# Exploding passenger side mirror **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** lexus\ **Created:** [May 9, 2014, 2:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/exploding-passenger-side-mirror/84944 "2014-05-09T02:22:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![ljohnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@ljohnson](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ljohnson)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/exploding-passenger-side-mirror/84944/42 "2014-05-10T21:53:08Z")
The Same Mountainbike: I am a scientist & genetic engineer and I am always interested and fascinated in trying to understand how things work & why things do what they do, especially when they fail. 90% of what we do as biologists fails; we get used to failure, trust me. Hence, I have a very natural curiosity about what is causing these sorts of explosions. In my case, I don’t know what happened first - i.e., did the mirror crack and the release of the liquid/gel trigger some sort of electrical short/explosion that caused the whole mirror to come flying out of the casing OR did the explosion happen first, which then caused the mirror to crack? I can say, that in the San Fran bay, temperature fluctuations are infrequent. The day this happened, it was a classical SF morning, ~57 degrees, which is the norm (high 50’s to low 60’s) year round. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/exploding-passenger-side-mirror/84944)._