2013 Toyota Camry: sunroof shattered

Filed Feb 4, 2021 · 60,000 miles · MO

While my car was sitting in my driveway, my sunroof exploded. If I had been driving, this would have been very dangerous. The evening before I heard a "pop". That night, I could not locate the source. The next morning, I realized my sunroof had shattered. I contacted toyota. They took a report, but I don't think they took me seriously.

Filed Jan 20, 2020 · 65,000 miles · MO

My family and I heard something like a gunshot that sounded like it was very close to our house. We were too afraid to go outside or look out the windows. Because my car wasn't being driven much at the time, a day or 2 later I discovered my sunroof had exploded while the car was sitting in the driveway. That explained the sound we heard previously.

Filed Oct 26, 2019 · Body · 105,000 miles · VA

The moon roof glass of toyota camry 2013 hybrid exploded (with a bomb like sound) and was shattered to pieces, when driving on a 4-lane highway at 60 MPH, on a partly cloudy day at around 4:00 pm. Normal traffic with like sized vehicles, no other vehicle in the adjacent lanes, no larger vehicles in the proximity.

Filed May 2, 2019 · 57,200 miles · MO

On april 1, 2019, when getting into my car on the driver's side, in my driveway and my granddaughter getting in on the passenger side, she shut the door. The sound I heard when she shut the door I had never heard before. It sounded like she had maybe grazed an empty plastic water bottle as she shut the door. I didnt think much about it again until approximately 3 miles later when we stopped at a convenience store. I heard that same noise when she got out and she the door. I opened the door myself, listened carefully and realized I had a hole in the glass of my sunroof the size of a golf ball. Not only that but visibly I could see every inch of my sunroof was shattered. Very puzzled, I exhasted all the possibilities of how this could have happened and come up with nothing. I called my insurance company and couldn't give them an explanation on how this happened. After reading an article online, I realize that my sunroof had exploded while (thank god) my car was sitting in the driveway.

Filed May 2, 2019 · 57,200 miles · MO

On april 1, 2019 I was taking my granddaughter to school one morning. She got in on the passenger side and shut the door. The sound I heard when she shut the door I had never heard before. It sounded like she had maybe grazed an empty plastic water bottle as she shut the door. I didnt think much about it again until approximately 3 miles later when we stopped at a convenience store. I heard that same noise when she got out and she the door. I opened the door myself, listened carefully and realized I had a hole in the glass of my sunroof the size of a golf ball. Not only that but visibly I could see every inch of my sunroof was shattered. Very puzzled, I exhasted all the possibilities of how this could have happened and come up with nothing. I called my insurance company and couldn't give them an explanation on how this happened. After reading an article online, I realize that my sunroof had exploded while (thank god) my car was sitting in the driveway.

Filed May 2, 2019 · 57,150 miles · MO

On april 1, 2019 I was taking my granddaughter to school one morning. She got in on the passenger side and shut the door. The sound I heard when she shut the door I had never heard before. It sounded like she had maybe grazed an empty plastic water bottle as she shut the door. I didnt think much about it again until approximately 3 miles later when we stopped at a convenience store. I heard that same noise when she got out and she the door. I opened the door myself, listened carefully and realized I had a hole in the glass of my sunroof the size of a golf ball. Not only that but visibly I could see every inch of my sunroof was shattered. Very puzzled, I exhasted all the possibilities of how this could have happened and come up with nothing. I called my insurance company and couldn't give them an explanation on how this happened. After reading an article online, I realize that my sunroof had exploded while (thank god) my car was sitting in the driveway.

Filed May 2, 2019 · 57,150 miles · MO

On april 1, 2019 I was taking my granddaughter to school one morning. She got in on the passenger side and shut the door. The sound I heard when she shut the door I had never heard before. It sounded like she had maybe grazed an empty plastic water bottle as she shut the door. I didnt think much about it again until approximately 3 miles later when we stopped at a convenience store. I heard that same noise when she got out and she the door. I opened the door myself, listened carefully and realized I had a hole in the glass of my sunroof the size of a golf ball. Not only that but visibly I could see every inch of my sunroof was shattered. Very puzzled, I exhasted all the possibilities of how this could have happened and come up with nothing. I called my insurance company and couldn't give them an explanation on how this happened. After reading an article online, I realize that my sunroof had exploded while (thank god) my car was sitting in the driveway.

Filed May 2, 2019 · 57,150 miles · MO

On april 1, 2019, when entering my vehicle in the driveway, along with my granddaughter who got in on the passenger side, she closed the door. I heard a sound I never heard before. It sounded like an empty plastic water bottle was grazed as she shut the door. I didn't think much about it until approximately 3 miles later when we stopped at a convenience store. I heard the same sound as she got out and shut the door. From the drivers' side I opened and shut the door again. Listening carefully, I heard the same sound and realized the sound from coming from above my head. I slid open the sunroof shade and couldn't believe what I saw. There was a hole in the glass of my sunroof the size of a golf ball. Not only that, but what was most astounding was every inch of the sunroof glass was shattered. Very puzzled, I exhausted all possibilities of how this could have happened, (which weren't many) and came up with nothing. Not knowing at the time there was an issue with exploding sunroofs, I called my insurance company and couldn't give them an explanation of how this happened. My deductible was $500, so the insurance company could not help because they assessed the damage as costing on around $282. A few weeks later, I was forced to try to get the sunroof repaired because the interior of my vehicle was being damaged because of the rain, I searched the internet for someone to do the repair.this is when I came across several articles on exploding sunroofs. That was the only explanation that made sense of why my sunroof was broken and why every inch of the sunroof was shattered. My car was last driven that sunday evening. No unknown sounds were heard as the doors were opened and shut. The sunroof had to have exploded while in the driveway, sometime after the car was last driven sunday evening and when I and my granddaughter got back in monday morning at approximately 6:30am.

Filed Sep 26, 2018 · Visibility · 93,902 miles · TX

I was driving down the highway when I heard this huge pop that sounded like a gunshot, honestly. I quickly glanced around but didn't notice anything. I get to my destination and walked around my car. No glass was cracked, all my lights were fine, and there were no dents or holes on my car. Thinking it may have just been debris that hit my car and made a weird noise I got in my car and started driving home. I get on the highway, start going about seventy MPH, and out of nowhere I hear this crunch and scrape noise followed by a bunch of air coming from my ceiling. Confused, I get off the highway and I pulled over into the parking lot of a walmart and that is when I saw my sunroof had exploded for no reason! I was not passing over a bridge when I heard the initial pop nor was there was not any construction going on near where I was when I heard the initial pop. Luckily, I had the sunroof closed so I was able to get as much glass out as I could. There was no rock or brick or any other debris inside the sunroof compartment. Also, I noticed that the glass is facing upwards and not downwards.

Filed Mar 10, 2014 · Visibility · 16,240 miles · MS

Tl* the contact owns a 2013 toyota camry. The contact stated that while driving 40 MPH, a loud explosion was heard as the contact noticed that the sunroof had shattered. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection where they stated that they could not determine the cause of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 16,240. The VIN was not available.