The Fixer
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- Steve
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- North Jersey
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- 2018 Mojito! JLS, 2018 Firecracker JLUSS
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My JL only has the soft top and is a daily driver. Even in the dead of winter, I haven't missed a hard top. As @aldo98229 said, the rear window is almost impossible to see out of when it gets wet, but you still have side view mirrors, and the side windows usually shed the water so you can see pretty well.Here are a few:
- Rain renders the rear curtain useless; you can't see behind in bad weather. Soft top gets you no rear defogger, no rear wiper, no rear squirter...and rain drops turn the vinyl window into stained glass
- If you park outside, the soft top gives you all the security of Jell-O
- Loading groceries into the back of the Jeep is a 3-step process with the lift glass; it is a 10-step process with the soft top. You need to drop everything, unzip the curtain, roll it up, open the gate, lift your stuff and put it inside, close the gate, roll down the curtain and secure it one more time.
The two-door already has limited cargo space to begin with, so you don't even need to open the rear window to put stuff inside. I just tilt and put my groceries in with the window still in place; there's only enough room for 4 or 5 bags or a couple cases of bottled water.
I agree on the security issue, but that's the way all convertibles are, it's not just a Jeep thing. If you don't leave anything valuable and in plain sight, it most likely will be fine.
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