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You have three choices: 1. Find an original back glass. They'll only be available in clear or sun-ray tint, which is a light green tint. 2. Have a local shop cut the back glass out of laminate, in which case you have a wide choice of tints. However, laminate is the same stuff your windshield is made of, and it's not very resistant to impact. 3. As 69Chevy said, you can have your glass company make a template and order a piece of tempered glass in pretty much any tint you want.

Tempered glass has to be cut before tempering. Tempering is a process where the glass is heated to over 1300 degrees and rapidly cooled. The rapid temperature change creates stresses within the glass that give it two very important characteristics: First, the surface of the glass is very resistant to breakage. I've hit tempered glass in storm doors and had it break the aluminum frame before the glass broke. Second, when the glass does break, it breaks into small pieces, which keeps you safe by avoiding large shards of glass. Because the tempering process toughens the face of the glass, as 69Chevy said, the edges are fairly fragile.

Installation is really simple. All you need is a helper and a piece of rope. I prefer 3/16 hollow braid nylon, but 1/4 is good too. Put the glass on a flat surface, and then put the rubber on the glass. Put the rope all the way around the pinchweld channel on the rubber and overlap it at the middle of the bottom. Have your helper hold the glass in the opening from the outside and apply a little pressure. Now pull the rope to get the rubber over the pinchweld. A little glass cleaner on the rubber will make it slip over the metal more easily.

If you have trim, it needs to go in the rubber before you install the glass into the truck.