Swapped out broken hinges hatch glass

[treehan77]

Came home to my rear glass "open" was only held on by the lift struts lol. Lucky it hadn't rained yet. One hinge was broken, I guess the other had been hanging on by a thread and gave way while I was at work. $200 for replacement at the junk yard. Stupid easy.

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[Tonyrodz]

Came home to my rear glass "open" was only held on by the lift struts lol. Lucky it hadn't rained yet. One hinge was broken, I guess the other had been hanging on by a thread and gave way while I was at work. $200 for replacement at the junk yard. Stupid easy.

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Damn, that sux. Luckily you noticed before anything bad happened.

 

[treehan77]

Say what they want but this truck has never broke down or left me stranded

 

[watuzi]

Say what they want but this truck has never broke down or left me stranded

Wish I could say the same thing myself. Wait till your ignition switch bails out on you lol.

 

[treehan77]

Wish I could say the same thing myself. Wait till your ignition switch bails out on you lol.

Haven't heard of that too much. Did it give you any warning

 

[MrBalll]

Nice you found it before the storm.

 

[Doubeleive]

lol, I've had that happen before, and no the ignition doesn't give you any warning it just decides to not start for 10 minutes at the totally random wrong time like when your already going to be late for some good *******

 

[Wimpreed]

Came home to my rear glass "open" was only held on by the lift struts lol. Lucky it hadn't rained yet. One hinge was broken, I guess the other had been hanging on by a thread and gave way while I was at work. $200 for replacement at the junk yard. Stupid easy.

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How did you align the holes to the pins to slide the glass back in? I can get one side to align with no problem but as you know they both must be align to slide the glass back in.

 

[adventurenali92]

Came home to my rear glass "open" was only held on by the lift struts lol. Lucky it hadn't rained yet. One hinge was broken, I guess the other had been hanging on by a thread and gave way while I was at work. $200 for replacement at the junk yard. Stupid easy.

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HOLY GUACAMOLE!! $200 for a junkyard replacement?!?! That’s CRAZY! I’ve bought two Escalade rear hatches from junkyards now in the last couple years. the second one being the newer trim less type, and didn’t pay anywhere near that much for both! You must have an expensive ass junkyard.... lol. Glad you caught it and were able to get a replacement though! Especially before a big storm! That could have sucked.....

 

[Rocket Man]

I can get that glass at my local yards for $60. What did you glue it with? Once they let go once, sometimes the re-glue job doesn’t last long. Iirc there’s only one or 2 products that work good.

 

[adventurenali92]

I can get that glass at my local yards for $60. What did you glue it with? Once they let go once, sometimes the re-glue job doesn’t last long. Iirc there’s only one or 2 products that work good.

I paid $43 for the 2005 esky hatch I pulled a couple weeks ago. The one I pulled last summer was about the same I think. Lol

 

[tRidiot]

I think I paid 100 or 125 for mine about 8 or 9 years ago.

<edit> Mine wasn't broken, but some skeezer decided to try to smash it with a rock and left big ol' scratches in it.

 

[Tonyrodz]

I think I paid 100 or 125 for mine about 8 or 9 years ago.

<edit> Mine wasn't broken, but some skeezer decided to try to smash it with a rock and left big ol' scratches in it.

And it didn't break? Nice.

 

[tRidiot]

And it didn't break? Nice.

No, I was surprised. I found some pits in my side window, too, they tried breaking that first, then moved to the back window, and I think when my alarm went off, it scared them and they bailed. Actually left a zipper bag with a digital camera in it that they had stolen from another vehicle.

 

[Tonyrodz]

No, I was surprised. I found some pits in my side window, too, they tried breaking that first, then moved to the back window, and I think when my alarm went off, it scared them and they bailed. Actually left a zipper bag with a digital camera in it that they had stolen from another vehicle.

What dirt bags.

 

[Rocket Man]

What dirt bags.

It was a skeezer, didn’t you read?

 

[Tonyrodz]

It was a skeezer, didn’t you read?

Skeeter, scumbag, dirt bag--they're all low lifes.

 

[tRidiot]

There was actually blood on the bag and camera - they had broken out my step-dad's rear window in his F150 before they tried mine, but it wasn't his camera they left sitting there. I figured they cut themselves on some broken window glass beforehand. When the cops got there they said they had gone up and down the road and in the hotel parking lot across the street and had broken into 10 or 12 other vehicles... I guess mine was the first with an alarm and it scared them enough they dropped the stuff and took off.

Sad thing is, I never heard my alarm going off, found all this the next morning when I hit my alarm disarm and it chirped 4x at me instead of the usual 2, prompting me to walk around and saw the little bag sitting on my bumper, then noticed they'd scratched hell out of my back window smashing it with the piece of broken concrete - it was dropped next to the back of my truck and also had blood on it. Then I saw they had shattered the F150's back glass and looked like they had gone through it, I think all they got was some change out of the ashtray.

Never did find out if they caught them (doubt it), but it did prompt me to have my alarm changed out for a 2-way paging alarm, put those in all my vehicles now.