Rear hatch glass

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You can't solder them on.I found out you'd have to heat the entire glass up to temp. The frost fighter uses an epoxy that has silver in it to conduct electricity. It's silver in color too; can't tell it's been repaired. You can even mask off the entire area where the tab mounts and spread it out with a putty knife and stick the tab in it if the tab tore off a big piece of the mounting area. That's what I did after I tried soldering and then the loctite. Mine was messed up pretty bad from my fails but frostfighter fixed it up. I was looking at $200 for a used glass that might lose a tab at any time. I figure if it's old like mine, what's to say the tabs will stay on much longer.
 

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The glass will switch out with no problems. All the mounting on both are identical. A family friends 2005 short Denali had the glass with the molding around the edge and her hatch is mounted exactly the same as my hatch on my 2006 XL Denali that has the other style hatch. One tab on my defrost is broken so I need to order the kit to fix it.
 
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Hey, I also have a tab broken off.. can I just cut the wire? And leave the other tab on? Live in TX, will never use the defrost.
 

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Hey, I also have a tab broken off.. can I just cut the wire? And leave the other tab on? Live in TX, will never use the defrost.
As long as you put some tape on it so it doesn't short to the chassis.
 

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I have one for sale, but shipping is going to be a BI**C , Pm me if your interested
 

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