Sky View and Sunroof Blow out.
03-17-2004, 12:47 PM
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Sky View and Sunroof Blow out.
Recently when a 04 Maxima SE Was rented with a skyview roof, The Skyview roof glass BLEW OUT! I believe there are 3 other claims of people having the same problem, 2 with the Sky view and 1 with the regular sunroof. When the glass blows (Happend at 65mph) Glass flies allover and the interior if this car was filled with glass in the back seat. I would think if the covers for the windows were closed, glass would of smacked the cars behind the Maxima on the highway where the Glass blew out. If someone was in the backseat of this car when the glass broke they would of definety been injured.
Has anyone else had this problem? It isnt my car (It was the renter Co's) so Im just wondering. The car had 5k on it when the window Blew up.
Has anyone else had this problem? It isnt my car (It was the renter Co's) so Im just wondering. The car had 5k on it when the window Blew up.
03-17-2004, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by 92Bbody
Recently when a 04 Maxima SE Was rented with a skyview roof, The Skyview roof glass BLEW OUT! I believe there are 3 other claims of people having the same problem, 2 with the Sky view and 1 with the regular sunroof. When the glass blows (Happend at 65mph) Glass flies allover and the interior if this car was filled with glass in the back seat. I would think if the covers for the windows were closed, glass would of smacked the cars behind the Maxima on the highway where the Glass blew out. If someone was in the backseat of this car when the glass broke they would of definety been injured.
Has anyone else had this problem? It isnt my car (It was the renter Co's) so Im just wondering. The car had 5k on it when the window Blew up.
Has anyone else had this problem? It isnt my car (It was the renter Co's) so Im just wondering. The car had 5k on it when the window Blew up.
Wonder why my suspicious side perks up when a guy posts 1 time and it's a horror story about the Max? (Just me, I guess.)
But, tell me ... isn't the sunroof (and skyview) required to be made of safety glass? And although safety glass can, under certain circumstances, come apart into separate pieces, isn't it designed not to? I mean, it can "shatter", but it all stays together in most cases.
Oh, well.
Mike
03-17-2004, 10:56 PM
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Wonder why my suspicious side perks up when a guy posts 1 time and it's a horror story about the Max? (Just me, I guess.)
But, tell me ... isn't the sunroof (and skyview) required to be made of safety glass? And although safety glass can, under certain circumstances, come apart into separate pieces, isn't it designed not to? I mean, it can "shatter", but it all stays together in most cases.
Oh, well.
Mike
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Umm.... I personally liked the car and the performace was great. I was JUST wondering if anyone else had this happen to there maxima. Just an heads up.
The glass did shatter, but also 6 inch chunks of glass were present. As a result the deck lid was scratced up pretty bad. In the other 2 known blow outs the glass was all thrown into the car behind the driver. I suspect the inside cover was closed in that incident.
Someone from Nissan said that the glass might be weak. It was odd becasue it just broke right in the middle with no warning.
Sunroofs and any other type of roof glass (As well as auto glass exempt the windshield) are usally tempered.
But, tell me ... isn't the sunroof (and skyview) required to be made of safety glass? And although safety glass can, under certain circumstances, come apart into separate pieces, isn't it designed not to? I mean, it can "shatter", but it all stays together in most cases.
Oh, well.
Mike
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Umm.... I personally liked the car and the performace was great. I was JUST wondering if anyone else had this happen to there maxima. Just an heads up.
The glass did shatter, but also 6 inch chunks of glass were present. As a result the deck lid was scratced up pretty bad. In the other 2 known blow outs the glass was all thrown into the car behind the driver. I suspect the inside cover was closed in that incident.
Someone from Nissan said that the glass might be weak. It was odd becasue it just broke right in the middle with no warning.
Sunroofs and any other type of roof glass (As well as auto glass exempt the windshield) are usally tempered.
03-17-2004, 11:00 PM
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As Redsand noted, only the windshield has a layer of adherent flexible material between two layers of glass in order to prevent pieces flying everywhere.
This is the first I have heard of this problem. In thinking about how the skyview and the power sunroof are set up, I don't see any real similarities between them. I will be surprised if the sunroof blowout was caused by the same thing that is causing the skyroof to blow.
This is the first I have heard of this problem. In thinking about how the skyview and the power sunroof are set up, I don't see any real similarities between them. I will be surprised if the sunroof blowout was caused by the same thing that is causing the skyroof to blow.
03-21-2004, 02:17 PM
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There's several complaints about the skyview roof blowing out.
Check out the complaints on http://www.mycarstats.com/console.as...#ReportConsole
Surf to that page, then change the report type to complaints, then view the "misc. components".
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Check out the complaints on http://www.mycarstats.com/console.as...#ReportConsole
Surf to that page, then change the report type to complaints, then view the "misc. components".
(free) Registration is required.
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