This lasted a day.

[Pixelsmack]

I really enjoyed it but wow. Yeah this is best left for trails. Daily driving around town was a bit intense. Especially on the highway. I'm a big guy too. Which means I tend to...start to....fall out when making right turns. HAH! Still, looks great! (doors now back on, windows I keep off)

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[Remorseless]

You get used to it. Eventually 3 or 4 hours topless/doorless on the highway, while tiring from the wind noise, is nothing from a nerves perspective.

 

[JJ_WA]

I really enjoyed it but wow. Yeah this is best left for trails. Daily driving around town was a bit intense. Especially on the highway. I'm a big guy too. Which means I tend to...start to....fall out when making right turns. HAH! Still, looks great! (doors now back on, windows I keep off)

They make tube-based "doors" for that kind of issue (and local laws that frown upon no doors at all). https://www.quadratec.com/p/quadratec/tube-doors-wrangler-jl-gladiator-jt/front-tube-doors for example.

 

[yokramer]

Doors off for me has become an around town only thing, its no more nerve wracking than riding a motorcycle for me if not feeling a bit safer. Worst part is the wind noise that you dont really deal with on a bike.

 

[C.Sco]

You get used to it. Eventually 3 or 4 hours topless/doorless on the highway, while tiring from the wind noise, is nothing from a nerves perspective.

I agree. I had never been in a Jeep on the highway with no doors before until last summer, and at first it felt very, very weird and unsafe. But after a day or two it felt normal, and I could just enjoy the fresh air. Then after the doors went back on, it felt weird and claustrophobic

The wind noise is really something though. I commute 3 hours on the highway every day, and after getting there it always felt like I just walked out of a death metal concert. I solved that by just buying another car for commutes.

 

[Pape]

Rest your left feet on the bottom door hinge will help you control your body movement when you turn. You can also use your knee / thigh as a rest place for your arm holding the steering at the 7/8 o clock position.

 

[WhereRU_A-A-Ron]

To each their own. I am literally counting the days to this weekend when I can rip off my doors and switch to the soft top.

 

[Reinen]

Don't feel bad. I firmly believe the image of topless/doorless far exceeds the reality of topless/doorless. It's a fun place to visit but there's a long list of valid reasons why you wouldn't want to live there.

Especially in the western desert which can get ridiculously brutal with sunburn, sweat and dust.

Call me a wuss all you want, I'll still take my dust-free UV protected cool bubble.

 

[Rubi SoHo]

Don't feel bad. I firmly believe the image of topless/doorless far exceeds the reality of topless/doorless. It's a fun place to visit but there's a long list of valid reasons why you wouldn't want to live there.

Especially in the western desert which can get ridiculously brutal with sunburn, sweat and dust.

Call me a wuss all you want, I'll still take my dust-free UV protected cool bubble.

100% this. I loved to drive without roof and doors when I was in my early 20’s and had my first jeep. Now I don’t really care for it. I have a soft top that goes on in the spring, and I’d take the doors off for a trail run, but even most of the warm season I drive around with the soft top fully buttoned up. I appreciate the noise reduction, and lack of wind buffeting. Maybe I’m just getting old?

 

[Opus]

Tube doors, ftw. Relatively inexpensive and provide a little extra safety around corners.

 

[Philly_]

It’s definitely not for everyone, but you do get used to it.

Since getting my license at 16 and my first jeep shortly after, I’ve always had the doors off as often as possible. I don’t like it for longer highway drives, but anything under an hour and I’m fine.

To maximize my doors off time, I had a set of two piece fabric soft doors on my last jeep for the summer months that I would drive to work with, and then break down and throw in the back at lunch so I could head home doorless. They did leak and had trouble with buffeting a highway speeds, so it was actually better than when I had them on in the cold mornings and rainy weather.

On my JL, I have half doors and throw the uppers in the back after work. Not quite as good of an experience as fully doorless, but they hold up perfectly at highway speeds and are completely water tight for bad weather.

Personally, the most annoying thing to me about being doorless or having the half door uppers out is that I have longer hair than I used to and it’s always crazy looking after driving. It’s also hard to keep a hat on if there’s any crosswind so that’s not a great solution either… but worth it!

 

[WreckEm711]

I love them off around town, but hate it when I'm at any kind of considerable speed, the wind buffeting can be brutal.

 

[CptFloridaMan]

To help the gf get used to the no door thing I borrowed a set of tube doors from my uncle and she loved it. Imo just for the fact of feeling like falling out mid corner the tube doors helped a lot.

 

[Heimkehr]

Possibly I'm inured to the wind and noise from years on two wheels, but driving sans doors (which for me means the top is also lowered) isn't nearly as gloom & doom as might be imagined. Granted, I tend to use B roads when I'm able, which have lower average speeds and considerably less oncoming traffic.

 

[Phrank]

Give it a chance. The ability to remove the doors is the only reason I've owned Wranglers. With very little exception I'm doors off and in safari mode May through October. Blast the heat (heated seats and steering wheel included) when it's chilly and crank up the AC when it's hot. For reference, my Wrangler is my DD, and my daily commute is 25 minutes each way - at least half of which is interstate highway driving.

Putting the doors back on as winter approaches each year is by far the saddest day of the year for me.

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