Has anyone experianced this before? While driving along towing my caravan, i heard a loud bang, my wife,s first reaction was " what did you hit?" looking in the rearveiw mirror i saw the problem, the tailgate glass just shattered into a million pieces although it didn,t fall out because of the laminate. The glass doesn,t seem to have a point of impact that i can see so was it just strain? One thing i have noticed though is the tailgate seems to lock much easier, before the break you had to give it a good bang to get it to close, but now it closes so much easier, also the bottom edge of the break seems to be about 3mm higher than the glass edge that is still held by the sealing putty, so i wonder if the glass was fittedunder strain. Quoted $1200 for a new glass plus fitting.

You could be right but i would have thought a rouge stone would be more likely. Even from passing traffic?

Does your insurance not cover glass? Previously..
Vogue SE TD6
Defender 90 2.4
Defender 110 TD5
Vogue 3.5 EFI

No ,unfortunately i have just changed insurance companies and glass coverage is an extra that i am only now aware of

Did you have the heated rear screen on? Astons had an issue a while back where a HRS issue caused them to go 'bang'.

I have heard of this happening a few times when towing in Oz. Any tow vehicle can be hit by stones hitting the towed vehicle and ricocheting into the glass of the tow car. I have made up a full width mudflap that nearly touches the floor to reduce the risk. Made of old conveyor belt, it is permanently attached to my Treg hitch / Reece tongue so is easy to remove. I do a lot of trips on dirt roads so feel its worthwhile protection for both the towed and tow vehicles

Yes, on the caravan forums someone said they had a blanket made up that obsorbs the impact of the stones so that they don,t bounce back, live and learn, this is the first glass i have lost in 50 yrs of driving and i will now have to insure to make sure if it happens again i will have the cost covered.

Lets hope they don’t happen in three’s

then i will just cut the roof off and ride a flashy convertable.

Here is a link to a pic of my P38 with the treg hitch, mudflap on
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzWPeAlQZPCxZlJaaDRNYjBjRHM/view?usp=sharing][/url]