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I don't know what happened. After Id eaten my fair share of cookies and chocolate covered popcorn at coffee hour (at Church) I headed for my car to retrieve the Coats for this years Giving tree. As I looked from the church I thought to my self "something isn't right". Walking a little further I thought "something’s wrong". Got half way to my car and saw the drivers rear door window had been broken out. The one facing away from the street. Nothing was missing, and no rocks where to be found, but there was a lot of glass everywhere. Cleaned it up best I could, then went to the Shell station and spent $3 vacuuming the rest off the Upholstery. Earlier this week I made an appointment to have it fixed at Sonic Collision in Des Moines, WA. The Owner is a friend of the family, so he got me a good deal This morning I took it down, and they fixed it up for me. I was hoping it was a System malfunction so it could be covered under warrente, but turns out there wasn't anything wrong with the power window system, so I had to fork over the $250. According to Sonic the "Book" for installation was 0.9 hours, and it took about an hour to do.Bellevue Pontiac wanted $280 for the parts (Glass only) and $250 for installation (2.5 hours!?).So all in all, I'm glad it's fixed, but wish I wouldn't have had to have it fixed in the first place.

You're sure someone didn't break it on you?

No way to know. As far as I know I don't have any enemy's at Church, but I guess there are always crazy people out there. Nothing was missing from the car, and the doors where still locked so if someone did break it they didn't steal anything. Just sucks being out the $250 just before the holiday.

My passenger rear window did the same thing. It looked like the glass wasn't tempered right, but the dealer wouldn't work with me. So I ended up having insurance take car of it.I say it wasn't tempered right because it didn't break like safety glass and did not have the expected green color. I also had a guy at work that was a QA Manager for Pinkerton for 8 years look at the debris and even he said it wasn't tempered right.Have your windows tinted so it is harder for the windows to break and it gives you some added security since people wont see much looking in.