Is my cars smashed window a break-in or a hit and run?
I don’t see any marks around the edges, but it’s an interesting idea, since Neons of that vintage don’t actually have a frame around the top of the window, so I imagine someone could try to wedge something in between the glass and the rubber there at the top of the window opening and perhaps that could cause this. I think what the cop was suggesting was that pressure against the mirror housing could have flexed the whole thing enough to shatter the window or pop it outward. I am skeptical… I do think that would have damaged the mirror more. beowulf573, wow! That’s kind of scary.
Somewhere on the internets, in the context of the if-you-drive-into-the-lake scenario, I read that it is easiest to break a passenger window in the corner near the mirror because the edges are so close together there that they help amplify the stress placed on the pressure point, whereas it takes more pressure in the middle.
