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Old 04-03-2012, 04:50 AM   #1
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Custom lexan/polycarbonate rear window, legal?

Hi guys I have a secret project going on and I need some advise before I get over my head... for the rear windshield I want to make a lexan/polycarbonate window and I need to know if this is legal in B.C.

I would specially like to shape the glass a little to fit a custom hardtop for my convertible car, so is any type of plastic glass legal here and the dam monopolistic insurance company ICBC that dictates what can be insured.
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Old 04-03-2012, 06:13 AM   #2
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chances are if its not DOT approved; its not legal. Unless its for track use only, even then theres rules and regualtions you have to abide by.
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Could it be an autokonexion HT ?
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Citing the BC MVA 7.05(4)

No person shall replace, or cause to be replaced, any glass in a door or windshield or window of a motor vehicle or a camper except with safety glass, provided that glass replaced in a windshield of a motor vehicle shall not be heat treated or case hardened glass.

So no go. All windows need to be safety glass.
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Old 04-03-2012, 09:07 PM   #5
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what about safety-glass off other small hatch cars....like the Beetle. Two of them parallel would make a bubble hatch.


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Could it be an autokonexion HT ?
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Old 04-04-2012, 01:17 AM   #6
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Found this in Google
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Old 04-04-2012, 01:30 AM   #7
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This might be way easier since it is local, so you don't get border guards / clearing houses making all types of excuses. The place is out in Poco, next to the new bridge.

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Old 04-04-2012, 11:24 PM   #8
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Thanks for the company finds, I guess its possible to do the custom hatch I wanted... I'll just have to see if its affordable first.
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Old 04-05-2012, 12:01 PM   #9
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^ in the automotive world 'custom' & 'affordable' are two words that almost never end up in the same sentence...

custom fabrication done by a proper shop is properly priced
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Im thinking of finding Civic windows from a junkyard for ~$80 then cutting them into ovals with a rotozipper as shown in the video.

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Before you go to a custom glass shop, have your CAD file ready.. it will save both parties a lot of time.
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Old 04-06-2012, 10:42 AM   #12
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I cant afford to take it anywhere, I also found out that cutting those side windows off a Civic will shatter at the slightest cut because they are tempered glass.

The solution, overlapping! I'd just have to adjust my cad model for a flatter hatch but still keep the oval opening shape.

Thanks again guys and ancient_510 for finding the motor vehicle act laws.
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