Not sure I can help without pictures of your backup light installation. I have the SATV rear windshield and mounted backup lights above that on the rear down slope of the stock roof.
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Here are a few pics. I pretty sure the rear window should tuck up under the roof and those lights will be in the way.
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You will either have to:
A: remove the lights.
B: notch out the SATV plexiglass where the light clamps are.
C: mount the light to the roof plastic.
D: mount the lights to the rear plexiglass ( not recommended)
What @JACKAL said with a minor but important exception. The SATV rear windshield is not Plexiglas (or plexiglass), which is acrylic plastic. Rather they, like the plastic front windshields, are made of polycarbonate (Lexan being one trade name). The differences:
Acrylic: Better light transmission than glass! Cheaper than polycarbonate. Can shatter into dangerous shards on impact or crack when drilling or cutting if care is not taken. Holes are typically drilled oversize to prevent cracking from thermal expansion etc. Can easily polish out minor scratches.
Polycarbonate: Bulletproof (literally, when thick enough) so impact resistant and safer in an accident, can be cold bent in a brake. No problem drilling, sawing etc. Scratches do not polish out easily if at all. Softer than Plexi, so is sometimes "hard coated" for scratch resistance.
The only pic I have showing the rear lights. The are actually a little lower than they appear, and below the top of the roof line. You can see from the way the rear windshield mounts that OPs lights gotta be moved.
Acrylic: Better light transmission than glass! Cheaper than polycarbonate. Can shatter into dangerous shards on impact or crack when drilling or cutting if care is not taken. Holes are typically drilled oversize to prevent cracking from thermal expansion etc. Can easily polish out minor scratches.
Polycarbonate: Bulletproof (literally, when thick enough) so impact resistant and safer in an accident, can be cold bent in a brake. No problem drilling, sawing etc. Scratches do not polish out easily if at all. Softer than Plexi, so is sometimes "hard coated" for scratch resistance.
The only pic I have showing the rear lights. The are actually a little lower than they appear, and below the top of the roof line. You can see from the way the rear windshield mounts that OPs lights gotta be moved.
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You may have to adjust them if the clamps are in our clamp locations, but I'm betting you can make it work pretty easy. It wouldn't take much to mod the windshield if you needed to notch it, but you may not have to as long as the light clamps aren't in our windshield clamp locations.
