Garage Door Spring Broke - Car Showered with Broken Glass

[1969Mach1Mike]

My car Took a Glass shower. Giant pieces of glass fell about6 feet onto the hood at various damaging angles. It took about 3 hours to get all the glass off of the hood by hand and the shards were very large to dust size, could not be removed via shop-vac and had embedded themselves into the hood PPF. The pieces hd to be removed with bare hands as gloves wouldn't grab them and risked scratching. Once I got everything down to dust level, I used a leaf blower to blow the dust into the yard. I wish the glass had hit the windshield as I have full coverage for eternity with the KARR Guard plan.


Good News I have XPel Ultimate PPF on the whole front end. It really appears to have mitigated 85% of the damage. There is no doubt this would have required a total repaint had I not had this installed. There are visible chunks/gouges in the PPF and some paint damage. I am going to use the heat gun to initiate the 'self healing' properties and see what it looks like later today. I still may have to have the PPF removed from the Fenders and the Hood to have the paint repaired once I determine the extent of the damage. The PPF performed very well I have to say.

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[Snakebitten]

Amazing picture
Gorgeous car

 

[Brons2]

Yikes, you must have a lot of glass in your door. Is it a 1 piece door or a bendable one?

 

[HuntingPudel]

I’m sorry to hear that your car received damage from the spring breaking. When my spring broke last year there was thankfully no other damage. It just snapped about 20% from one end. ??

 

[DugthePug Dad]

Ouch!!!

 

[JohnFoxeSheets]

Dang! That sucks. Luckily the IBSM paint color hides a lot, but yeah, seems likely you'll need to at least do some touch up.

I take it the garage door came slamming down when the spring broke and showered glass inside and outside the garage (and you back your car into it)? I'm glad (presumably) no one was hurt!

 

[ipca204]

who has a glass garage door? I'm confused? Shouldn't it be safety glass or polycarbonate?

 

[1969Mach1Mike]

Dang! That sucks. Luckily the IBSM paint color hides a lot, but yeah, seems likely you'll need to at least do some touch up.

I take it the garage door came slamming down when the spring broke and showered glass inside and outside the garage (and you back your car into it)? I'm glad (presumably) no one was hurt!

Nope the automatic door opener held the door up and bent it in half at the top. and the glass windows were exactly above my hood. So the door was held up 80% up, spring broke, auto door hanger held it and it flexed in the middle which shatters the unsafe shitty single pane glass I thought was polymer for the last 17 years. I have a 200+ nick pattern that is about 1 foot wide across the middle of the hood and fenders.

 

[1969Mach1Mike]

who has a glass garage door? I'm confused? Shouldn't it be safety glass or polycarbonate?

Yeah, I assumed the two glass windows were polymer based for the last 17 years. For the exact reason you stated (safety). NOPE who the hell uses real glass? I'm cutting some new windows with Lexan today. for my other door that has 3 more of these types of windows.


My car has about 200 nicks in the PPF. It's REALLY hard to tell if only the PPF was affected with the lced blue silver metallic paint. I used a heat gun to self-heal some of the nicks, the majority are too big to heal. I think at a minimum i;m going to have to pull the PPF off the entire front end (excluding the bumper). This will be a 700$ re-application.

 

[JohnFoxeSheets]

Nope the automatic door opener held the door up and bent it in half at the top.

Dang! I’d be very interested in seeing a photo of the door if you’re willing.

 

[HuntingPudel]

Nope the automatic door opener held the door up and bent it in half at the top. and the glass windows were exactly above my hood. So the door was held up 80% up, spring broke, auto door hanger held it and it flexed in the middle which shatters the unsafe shitty single pane glass I thought was polymer for the last 17 years. I have a 200+ nick pattern that is about 1 foot wide across the middle of the hood and fenders.

Ouch, so it was a slab door and not an articulating door? Bummer. ??

 

[amerifolklegend]

who has a glass garage door? I'm confused? Shouldn't it be safety glass or polycarbonate?

I have a solid wood door on my two-car garage that is original to the house (built in 1955.) That super heavy door has four glass widows in it. I won't be changing them till I need to. Even when a spring broke 12 or 13 years ago, the glass remained intact.

 

[zvez]

Yeah, I assumed the two glass windows were polymer based for the last 17 years. For the exact reason you stated (safety). NOPE who the hell uses real glass? I'm cutting some new windows with Lexan today. for my other door that has 3 more of these types of windows.


My car has about 200 nicks in the PPF. It's REALLY hard to tell if only the PPF was affected with the lced blue silver metallic paint. I used a heat gun to self-heal some of the nicks, the majority are too big to heal. I think at a minimum i;m going to have to pull the PPF off the entire front end (excluding the bumper). This will be a 700$ re-application.

I guess I need to check the windows in my garage door, always assumed it was safety glass.

 

[1969Mach1Mike]

I have a solid wood door on my two-car garage that is original to the house (built in 1955.) That super heavy door has four glass widows in it. I won't be changing them till I need to. Even when a spring broke 12 or 13 years ago, the glass remained intact.

Yeah, these new doors are aluminum if you have an auto garage door all the weight goes right to the attachment point. it holds but the door panels around it collapse and create a seam, flexes the windows and explodes everything. I still had no clue they would allow single pane glass. I was thinking about doing custom wood doors to help alleviate the heat.

 

[JohnFoxeSheets]

Yeah, these new doors are aluminum if you have an auto garage door all the weight goes right to the attachment point. it holds but the door panels around it collapse and create a seam, flexes the windows and explodes everything. I still had no clue they would allow single pane glass. I was thinking about doing custom wood doors to help alleviate the heat.

Dang. My door is a solid wood articulating door with glass inserts in the top panel. It weighs about 15,000 tons (ok, maybe that is a slight exaggeration). Not sure what would happen if the springs broke, but it wouldn’t be pretty! I know the glass is actually glass because it’s glue chip glass.

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