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Stupid Question - Why did Jeep discontinue the padding on the roll bars?

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I also think it looks cleaner without the pads... but I wish the rollbars weren’t body matched. I’ve been debating having my JL rollbars wrapped, painted, or bed-lined.
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I am glad they are not there, the cage is easier to clean, the sun doesn’t fade out the bars like cloth, and I can mount stuff to current cage easier than padded ones.
 

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Money & weight would be my guess.
 

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The pads aren't going to do a thing for your head in an accident, and your head won't hit them if you're wearing your seatbelt.
An adult in the rear seat might disagree, as 1:09 makes plain.

 

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An adult in the rear seat might disagree, as 1:09 makes plain.


Looks like their head hit the door frame, not the roll bar. And, the padding might help if you bonk your head on the bar getting out, but in a crash like that it won't do anything.
 

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Looks like their head hit the door frame, not the roll bar.
Yes, because a child-sized dummy was used. Scale it up to an adult passenger and consider the potential for injury, seat belt use notwithstanding.

Padding of any construction is better than hard plastic, although its utility in a collision may indeed be limited.
 

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They got rid of them because they had to get rid of 2 people at the plant and chose the person that installs the pads as well as the person that seats the fuses ;)
fuses are seated by the supplier.
 

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A serious answer: There is only 1 reason a company makes a change like this and that is money. It was probably much less expensive, years ago, to simply throw a pad over the roll bars than to paint them properly. But now that robot and paint technology has evolved, it is probably much cheaper to paint. The pads aren't going to do a thing for your head in an accident, and your heaqd won't hit them if you're wearing your seatbelt.
Dang everyone else must be a lot shorter than me that have a JL 🤔 my head's only maybe 1/2 inch away from the thing from the top in my JT. 🙄
But now think about this...
https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/walked-away-from-a-totaled-rubicon.65661/
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