[CharlesInCharge]

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.
Thanks

Charles

[Supafly]

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.

[Little Tea]

Could it be an autokonexion HT ?

[ancient_510]

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.

[CharlesInCharge]

what about safety-glass off other small hatch cars....like the Beetle. Two of them parallel would make a bubble hatch.
http://www.barnfinds.com/sites/barnfinds.com/files/imagecache/large/images/1/1958_vw_euro_beetle_rear_corner_0.jpg

Could it be an autokonexion HT ?
No another donor.

[Manic!]

Found this in Google
Precision Glass Bending: CUSTOM BENT GLASS SPECIALISTS (http://www.e-bentglass.com/index.html)

[godwin]

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.

About Coastal Curved Glass | Coastal Curved Glass (http://www.coastalcurvedglass.com/about-coastal-curved-glass)

Found this in Google
Precision Glass Bending: CUSTOM BENT GLASS SPECIALISTS (http://www.e-bentglass.com/index.html)

[CharlesInCharge]

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.

[G-spec]

^ 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

[CharlesInCharge]

Im thinking of finding Civic windows from a junkyard for ~$80 then cutting them into ovals with a rotozipper as shown in the video.
Windshield cutting with Pete Hagan haganauto.com - YouTube

http://i.imgur.com/Of0DN.jpg

[godwin]

Before you go to a custom glass shop, have your CAD file ready.. it will save both parties a lot of time.

[CharlesInCharge]

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.