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Why do sunroofs explode
I took it to the dealership but they wouldn't do anything since my warranty expired...my extended warranty wouldn't touch it either. My insurance company wouldn't cover it since I didn't think anything struck the glass, they felt it was a vehicle defect, not an accident.
To make a long story short, I ended up contacting Hyundai USA's corporate offices, submitting a bunch of paperwork, and they wouldn't do anything. I had to pay the $650 or whatever to have it repaired. While I am thankful no one was hurt, I feel they should have covered this.
Now that Hyundai has issued a recall on 2012 Veloster cars due to exploding sunroofs, I am revisiting my claim with them.
I happened to glance up at the roof and realized that the front sun roof had exploded into a million pieces, fortunately it was safety glass and it all stayed in one piece. We are now waiting for the new sun roof to come in. No one seem to have one in stock and it needs to be ordered out of OHIO. I did call Chevrolet headquarters and they took the information and gave me a claim number. They said they would investigate it and call me back which they did bat stated that there is no know problem with the sun roof. It was a windy day, 90 degrees out and we put the air conditioner on, I don't know it this has any thing to do with the cause of it.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/7_on_your_side&id=8026317
http://www.eckelt.at/en/downloads/produkte/spontaneous_breakage_of_fully_tempere- d_glass.pdf
If you are interested in my experience with BMW, contact me off list at ajgrant@outlook.com . My settlement with them prevents me from public posting. That in itself speaks volumes.
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If you honestly tell them what happened when you file the claim, it is not fraudulent. I don't know if they will pay - it would depend on the policy - but it is not fraud.
In my opinion, there is no way a rock can cause your moonroof to tear on the right and left sides, while the middle is still complete
There's no need to post the same response to multiple members. Those who are following this discussion will see your original response.
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My husband and I were in our 2013 Ford Focus ST this past Saturday, driving across Central Washington. It was a super windy day, with gusts up to 50 mph. We were driving across flatlands, laughing at all the tumbleweeds blowing across the road, when suddenly (just like I've read in previous comments) a loud POP over our heads scared us!! We looked up and were shocked to see our sun roof was completely shattered and the middle of it was gone!
We pulled over and looked, thinking perhaps something hit us. But no. The glass was pushed slightly outward, as if air pressure just sucked it right out. Some glass blew in on us, but the majority of the glass was left somewhere on the highway behind us. We were absolutely dumbfounded.
We still had a couple of hours left to drive. That sure was a long drive home.
We figured it was a freak occurrence with bizarre air pressure due to the wind storm, etc. that exposed a weakness or flaw in the glass.
We called our Ford dealer as we were heading home, and they sounded just as surprised as us. Our service tech assured us it would be covered under warranty. We'll see if he still says that when we go in this morning.
Here is a picture of the damage: http://oi40.tinypic.com/oqkivm.jpg
We also have video of it happening, as I just happened to be filming the crazy tumbleweeds racing across the highway. You don't see the explosion, but you sure hear it, and our subsequent reaction!
It's a shame that either service personnel are blaming it on an outside force, or don't know about potential defects in glass.
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