Is it worth replacing the rear large-windshield glass on 2007 Prius myself?

So how many generation 2 Prius have you seen with fake back glass pieces? I don't think I've ever seen one personally I don't generally look all the time I look at the front glass 90% of those have been replaced but the back generally not so much is it easy to replace pretty much by the way I find to take windshields and back glasses out is to use a multi-tool with a blade that I buy online that's made to cut through the urethane where the glass is glued in front and rear the blade is about $24 it goes on your multi-tool it's extra long it's kind of like a scraper and you just stick it in between the metal and the urethane and the glass and hit the button and it just undoes the seal between the urethane glass in the metal if you go to the glass shop you'll see the glass shop people use a tool that looks like a sawzall with the blade I'm talking about they make the same blade to go in a multi-tool if you don't want to buy the sawzall looking thing or if you own a sawzall you can get the same blade for the sawzall the solves all is a little more to control then the multi-tool the multi-tool you can operate with one hand the Saw's all not so much then again you got to remember the glass place is cutting out your broken glass so it's already broken they're not trying to save what they're taking out you are the multi-tool is not quite as hard on everything if you can understand that the sawzall. Make some serious vibration when you're cutting the glass out the multi-tool not so much

 

No a knife will never make anything happen except break the glass I can't even imagine I used to work in a salvage yard and have to do this there's a tool that they make that has a little side handle and an angled blade and an aluminum handle if you want to go the seriously manual route but usually that takes a long time and the chance of breaking is about 85%. I used to have to pull these in a salvage yard situation years ago like 1985 when the Cadillac had the plastic inside lined windshield that everybody screwed up putting inspection stickers on

 

I'll try and get you a link up for the blade but you can just kind of Google it windshield removal blade for a multi-tool I kind of looks like a big scraper or a scraper that goes on a multi-tool but it's longer so that it can reach down between the top of the dash and the windshield I mean obviously but I'll try and get you a physical link to the exact bit that I buy from the same seller that I purchase it from as soon as I can get to my main computer. The knife you'll wind up cussing out everything in sight and never looking at a piece of glass again that's for sure the multi-tool or the sawzall looking device makes it almost the one handed job seriously. With the multi-tool and the sawzall in the glass shop they don't even have to pull the trim around the inside of the windshield this tool reaches down that's why it has to be long it was right in between the dash all the surround plastics up along the top edge none of that has to come off you just stick this tool in there and pull the trigger and follow the line that you started whichever way you're going generally a windshield will be out and about 14 minutes something like that.

 

If you have the tools that auto window glass installers use to remove old windows and install new ones and you've watched lots of youtube or Tik tok to learn how to use those tools, then go for it. But it doesn't take much to damage the glass you're trying to pull because the way they do car windows today is way different than how we did them back in the 70's and 80's.