so while wheeling today i was on a trail that was on the tight side and while turning with the curve i cut it a bit short and side swiped a tree got a very small dent on my passnager side door but my side window totally shattered, does anyone know why this may have happend or is it just pure bad luck on my end? the tree never touched the window. like i said just a small dent in the door right where the handle is. still opens and closes fine just the window is now mia and i have plastic wrap taped on till i can get it fixed this week

 

Was your window up or down at the time?

Side glass is designed to shatter into small "safe" pieces if the window gets flexed too much or gets hit.

Window up: Most likely the door flexed enough to flatten the curve out of the glass tracks and shattered it.

Window down: The door skin came inward far enough to shatter the glasss either directly or by flattening the tracks.

Here's the craziest I've seen:

Got in my car (64 Plymouth Valiant Note: straight, flat window glass in good tracks), closed the door normally (you didn't need to slam it because you could close it from a half catch by pulling on the armrest!) on a 50 degree day (can't even blame cold weather) and the driver's door window showered all over me. Had to call in late to work to get the "crumbs" off me and the seat so I could drive it.

Budd

 

the window was up at the time and just shattered all over my friend and the seat

 

Just one of those freak things it problly flexed just enough to shatter sorry for your luck try a junkyard for replacement might be cheaper

 

yah thanks ill see what i can do tomorrow. ill call around and see prices. i just wanna get her fixed asap. wanna get back out on the trails and shes my dd as well

 

i hear ya there that glass is a pain in the you no what to get all cleaned out to

 

yah i vacumed out my car earlier today but theres still mad glass stuck in the door which sucks. idk how to change the window myself so ill prolly have a shop do it for me

 

I'd have them vac your door out you should try it first they are not that hard but iv'e never done one on a jeep it's been full size fords and rangers i took the windows out of my f350 to tint them is was about half hour each side to get out not bad at all either good luck

 

the windows arent that hard to replace i helped my friend put one in his 95 it only took maybe 45 minutes he had hand crank windows not sure if the power windows are any harder

 

When your door was flexing, that is getting its dent, the frame that holds the window was pushing at a bottom corner. That is all it takes. Side glass will take hammer blows in the middle, but a little pressure on the corner will cause ti to shatter.

 

thanks guys now i know why it happened ha. and since you all said its [pretty easy to change myself how would i go about doing that? i have all day off tomorrow so pending rain(were supposed to get a storm) i can try to fix it tomm

 

yeah do it your self i did my front window regulator in about 45 minutes and that included removing the glass and reinstalling it it is pretty easy the rear might take a little longer since there is not as much free space in the rear door as the front

 

no its the front passangerside window. how would you even change it

 

are you talking about the rear door or the front door the front is easy just lower the track most of the way down until you can see the bolts holding the window to the track and take them off put the new window in and replace the bolts

 

ok whats the track? idk what that means or what part of the door that is. sorry if this is a dumb question