WOW! sorry to hear. that really scary too, like others said luckily the sun roof was not open!

from what i have heard the glass on the G37 are very soft and little rock will leave chip marks on the glass, which i have already seen!

possibly a rock did hit it, or maybe you went over some bump and ur sunroof wasnt mounted it place well and it cracked? :/ really dont know what to say, but glad you guys are safe!

 

Thank you for the kind heart words! We are very lucky nothing else significant happened. Took the car into the dealer this morning and my car is done. I will probably pick it up tomorrow. Will post pictures of post-shattered. Lol... thanks again guys!

I will never know what really happened but I'm glad to put this behind me and move on. It's still a beautiful and fast car.

 

OK guys, you did read the thread right? The OP stated that they went under some overpasses and/or bridges. If an object falls off an overhead object then it falls down. If you drive under that object as a say rock is thrown off of it and it hit the sunroof then smash. This did not explode or anything like that. Maybe if you lived in AZ and had some subzero AC hitting it at the same time plus a small chip in it then I could see it shattering. It sucks but I bet someone through a rock or something off one of those bridges and it hit your car just right. I have seen kids do that on overpasses in my town. Up there spitting on cars and kicking off small pebbles. OP, I am sorry that this happened to you though. Just think it could have been worse like hitting the front windshield which I hear cost over $1000 dollars.

 

Goddamn that's some crazy stuff! I hope everything got resolved.

 

the thing to take away from this post is that
brilliant

 

I have heard this happening a few times with different models. A person is driving and the window is cracked just a hair, not enough for you to see it but enough to change the pressure in the cabin. when they hit faster speeds the pressure builds up till it pops at the weakest link. i.e. the sun roof glass.

 

how in earth does this happen?! WOW! From now on I will always close the shade.

 

wtffffff

 

Gr8Xsc8, I'm curious to know if ya'll still went to the concert or not? Sorry about your car, but it could have been worst.

 

Well I had my sunroof shatter in my Scion tC, got it fixed under warranty, and traded it in the next day.

Isn't it supposed to be safety glass?

 

Ugh.. we went but I could not enjoy the concert. It was packed as hell though.

 

The sunroof on my 2010 G37 sedan exploded around 7:30 this morning. I was driving on a two lane road, no other cars around me anywhere. I heard a loud boom and glass went everywhere. It was about 68 degrees outside and raining so all of the windows were up. There is absolutely no way anything hit my sunroof because there was nothing around me.

 

one time when we were driving in new delhi, there was alot of raining going on and alot of puddles on the road, we were passing underneath an overpass bridge and a huge dump of water fell on top of our front windshield, it looked like we just hit a lake front first. we realized the water was dumped onto the car from traffic splashing water from the overhead bridge...freak incidents i

or maybe its "frame flexing" that causes the glass to crack, temperature changes can cause materials to expand and contract, maybe going from excess cold to excess heat all of a sudden caused the glass to crack via the frame putting tension on it