Something strange is going on in Eastern Europe - Russia.

The rear window suddenly cracks, looks like there is a problem with moisture, frosted water in low temperature areas.
Untill now there are 4 cases known.









Source: https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic82104.html

 

Holy cow! That's terrible... how cold was it?

Matt

 

I have had that happen in an aircraft, but not a car. It happened when I was on a carrier and the F-14 on the cat went to burner and the leakage around the JBD caused my windscreen to literally explode. I had just turned the windshield heat on as we where just to the north of Iceland. Did you have the defrost on? It looks like it is propagated from the center bottom on the pic, what's there?

 

It happened to me once when we lived in Colorado. Drive out of my (relatively) warm garage in my Acura MDX and headed to DIA. It was -12F (-24C). No other cars about and there was a loud bang and the rear window cracked. I thought it was a gun shot at first but no holes in the glass. I could only deduce at the time it must have been the large temperature swing. I definitely would have had the heating element on at the time.

I also saw a YouTube video of someone with a Defender in the outback pulling a motorcycle trailer. Similar thing happened—loud bang and the rear window shattered into a million pieces. Turned out that a stone kicked-up by the rear wheel hit the trailer and bounced back into the window.

 

happened to me on my f-14 too a few times.

 

It is strange that the AD does not recognize that this incident is covered by the warranty

 

Are these trucks being driven close to the border with Ukraine?

 

Happened to me on an F-22 recently.

 

I wasn't flying F-14's then, but rather the lowly Super COD. We were large, so we kind of peaked over the JBD. We shot off #3, to get us off the deck, we got in their way. I was pissed since we had to spend the night on the boat vice Scotland. I did get to fly F-14'S Later as an AEDO (aviation engineering duty officer) and a whole lot of other aircraft and helicopters. We where re-working the F-14's picketing them and putting them in bags for later (turns out never). Since I can't play with the Defender (Dealer still needs yet another cable) I was pulling the engine in the 206H for inspection. Nice thing about being an AEDO is you can get your engineer/inspector rating from the FAA when you leave. So I can work on my own aircraft and inspect them as well.

As far as bursting glass, folks in Phoenix get large cracks from the heat instead of the cold and blasting the AC. It is the reverse effect.

The POS I was flying that day, it had one of the engines blow and catch on fire up on me earlier in the year, kind of why I got the AEDO job good at flying e'ffing POS's:

 

Definitely not, they don't have the letter Z on the body