Broken into - sliced soft top

[PandaJL]

Just replace the window, park in the same place, put something valuable looking in there. You and a few friends dress in all black and hide in the bushes. When they come back, ambush them with paintball guns until they fall down then just light them up in the face point blank range for 80-100 rounds. Immediately pour tattoo ink on their face. They'll be nice and bloodied up, shamed to high heaven and will have their face tattooed with welts for days and ink forever.

I challenge your insurance company to come up with a more fun solution than that.

You. I like you.

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[grimmjeeper]

I had a soft top Jeep for 6 years. Never locked the doors. People rummaged through the Jeep, including the glove box 3 times. Never cut a window. Important stuff was safe in the tuffy center console.

No guarantee that an unlocked Jeep means they won't cut the window. But locked doors pretty much guarantees they will.

 

[AlgUSF]

I had a soft top Jeep for 6 years. Never locked the doors. People rummaged through the Jeep, including the glove box 3 times. Never cut a window. Important stuff was safe in the tuffy center console.

No guarantee that an unlocked Jeep means they won't cut the window. But locked doors pretty much guarantees they will.

Which is a bummer because the JL Wrangler soft top quarter window is so easy to remove from the outside. I locked my keys in my JL and had the rear door open within a minute. Locking the door deters the casual thief "trying door handles" however an even mildly determined thief could get into the vehicle with almost no effort. I'm not sure if the Trektop is as similarly easy to non-destructively open.

After this article I'm looking into the Tuffy even though my Jeep is typically garage kept at night and I have a hardtop on for vacations.

 

[grimmjeeper]

Which is a bummer because the JL Wrangler soft top quarter window is so easy to remove from the outside. I locked my keys in my JL and had the rear door open within a minute. Locking the door deters the casual thief "trying door handles" however an even mildly determined thief could get into the vehicle with almost no effort. I'm not sure if the Trektop is as similarly easy to non-destructively open.

After this article I'm looking into the Tuffy even though my Jeep is typically garage kept at night and I have a hardtop on for vacations.

I look at it this way.

Let the casual thieves trying the door knobs in. Don't keep anything valuable laying out inside. Keep it locked in something like the Tuffy console. If it keeps people from cutting the soft top, you're ahead of the game.

 

[aville65]

Yeah, I was able to duct tape it up for now.

Leaving it unlocked I’m torn on. I’d be worried someone would camp in it overnight and it would stink to high heaven. I’ve also heard if the vehicle is stolen while unlocked it isn’t covered, but I’m not sure how anyone would know. Certainly will be tempted if it happens again….

You need to get out of the city.

 

[jo_xj]

Sorry to hear about this. Mine's a full-time soft top also, and I worry about this.

You've reminded that one of my first wishlist items before receiving my Jeep was the tuffy center console lock box. I had forgotten about that. Going to order it now...

 

[PandaJL]

You need to get out of the city.

The “person camping in it” is probably unlikely. I just hear about that sort of thing in SF and it makes me wonder if that would happen here - I havent heard of it here yet. There are 2 soft top Porsches on my street and a Miata, I’m shocked I was the only one targeted. Lucky for them though because a replacement would be much harder.

 

[BullMoose1776]

Sorry this happened...I literally chose a hard top because of all the soft top slice in's I have been told about over the years.

Still wish I had a soft top!

 

[Moblrn]

I use a cover all the time because I never have a garage. If I'm parking in a parking garage I still use it. Usually because it would be wet from the early morning dew and I didn't want that sitting in the back all day. It would be dry by the afternoon and I didn't have to worry about parking under a seam in the upper floor where who knows what seeps through all too often.

Rod

 

[NWJeepr]

Oh that sucks Been there, had that happen, with a JK. Bestop sold me the replacement windows. We parked it downtown one night while meeting some friends, and we completely emptied it out before we left home. We left the doors unlocked on purpose. Some a-hole still took the opportunity to rip out the rear corner, tearing the side window from its zipper, and destroying the zipper on the rear window. Total replacement cost of the windows and a new zipper sewn in was less than our deductible.

 

[bradcrc]

No guarantee that an unlocked Jeep means they won't cut the window. But locked doors pretty much guarantees they will.

yep, exactly. I've owned jeeps for 30 years, and it's fairly common to hear about people with unlocked doors and the thief still slices the soft top to get in. It's a double insult.

They have the plan when they approach, whether it''s break the window or slice the top, grab and go. and it's frankly quicker and easier to do that than even check the door handle, takes them one second to break a window or slice the top open.

 

[SouthCo]

Telling people to leave their doors unlocked to let low life criminals rummage through their vehicles is BS. It's like giving in to a misbehaving kid because it's easier. Forget that. I would not live somewhere that has that mentality. Either the police or I would be catching those low life criminals and they better hope it's the police catching them lol....

 

[Sparty]

Telling people to leave their doors unlocked to let low life criminals rummage through their vehicles is BS. It's like giving in to a misbehaving kid because it's easier. Forget that. I would not live somewhere that has that mentality. Either the police or I would be catching those low life criminals and they better hope it's the police catching them lol....

Everything you said is accurate, but in the end, you still have a sliced soft top.

I treat my Jeep like I do when it's topless/doorless. Nothing of value is left in (unless in a Tuffy, etc), and the doors when the soft top is on are NEVER locked.

20 Years later and not one incident (including any bums sleeping in my Jeep)

 

[mgarciaknight]

Sucks dude. I have a soft top too and love it, but crap like this makes you rethink things.

https://www.insideedition.com/media...-police-department-to-create-task-force-81885

Interesting story. You gotta get past the advertisement, but then look at this story that happened to a fellow Jeep owner (Gladiator). Don't really think it matters if its soft top or hard top.

 

[Jeepalady17]

Oh that sucks Been there, had that happen, with a JK. Bestop sold me the replacement windows. We parked it downtown one night while meeting some friends, and we completely emptied it out before we left home. We left the doors unlocked on purpose. Some a-hole still took the opportunity to rip out the rear corner, tearing the side window from its zipper, and destroying the zipper on the rear window. Total replacement cost of the windows and a new zipper sewn in was less than our deductible.

Yep had my JK hardtop and windows sliced in Albuquerque.. Cops said they are s busy with car break-ins it took 2 hours for them to come and get a report.. They even said stay away from that city if you can avoid it. Such a shame that a lovely city like that has been over run with car thieves..I now have a hardtop ...

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