When it rains, it pours. And then your Viper's window shatters.

[Timnineside]

I walked out to my garage to find this mess today:

Viper window shattered..jpg

Here's the story. The regulator quit about 2 months ago so I changed it myself. The window seemed loose so I took the door apart and snugged everything up. I put about 2K miles on the car since snugging it, did a track day at Gingerman and quite a few 1/4 runs (ran a 11.3!). No problems at all.

I did a 500 mile drive up north and back this weekend and parked the car in the garage on Sunday. Today, Tuesday, I walked out to the garage to get some tools and seen this. Nothing by the car, no signs of any damage. Garage is always locked and my wife and I are the only ones that went in. I have a security camera on the car that I'll double check but it's facing the drivers side so I'm sure I wont see much.


After posting in the VOA Facebook page it seems multiple people that have had this happen while it was raining outside. Some with their car's outside but most of us with there car in the garage.

I know others have had this happen. Can you confirm if it was raining? Also my car is now out of warranty of course but does anyone know of a open recall? GM would recall it im sure!

[St.Char]

Dude...sorry to see that

[Steve M]

Known problem with the side glass on some 2008 cars...from what I've seen, they've attributed it to a bad batch of glass. Not much you can do except replace it.

[Shooter]

My 09 Aero Coupe did that while sitting in the garage. Heard a crash, and ran out to find the passenger side window shattered. Tomball replaced it under warranty. Was not raining that day. I was told the regulator was putting pressure on faulty glass and it shattered. RC's(Former Houston viper owner) gen 4 coupe did it while he was driving on the highway. Was not raining then either.

[BrassMonkey ACR E]

Possible when these cars are parked and you put the windows up it happens due to a tight fit????
Maybe after window is up release the pressure by tapping window switch once in down position quickly to relieve pressure???
Don't know if that is the problem or not but worth trying

[Wiretech]

Possible when these cars are parked and you put the windows up it happens due to a tight fit????
Maybe after window is up release the pressure by tapping window switch once in down position quickly to relieve pressure???
Don't know if that is the problem or not but worth trying

I do the same ,always leave it down half an inch to prevent it from scraping the roof at certain times even after i reset it.

[Timnineside]

Found the glass for $95 new shipped. No reasoning for this but it could be much worse. I'll be tinting this one as well to save from the clean up shall it happen again.