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Originally Posted by compu_85
The tempered glass was broken at that point. The pressure change from opening the door just sucked in the pieces.
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Ever heard a film sound effect of ice giving way? That's what this sounds like.
First the muffled BOOM and the initial failure, with the glass still intact but spider-webbed with cracks. Then silence for maybe 10 secs. Then the glass starts to fissure into fine cracks in a continuous muffled cracking sound. After maybe 30 seconds to a minute it's gone from semi-opaque to opaque, almost a frosted appearance.
By the time I opened the door and got out a few minutes later, it was just hanging in place (by the defroster wires, maybe?). When I shut the door the vibration and pressure differential were enough to collapse it onto the parcel shelf.
I have seen something similar happen in a car that was left parked for weeks in direct sunlight during a heatwave. In this case someone bumped the car and the window went.
I had several defroster wires out, but that was the case with every Mercedes I've driven in the winter. Wow.