They don't bother me. If you are willing to rip them out, just don't use them.I can see they will be sagging AF in a couple of years, just like JK.
Is there a way to safely rip them off without damaging door panel?
This can't be safe. Airbag deployment will make that tray (and everything in it) a a projectile. Even if the tray is not positioned directly in front of the airbag.I wonder if one could glue a few small (bigger than any hole in the netting) neodymium magnets to the door panel on the side of the netting closest to the door, and then put a few neodymium magnets on the passenger's side of the netting, each against a glued magnet to keep the netting close to the door.
Side note, I bought this the other day. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VLL84F3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
it's yet to arrive. It doesn't interfere with the front passenger's air bag. Clearly, if you're an offroader where your "co-pilot" needs to completely wrap that hand(s) around that glovebox grab handle then this isn't for you. But I got it because front passenger real estate to put things down, IMHO, seems somewhat limited.
Sal, something like you're proposing was what I first drew up a pattern for but I did not prototype it. I was looking for a way to prevent having to drill holes to mount. I am not confident in 3M tape by itself for a long term mount. I can see about building one up for a test sometime if people would be willing to drill a few mounting holes and if you did not want the netting on the inside, people would have to be willing to cut it away. These would also be a cheaper option as they would be a lot less leather.
Did you ever end up producing these? My nets are stretched and it's actually resulted in chipped paint on the passenger side.A couple of members have asked me for a leather solution to these nets. Unfortunately FCA designed these nets so that they are not removable and the whole door panel needs to be replaced if the netting is an issue. Because of this I wasn't too enthused about prototyping anything. However I had some time so I thought I would give a couple of ideas a try. Here is one of them. It is all leather, attached using 3M double sided tape on the back and the netting (in which any excess from sagging) is rolled up under the front snap panel. Note I am not making these yet and the one pictured is a prototype so it is not perfect., Just thought I would post here for thoughts, input, insight and of course critique (humorous preferred but not required)
Unfortunately not. As you are probably aware Jeep decided to make the netting as part of the door panel and I do not have a real secure way of attaching them besides 3M tape without having to drill into the door panel. Another issue is that due to the seat placement they would be hard to access when the door is closed. The same company that made the plastic ones for JKs are also making them for JLs
Mine were too, until my wife put a big bottle of lotion in there and stretched it out. It would be great if they returned to their original shape, but they don't.
That's why--for those of us who can afford it--we trade in every couple of years.
