If you have ever had a door glass break, you are familiar with tempered glass.  Tempered glass is a single strength piece of glass that has been cut and bent into the correct shape to fit the desired door or back opening in your car or truck. The raw glass is super heated and then cooled quickly.  This tempering process is what causes a door glass or back glass to break into hundreds of quarter inch pieces when it breaks.

    Tempered glass was designed for the safety of the occupants so that if it is broken, you will not have sharp large shards of glass pushing into the cab of the vehicle toward the driver or passengers.  Tempered glass is lighter than windshield (laminated) glass, so it adds less weight to the vehicle allowing for better gas mileage.  Tempered glass is also slightly less expensive to manufacture.

    Any glass that is parallel to the driver can only be lightly tinted.  Dark tint that would impare the driver's ability is not allowed by both federal and state laws.  However, the glass behind the driver can be very dark and is regulated on a state-by-state basis.  This is why on many truck and SUVs, there will be normally tinted glass on the driver's and passenger's front door glass, but very dark, or privacy glass, in all the glass behind the driver's seat.

    At Window Welder, we routinely replace tempered parts and have some available in stock.  Anything we do not have in inventory is usually available to us within 4-24 hours.  We offer total clean up when we replace your tempered glass, including removing the small pieces of glass from the inside of your door. 

    If there is inclement weather, we can also place a special adhesive plastic over the hole from which the glass is missing, wether it be the door or back glass.  That will allow your vehicle to still repel the rain or snow while awaiting the arrival of your glass.