Tempered isn't stronger than laminated glass. Tempered is stronger than plate glass. Your choice to use plate glass, tempered glass or tempered laminated glass or plate laminated glass. But, again anything tempered will get sent out to be tempered and they will laminate it for you if you want it laminated.
WaterH, you are correct in using laminated for the windshield and your choice about the back window and door/side windows if you want to go tempered, laminated or plate glass. Plate glass breaks into big chunks and will **** you up. The two major laminations used for glass are SGP(stronger) or PVB lamination used for guardrails or skylight glass or anything where someone can fall through and you are concerned about that(like in a school, Health facilities, etc). In a guardrail example, glass with SGP will bend, but snap back into place even if the glass breaks, PVB laminated glass bends over and stays bent over when the glass breaks and with either PVB or SGP the glass stays adhered to the lamination. There's videos showing laminated glass getting hit with big weight.
Laminated glass can be tempered or non-tempered that's another decision you can make, but anything tempered has to be sent to a factory that tempers glass.
You can polish laminated tempered or non-tempered glass with a fine grit sander, but you must be very careful to not overheat the glass or it will crack/break the glass
This is a vid of Tempered Glass, Tempered with PVB lamination and Tempered with SGP lamination.
The reason I used the laminated door window glass is because our rigs tend to hit rocks, trees, etc and I didn't want 100 billion pieces of glass to deal . And with that even broken tempered glass will cut you, but not like plate glass when it breaks.
