What Types of Car Windows are There?

 

Car glass fits into two categories, laminated and tempered.

• Laminated glass is usually found in your front windshield. It is highly impact resistant but difficult to escape from in an emergency.
• Tempered glass (the focus of this page) is most commonly found on the side and back windows of your vehicle.

Tempered side glass is quite ‘hard’ despite what the movies make it seem. However, it quickly fractures in to many mostly harmless pieces when it does break. This is desirable because if you ever need to get out of your vehicle through the window, large pieces of glass are extremely dangerous.