This morning I discovered a wonderful defense mechanism that I never knew my jeep was installed with.

So, I was driving to work this morning, with 6 inches of snow on my roof. The highway was kinda clear, but I was still taking it easy just in case. I got a tailgater behind me in one of those little saturn sports cars. I guess I was driving too slow in the right lane and no one would let him over. So, I smacked my soft top and snow bounced up and off and smacked him right in the windshield. He didn't learn the first time, so I did it again. He kept his distance after that

 

Thats awesome!! On my old TJ I had two KC lights in the rear of my roof rack and if someone tailgated me I would flip them on...Thet backed off quick!!

 

Wait a minute here. I've always thought Philly was the city of brotherly love.
Ten years ago I might have done that, but today I take the passive route. Just keep driving the speed limit, and perhaps tapping the brake pedal every once in a while.
But if that jerk bumps me, now that another story.

 

or if above freezing you can use my anti tailgating mod ! Check my sig

 

Or if you live in Dallas. When was the last time you had enough snow in Dallas to pop it off the top? Seriously, I just caution everyone that if there were an accident, you'd probably be held accountable (of course, you're headed away from the accident scene and could chose to keep going--but then if found out you'd be in really deep doo-doo).

 

I just make a simple ABS test. Works everytime.

 

How could I make that work with a hardtop???

 

If the roads are bad a shift a little to the left or right will generate some nice rooster tails that will deter most tailgaters.

 

X1 on that

 

Hi! I feel your pain... While my situation is probably much different than yours (we are fortunate to have many "back roads") I reconciled myself to leaving a bit early, driving on the back roads whenever possible, and pulling over (or even off) when / if I see more than a couple of cars behind me and enjoying the trip / views. I use to be a hot-head and slammed on the brakes etc but I'm approaching 60 years old and don't tolerate the high blood pressure like I used to. I had one young lad tail-gate me, pass me like a bat out of --- and about 10 minutes later I came acrossed him stuck in a ditch. I pulled over, asked him if he was okay (he was fine) then politley told him to have a nice day and drove away! (Poetic justice at its best)... Take care... Mike