry. A new PAIR of gas struts, most commonly used for the SIDE windows of your Flexiglass Canopy. Toughened glass is much stronger than laminated particularly where the edges are unframed where it must be used. Usually these go off during manufacture but the odd one still gets through to the end user.
These days, manufacturers have a couple of things they can do such as heat soaking which limits the the percentage to 4 panels in 100. If one of the stones happen to be on the boundary between the two layers, then the regeneration can cause the glass to explode by cracking the outer layer releasing the energy of the inner layer. Toughened glass has two layers, an outer which is exerting force inwards and an inner layer exerting force outwards. When glass is toughened, the nickel sulphide microscopic stones move to an active state and can regenerate. Toughened glass can spontaneously break from nickel sulphide stone inclusion.Īll glass has a certain amount of nickel sulphide in its composition.
FLEXIGLASS CANOPY WINDOW FREE
The windows in the Flexiglass canopies are made from toughened glass. Flexiglass Central Locking Rear Window Canopy T-Handle Lock for Ute Canopy Rear Window Free Postage Australia Wide - Express Post Option 5.00 Fit Most. So if you don't have windscreen replacement on your policy it may be a good idea to look into it. In our case we think it happened when the canopy was removed for repairs to the rear of the ute.įlexiglass have looked after us with a really good price (below excess $) for replacement as we unfortunately had only just replaced the front windscreen a few weeks earlier after our trip to Cape Tribulation It seems that all that holds the window in place is the hinges which attach directly to the glass and any twisting or flexing in the canopy will cause the tension in the glass to weaken, like a stone on the old style windows before they were laminate. But what I found out was that if you have an insurance policy that covers you for a new windscreen it will probably cover you for the canopy glass as well, as they are not cheap to replace it may be a good idea to check you insurance policy. This is apparently not an unusual occurrence for any of the fibreglass canopies. I have just had the rear window on my Flexiglass Canopy literally explode while sitting in the shade (glad we were not away from home).
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