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Power Rear Window

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I put the midgate down and leave the glass in to camp.

Hey that reminds me! I gotta' go find that thread about the rear window screen. Somebody was going to take a window frame without glass and put screen material in it for camping and keeping the bugs out. You just store it where the window stores in the midgate when the glass is in, and verse-visa. Want the window open? Still want security? Get a window frame with no glass, install expanded steel, with a cool chevy logo in the middle! Better yet, replace the rear window with a plasma TV screen facing the people behind so they can watch a movie on the always stopped 91 freeway! Or link it to a PC in the truck so you can run a slide show for them with pictures of your kids and your last vacation! Somebody stop me!

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WOW! I always thought a power window that just goes down into the midgate was a wonderful idea because I have a carseat in the back of my AV and I have to take it out to store the glass. But after reading all of these threads, you guys make me wonder if I would like that option. I never thought about not being able to leave the glass in and the midgate down. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
 
NJ-Black-02-2500 said:
Ok how about this....

Instead of sliding into the mid gate...the power window has a sliding panel in the middle...like some pickup windows...

has a frame around it ...so it can be removed...but the middle slides open like a pickup window....

motor for the window resides in the mid gate and engages the bottom of the window to open or close...perhaps a screw drive against the track or something....

I think you're on to something here. Of course you're from NJ, where all the good ideas come from. ;) No one said that the entire window had to slide out of the way. This may be a great compromise.

I know I'm hesitant to remove the window, because I'll forget to put it back in and then it will rain. And I'm always afraid I'm going to break the glass. Once I dropped the whole window and thought I had broken it. But it held up pretty well. It's just a heavy and awkward process. Leaving it in place and dropping the midgate is a piece of cake.
 
I like the idea of a split midgate, however, the idea of a power rear window does not fly. If you have a power rear window, you will be required to lower the window before dropping the midgate. This does not allow you to drop the midgate and leave the window in place, with all three panels in place as well.... Thus back can still be locked.....

Split midgate is want I would like to see on the 2007, next generation!
 
just take a band saw to it, and you canhave it split now
 

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why not a power window that would go up into the top, kinda like the old slab type overhead garage doors
 
awaken96 said:
I wonder if GMC's new midgate2 would work on the AV, i havnt seen one yet.
Are you talking about the one on the GMC Envoy XUV? It will work but you then can not carry cargo longer than 5' and protect it from the weather/theft at the same time. To do that you need to leave the bedcovers on, the rear window in place, and the midgate down. The midgate on the Envoy XUV doesn't have the ability to leave the window in place while dropping the midgate, but it doesn't have to because it has ANOTHER window behind the midgate one to secure the vehicle when the midgate is down.

If you want a power midgate window, you also need a snugtop. Then I guess what you're looking for is a kind of Super-size XUV instead of an Avalanche.
 
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