Thanks to "friends of the night", last Saturday morning I discovered that a flat,
limestone, triangular rock, about three inches on a side, had been thrown through
the rear window of my 78 Royale. The rock punched a softball sized hole through
the glass, penetrated the shade fabric, put a couple dents in the corner of the
wardrobe woodwork, and landed on the floor in front of the hutch adjacent to the
side door. Needless to say, the glass, which is tempered, broke into a million
pieces and would have fallen to the ground except for being restrained by the
window tinting film I had installed.
Thanks to Max Pardy of Buskirk Rush RV, a customer (Branko Horvat) on his way back
to Deerfield IL, on the NW side of Chicago, delivered a replacement glass to me
this afternoon. His comment upon arrival was something to the effect that "this
is what you should do for a fellow GMC owner". What service!
A local glass company arrived a short time later and had the old out and the
replacement in in less than 20 minutes.
Remember the previous discussion about the ring on the interior of the coach,
above the rear window, which serves as the emergency escape release device???
Previously, I was not knowledgeable of its modus operandi. All there is to it is
the circular opening in the bottom of it, is threaded through the rubber spline
that goes around the perimeter of the glass rubber gasket. Pull the exposed loop
and you pull out the spline, but you need to pull it out all the way around the
glass. You can then push out the glass.
So if you have blinds, curtains, shades, etc., particularly the boxed-in kind (e.
g. valence), covering up the ring, it may be difficult to get to the ring.
Incidentally, the rear window glass is not very heavy and a single individual can
easily pick it up and carry it around.
By the way, insurance is taking care of the damage expense.
Paul Bartz
limestone, triangular rock, about three inches on a side, had been thrown through
the rear window of my 78 Royale. The rock punched a softball sized hole through
the glass, penetrated the shade fabric, put a couple dents in the corner of the
wardrobe woodwork, and landed on the floor in front of the hutch adjacent to the
side door. Needless to say, the glass, which is tempered, broke into a million
pieces and would have fallen to the ground except for being restrained by the
window tinting film I had installed.
Thanks to Max Pardy of Buskirk Rush RV, a customer (Branko Horvat) on his way back
to Deerfield IL, on the NW side of Chicago, delivered a replacement glass to me
this afternoon. His comment upon arrival was something to the effect that "this
is what you should do for a fellow GMC owner". What service!
A local glass company arrived a short time later and had the old out and the
replacement in in less than 20 minutes.
Remember the previous discussion about the ring on the interior of the coach,
above the rear window, which serves as the emergency escape release device???
Previously, I was not knowledgeable of its modus operandi. All there is to it is
the circular opening in the bottom of it, is threaded through the rubber spline
that goes around the perimeter of the glass rubber gasket. Pull the exposed loop
and you pull out the spline, but you need to pull it out all the way around the
glass. You can then push out the glass.
So if you have blinds, curtains, shades, etc., particularly the boxed-in kind (e.
g. valence), covering up the ring, it may be difficult to get to the ring.
Incidentally, the rear window glass is not very heavy and a single individual can
easily pick it up and carry it around.
By the way, insurance is taking care of the damage expense.
Paul Bartz
wner-gmcmotorhome]On Behalf Of GMC73CL
