Has anyone seen or heard of the rear window on a 5000cs shattering into thousands of pieces? As of now I am blaming this unfortunate incident on the automotive glass cleaner used, since it completely shattered in one swift "pop" not more then a minute after it was flawlessly cleaned. I'm curious as to whether the rear window on these cars have a fragile history.[:@]

 

I doubt the cleaner had anything to do with it. I think that the window was already stressed and just by coincidence it shattered during cleaning when you applied a slight amount of pressure.

 

It shattered about a minute after the cleaning was complete, not while cleaning. I figure if the cleaner had any type of reaction with the glass a minute would be a nice little time frame for this reaction to initiate.

 

never heard of any problems like that, how cold was it and did you use hot water to deice it if so it was the hot water " never use hot water on an icy window "

 

It was probably about 85 degrees out (Florida), but I cleaned the window in my garage (atleast 5 degrees cooler). The only water (from a garden hose) to touch the car all day was in the mourning when I washed the whole thing . The windows where cleaned later in the afternoon.

 

Wow that must be a fluke or something. I've never heard of Audi glass doing that.

 

I had a simular problem in the early 1990's w/ my audi fox. It was a very cold day- about 5 deg F. came out from work to find the back window shattered. never found out the cause. []

 

this reminded me of this happening once to a ford Capri the guy went into a shop and left his kids in the car with the radio on ( big speakers all over ) the kids turned the radio full blast and popped all the windows lucky the kids didn't get their ears damaged but I bet they don't do that again and the guy was in tears when he came back and I was on the floor of my car in total laughter and my gut ached it was funny but serious