Loved the 3 piece hard top until....
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JK Enthusiast
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From: Buffalo, NY
Loved the 3 piece hard top until....
Until I put on the soft top....
The Jeep drives better with more acceleration with the weight of the hard top removed
The sunrider is way better than the freedom top panels. Not need to store anything, ect
Better visibility out of the back window
Feels more like a Jeep with the soft top on
Doesn't leak
I'm dreading the day I have to put the hard top back on but I am going to enjoy every minute of this soft top...
The Jeep drives better with more acceleration with the weight of the hard top removed
The sunrider is way better than the freedom top panels. Not need to store anything, ect
Better visibility out of the back window
Feels more like a Jeep with the soft top on
Doesn't leak
I'm dreading the day I have to put the hard top back on but I am going to enjoy every minute of this soft top...
JK Enthusiast
Joined: Dec 2007
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From: Huntersville, NC
Way better than hardtop?
Well.... to each his own. Both have their uses. After being a previous jeep owner the last thing I wanted was a soft top. The top gets hard to clean after a few years, tears are a pain, putting on an off was no fun, the back window was easy to break at the point where it tucked under, plastic windows would tear or have to be cleaned so as to remove scratches, and if you had half doors the plastic windows were a pain at drive-throughs...not the mention the life of the soft top was about 5 years and $500 to replace. Did I mention the noise.
But yep....it sure is cool just to slide it back and go. I just did not want to deal with the soft top. I now have to deal with someplace to put the front hard top panels when they are off. What we need is a automatic hard top like in the BMW....(in a jeep??)
Well.... to each his own. Both have their uses. After being a previous jeep owner the last thing I wanted was a soft top. The top gets hard to clean after a few years, tears are a pain, putting on an off was no fun, the back window was easy to break at the point where it tucked under, plastic windows would tear or have to be cleaned so as to remove scratches, and if you had half doors the plastic windows were a pain at drive-throughs...not the mention the life of the soft top was about 5 years and $500 to replace. Did I mention the noise.
But yep....it sure is cool just to slide it back and go. I just did not want to deal with the soft top. I now have to deal with someplace to put the front hard top panels when they are off. What we need is a automatic hard top like in the BMW....(in a jeep??)
JK Enthusiast
Joined: Feb 2008
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From: Phoenix AZ
Way better than hardtop?
Well.... to each his own. Both have their uses. After being a previous jeep owner the last thing I wanted was a soft top. The top gets hard to clean after a few years, tears are a pain, putting on an off was no fun, the back window was easy to break at the point where it tucked under, plastic windows would tear or have to be cleaned so as to remove scratches, and if you had half doors the plastic windows were a pain at drive-throughs...not the mention the life of the soft top was about 5 years and $500 to replace. Did I mention the noise.
But yep....it sure is cool just to slide it back and go. I just did not want to deal with the soft top. I now have to deal with someplace to put the front hard top panels when they are off. What we need is a automatic hard top like in the BMW....(in a jeep??)
Well.... to each his own. Both have their uses. After being a previous jeep owner the last thing I wanted was a soft top. The top gets hard to clean after a few years, tears are a pain, putting on an off was no fun, the back window was easy to break at the point where it tucked under, plastic windows would tear or have to be cleaned so as to remove scratches, and if you had half doors the plastic windows were a pain at drive-throughs...not the mention the life of the soft top was about 5 years and $500 to replace. Did I mention the noise.
But yep....it sure is cool just to slide it back and go. I just did not want to deal with the soft top. I now have to deal with someplace to put the front hard top panels when they are off. What we need is a automatic hard top like in the BMW....(in a jeep??)
Soft top is the way to go!
JK Jedi
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From: Colorado
Both have their pros/cons. Having owned a soft-top only TJ I am actually appreciating the hard-top on my JK, especially since its a daily driver. I do look forward to the day that my JK is strictly a secondary vehicle and I can keep a bikini top on it all summer.
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JK Jedi Master
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I just threw that in to illustrate both opinions are valid and invalid.
And, I wanted an excuse to use an emoticon.
