Fluky driver door glass damage

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Driving eastbound on I84 at 4am this morning in Oregon I hear something hit the windshield hard, like a rock.

Pitch black out and looking at the windshield didn't see anything while driving. Stopped for DEF fluid and saw the damage, the driver glass.

How fluky for a rock to hit the side of the vehicle, and right behind a massive mirror.

I will replace the glass myself, pull OEM glass from a junkyard. Not wanting a insurance claim.

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GON, Suggestion for you. Pull both the window and the regulator at the yard if both are intact. Will save you lots of time on the replacement install. Then you can pull the regulator off the broken glass and keep it for a spare. Good Luck!
 
Were you drifting???
Was this from a street takeover????
Why is the driver mirror unpainted?????
j/k
 
Maybe another highway shooter but with a BB gun instead? Probably not. In all my years of auto damage estimating, I've never seen damage like that.

I've seen tempered door glass chipped when a customer drove through a debris field of glass and rocks from an accident in the opposite lane, but it was just a 3mm x1mm rectangular scrape.
 
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I didn't think that was even possible! I would have thought it would have turned into millions of pieces immediately. Interesting side note, almost every window chip I've incurred, across multiple vehicles, has happened on I-84.
 
If you've ever had a bee ricochet through the open window onto your chest you understand how it could happen with a rock.


The damage pictured is on the backside of the mirror mount, no way a rock hit that. This may be the theft recovery truck with parts from all over the US onboard. Who knows what caused that damage...
I was wondering about that too:
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The damage pictured is on the backside of the mirror mount, no way a rock hit that. This may be the theft recovery truck with parts from all over the US onboard. Who knows what caused that damage...
Isn't this the OP's personal vehicle, and wouldn't they know if that mirror mount damage was or wasn't there before? I'm expecting them to comment on that.
 
Bigger question.
Why didn't the tempered glass shatter like it's supposed to???

I had the same thing happen to me on an F150.
Mine was on the passenger side...the window tint held it together.
I went to a store and bought some packing tape and taped up the outside.
Drove from Montrose CO back to Houston TX and had it replaced.
 
Isn't this the OP's personal vehicle, and wouldn't they know if that mirror mount damage was or wasn't there before? I'm expecting them to comment on that.
This looks like the OP's 2019 auction theft recovery truck that was beat to snot when he got it. It was an epic GON adventure sourcing all the parts that had to be replaced. I suspect that mirror was damaged when he got the truck but it was functional so he left it alone.

Here's the 16 page thread: 2019 F350 Ford theft recovery truck
 
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