New Windshield WITHOUT a Rear View Mirror Mount?

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My TJ came with two top-to-bottom cracks in the windshield. I'm thinking about ordering a replacement. I'd prefer that it not have a rear view mirror mount. Can you get a replacement windshield without one? Has anyone tried to do that?
 
New windshields don't come with the mounts on them, those are added after the window is installed. That being said, if you get a replacement window, it won't have a mount on it.
 
Never found one but if you don't want the mirror, the mount is pretty insignificant.
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New windshields don't come with the mounts on them, those are added after the window is installed. That being said, if you get a replacement window, it won't have a mount on it.
Cool, then I'll just ask the installer not to attach the mount.
 
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My TJ came with two top-to-bottom cracks in the windshield. I'm thinking about ordering a replacement. I'd prefer that it not have a rear view mirror mount. Can you get a replacement windshield without one? Has anyone tried to do that?
Just curious, why the desire to go without a rear view mirror? Not driving it on the street? Trail rig?
 
Just curious, why the desire to go without a rear view mirror? Not driving it on the street? Trail rig?
A few reasons: I like to sit up high in the Jeep and the mirror is right in my line of site. The back window of my soft top is too opaque to see very far behind me anyway, I often pull my camper with my Sequoia so I'm used to just using the side mirrors anyway, and I just really like an unobstructed view when I'm in the backcountry. (In the summer I'll take the doors off, and put the top and windshield down.)
 
New windshields don't come with the mounts on them, those are added after the window is installed. That being said, if you get a replacement window, it won't have a mount on it.
The windshield I had installed recently had a mount on it when they installed it but my mirror didn’t fit it tight so they had to put my old mount on.
 
The windshield I had installed recently had a mount on it when they installed it but my mirror didn’t fit it tight so they had to put my old mount on.

Interesting. Last time I had one installed it didn't have a mount, and that was the same deal with other vehicles I've had it done on before in the past.

I wonder if it depends on who is installing it.
 
New windshields don't come with the mounts on them, those are added after the window is installed. That being said, if you get a replacement window, it won't have a mount on it.
Well shoot! The installer tells me that he cannot get a new windshield without the rear view mirror mount already on it.
 
Interesting... that's not good I guess.
Try a Jeep parts catalogs.. some of them sell replacement windshields.. maybe without the bracket
 
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