Have a cap on my Tacoma king cab. Built two shelves. One in the cap, other in the cab. Both sit at window/top of bed sides level. With both sliders open (cab and cap) dogs can come and go front to back. They love having the space to move around. Even works in bad weather and both stayed pretty dry. One liked to lay on the shelf behind me while I would drive and rest her head on my shoulder (Border Collie). They were both happy to be at window level and could see out.
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I use the power sliding rear glass on my F350 frequently. The rear glass is tinted and opening it up makes it easier for me to see when lining up with the fifth wheel with the hitch. I also like to use it for ventilation. I was suprised how often I use it. It's way better than a sunroof which I've never found useful.

I use it when I carry long light things, like molding or pvc pipe.

It's also a good way to vent really hot air out quickly. AC on in front, electric slider open in back, and drive.

with a shell on the bed , all the time, w/o a shell, 6 times a year.


Now theres a fella here in town w/ a full sized p/u, his rear window goes up and down , all the way across, electrically

I'd use that on a regular basis w/o a shell.

I used to run around with a crowd in high school, one of which was a gal named Linda. She loved to drink beer, and tossed the empties through the sliding window into the back on a regular basis.

My truck bed was frequently ankle deep in beer cans after the weekend festivities. That window became known as the Linda Winda,and I call it that to this day.

Tacoma owner here... my sliding rear glass works very well at bringing any debris, loose straw, or pine needles from the bed into the cab at 60MPH. Maybe I am doing it wrong.

Maybe they are a relic of no AC times.

I had a Chevy half ton with front vent windows, floor vents and a sliding rear window. That was all the air conditioning it had and you needed every bit of it in the TN heat.

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Originally posted by jaaron11:
The entire rear window on my Tundra lowers. I use it all the time to facilitate airflow and because the kids like it.

Same here.

I have an F150 with one as well as a sunroof. I open both but leave the side windows closed for a nice ventilation

Cracked it all the time in the summer, to help with the cab getting hot while parked - along with cracking the sunroof, it worked well.

Have one on my ranch truck ('03 Tacoma extracab) that I never use. Have one on the family truck ('11 Tacoma four door w/ 6' bed) that I used just the other day when picking up some conduit with the dogs in the back. Mostly that one gets used by the kids to annoy me though.

I didn't have one on my '04 F150 Crew, but on the '15 Silverado Crew I have a power rear window.

My only real use for it thus far is that if I open the rear window and then just one of the front windows, it eliminates that drumming sound these new trucks do that hurts your ears so much. Other than that and giving the dog a new spot to sniff the air, it hasn't been worth spit.

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Originally posted by Minnow:
Tacoma owner here... my sliding rear glass works very well at bringing any debris, loose straw, or pine needles from the bed into the cab at 60MPH. Maybe I am doing it wrong.

Maybe so. My F-150 does the same thing when I have it completely open. But only open an inch or so dramatically reduces the door window blast, and with no debris, straw or anything entering the cab from the rear. This is true for both my standard cab '91 and '03 Super Crew with electric rear slider.

Any future truck I own will have a rear slider.

only time I ever use it is when want to put longer trim boards thru the window when it's raining, I have a shell.

Leaving work on a hot day, vent out the heat - until I get up to about 30 mph - ac on and windows closed.

I use it all the time. Wouldn't have a truck w/o it. Calms turbulance in the cab when the windows are down.

I have one on my Silverado, a power slider. Used it in the summer once in a while to get the heat out of the truck on hot days. Probably 6 times a year. The cables broke last year. I looked up the part, there were 2 part numbers, each had a different length cable. GM told me which one to order. I got the part, spent the afternoon with my 2 boys taking out the back seat, taking out the old cable and motor only to find the cable was too short. I can open and close it by hand, wasn't going to wait for another part, My sons were not going to be around to help later. I wish the truck didn't come with the sliding window.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Around here, that's known as a "sliding beer window".

They were referred to as "Billy Carter windows" around here for that very reason.
For younger members, Jimmy's brother Billy was a beer drinker of wide reknown. He was quite an amusing sumbitch.

Rarely use mine. It's manual open/close so it's a PIA to get into the back seat in order to open and close it. It does create a nice air flow if you also have a side window or two open. I guess it would be good to run with it open now and again to air out the accumulated farts.