240Z Quarter Glass Observation

[Richie G]

Started a restoral process on my quarter windows and noticed that it seems the passenger window has the Nissan stamp "reversed".  With all this PO has done wrong I'm wondering if he took two driver side pieces and made a passenger out of one of them.  Or maybe the factory only had one version of the glass and flipped them on the passenger side for convenience.

 

[bpilati]

Seems unlikely since the glass is curved.

[hiyabrad]

PO??

[Richie G]

26 minutes ago, bpilati said:

Seems unlikely since the glass is curved

About 10 minutes after I posted this I thought the same thing LOL. Just odd that they would etch the inside of one of them and the outside of the other

And PO is prior owner.

[texasz]

Passenger side is backwards on mine also.

[jfa.series1]

21 hours ago, Richie G said:

Started a restoral process on my quarter windows and noticed that it seems the passenger window has the Nissan stamp "reversed".  With all this PO has done wrong I'm wondering if he took two driver side pieces and made a passenger out of one of them.  Or maybe the factory only had one version of the glass and flipped them on the passenger side for convenience.

 

As is mine!

[bpilati]

5 hours ago, jfa.series1 said:

As is mine!

I just checked, so are mine. But the glasses are left and right since they have curvature. So they just printed all on the same side.

[Richie G]

I guess it just strikes me as odd that they would print the name backwards if you want to call it that when so much thought went into the design of the car itself.

[w3wilkes]

Just checked my 12/70 build car and it has the same as the OP quarter windows with the passenger side Nissan etched on the inside of the glass so appears reversed from outside the car.

[w3wilkes]

News flash... Just walked past our 2006 Infiniti M35x (Nissan Fuga in Japan) and thought about this glass etching question. The passenger windows on the M35x are etched on the inside so appear reversed when viewed from outside the car and the driver side is etched on the outside and not reversed from outside the car... But wait, there's more. Last year I bought a 2022 Nissan Frontier (from the Kentucky facility) and the side window etching is on the outside of the glass and non-reversed Nissan from the outside all around.

Edited September 23, 2023 by w3wilkes

[Richie G]

The plot thickens lol.

[jfa.series1]

I suspect this is a vendor production line issue: think of a process where the pieces of glass are all oriented in the same fashion i.e. leading edge forward, irrespective of curvature. The etching process would always be presented with the same corner in the same position and only one etching line would be required. If the right side glass was to be etched on the outside a second etching line would be required for the reverse orientation of the glass. Work simplification, think W.E. Deming in Japan.