tbm3fan
Old Man with a Hat
down Highway 99 in the Central Valley. It is a freeway I don't like and always try to avoid just like the low income US 880. Heading to Turlock and have to drive 99 for 13 miles from Modesto to a nursing home. About 8 miles from Turlock there is a big crash into the side of the car just behind me. Didn't see anything but the crash, smash sound was loud. Thought, great something jumped up from the freeway and hit the side. Now I have body work and painting to do.
Maybe 2 minutes later I turn my head and see the driver's side rear window and it is smashed. The only thing that holds it together is the dark film over the inside. Now I'm pissed as that means a difficult to source window for a hatchback while I wonder if the sedan is the same part number. The impact point was 4 inches behind my shoulder near the very front of that window. Fortunately, when heading home later on a fellow in the parking lot saw the window and stopped. He had good old duct tape in his truck to use in order to keep the window in for the 92 mile drive home.
In my parts book I saw that the sedan and hatchback use the same window so I check Pick & Pull inventory and find only one 1988-92 Mazda 626 in the Bay Area. Luckily the closest one at 16 miles away. When I get there I see the car is a hatchback! OMG, one never ever sees a hatchback and it has unique plastic trim I could also use. Hooray! The window wasn't so easy to get out which told me it wasn't going to be so easy to put in. Total time start to finish was 6 hours.
Maybe 2 minutes later I turn my head and see the driver's side rear window and it is smashed. The only thing that holds it together is the dark film over the inside. Now I'm pissed as that means a difficult to source window for a hatchback while I wonder if the sedan is the same part number. The impact point was 4 inches behind my shoulder near the very front of that window. Fortunately, when heading home later on a fellow in the parking lot saw the window and stopped. He had good old duct tape in his truck to use in order to keep the window in for the 92 mile drive home.
In my parts book I saw that the sedan and hatchback use the same window so I check Pick & Pull inventory and find only one 1988-92 Mazda 626 in the Bay Area. Luckily the closest one at 16 miles away. When I get there I see the car is a hatchback! OMG, one never ever sees a hatchback and it has unique plastic trim I could also use. Hooray! The window wasn't so easy to get out which told me it wasn't going to be so easy to put in. Total time start to finish was 6 hours.
