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The photo is the windscreen incident (most recent. The video is of the previous incident of the cat breaking the roof glass.From the photo, the glass seems to be scuffed rather than cracked. At least that's my impression. Having had a couple of windscreens replaced on my vehicles over the years, all of the damage have been very sharp, thin lines. Or a divot when a rock hit it. I don't have any experience with the multi-layered glass that's now used with these new vehicles. Have you had the glass inspected by a repair company?
- That cat couldn't have weighed more than 6 kilos. I've got a couple of 12 pounders myself and although they are indoors-only, I don't think that they could damage automotive glass
- I've had some neighborhood outdoor cats jump up on my car but the only evidence is their sometime muddy paw prints up the hood and over the windscreen. Have never had any glass damage; paint maybe but I'm not anal enough to fret over every single scratch my car gets.
- Photo you provided of the windscreen showing the damage is horizontal. The cat's movements were vertical. Furthermore, the photo appears to show the right A-pillar, the passenger side of a RHD vehicle, with a chip or dent at the very edge of the glass. The cat in the video did not approach the edge on that side.
- If you are asserting that the damage on the edge propagated a crack horizontally, then I'd say that it's more likely that something hit there and skidded or was dragged across the glass.
It’s a design flaw in the car IMO. Glass is extremely strong but weak if you attack it directly from the side. A seal is needed to protect it.yeah, I saw the video and there is no way the cat doing what it did in those videos, cracked your glass. Even if it's wolverine and this cat had it's nails replaced with Adamantium. If the glass could crack from nails of a cat weighing ~10lbs, we'd be replacing our windshields every few weeks.
I don't think a cat is doing this. There's no way they have the weight or strength to do that to glass. I have parked my Model 3's in our garage for the past 5 years and our cats are always jumping on to and off the car. Even jumping onto the roof glass from cabinets above, and I've never had a single scratch on the glass. The only problem I get is the body paint when the slide off the car - but the doesn't take much to scratch Tesla paint.
If it's that small, it probably was a field mouse jumping on it.Yesterday, noticed a 13" hairline crack, extending from the front edge of the leading roof glass pane.. about 12" from the side. No chips, no sign of what caused it. Stress..I assume. Why, is the glass "bad" in some way?
a cat's feet is padded and they have 4 feet. The weight distributed is 2lbs. 2lbs is not enough to crack anything.We have two cats. The female is small. About 8.5 lbs. However, I have a bookcase that is 6'6'' tall. I've seen her jump from the floor to the top of it. There must be a very momentary high-pressure kick to do that. With sharp claws concentrating the force.
However, I'm a little skeptical of the OPs story but I'm not totally dismissing it either. How about reversing my example? Drop an 8.5 lb. weight with two sharp points onto the glass from 6.5 feet? Whaddya think? Who wants to try this experiment?
All true but if my 16.2 pound cat fell from a second story window and landed with one foot on the glass, that would be more than 4 pounds (i.e., force equals mass times acceleration). Still not saying that the OPs example is valid, but I have my doubts that that "tiny" feline caused the window crack.a cat's feet is padded and they have 4 feet. The weight distributed is 2lbs. 2lbs is not enough to crack anything.
the crack is 13" long, and 4" from the end the level of the glass is not equal. Running my fingernail across the crack stops my nail. I think it is a stress crack, others have had them.If it's that small, it probably was a field mouse jumping on it.
Well, on this one, we have a real world example. Note the reflection of the cat as it falls:All true but if my 16.2 pound cat fell from a second story window and landed with one foot on the glass, that would be more than 4 pounds (i.e., force equals mass times acceleration). Still not saying that the OPs example is valid, but I have my doubts that that "tiny" feline caused the window crack.
edit: Here he is:
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Ouch! Okay, maybe a cat can break a windshield...Well, on this one, we have a real world example. Note the reflection of the cat as it falls:
If your car is still under warranty, Tesla generally covers stress cracks. Make sure to take plenty of pictures however to document the entire crack (take wide as well as up close pictures). Make sure to show there is no impact point. If Tesla finds an impact point, they won't cover it.the crack is 13" long, and 4" from the end the level of the glass is not equal. Running my fingernail across the crack stops my nail. I think it is a stress crack, others have had them.