This lasted a day.

[6th Floor Mule]

Tube doors on today for the first time this year . . . top coming off tomorrow?. Pine pollen finally dying down and weather looking good for a couple weeks ?. Just asphalt trails today, but still enjoying every minute!

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[Wapiti]

Hwy speeds are a lot more comfortable with ear plugs. While doorless is loud, the bigger issue is the buffeting so push in plugs like these are quick to shove in and don't limit ambient noise at low speeds enough to be a safety issue. I also run with the front panels installed to keep from stewing in my own juices at stoplights. I'm in the PNW so your results may vary.

 

[JakeM]

Hwy speeds are a lot more comfortable with ear plugs. While doorless is loud, the bigger issue is the buffeting so push in plugs like these are quick to shove in and don't limit ambient noise at low speeds enough to be a safety issue. I also run with the front panels installed to keep from stewing in my own juices at stoplights. I'm in the PNW so your results may vary.

curious, so you have hard top off and doors off, but keep freedom panels on? pic please- thanks

 

[Bryce]

Topless and doorless doesn't bother me at all, but then again, I ride motorcycles too.

 

[JimThomas]

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?

We tried no doors / freedom panels for a day. It was great in town. Felt like we were going to have our faces blown off above 45 mph. Somehow didn't lose the glasses? Turns out there is a reason most cars have doors. So windows up, Sunrider open, maybe even heater on, is a great / fast option.

 

[Overwatch]

I loved no doors and no top, but my wife said the kids needed doors. Tried trading in the wife but the Jeep dealer offer was terrible. (Please Lord don't let my wife read this post!) We now use half-doors with no tops and it really is a little nicer on the long trips. I also second the ear plug idea, I use my shooting plugs that allow me to hear but cut out the wind.

 

[73TAWM]

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)

Our Jeep goes naked all summer long. The top and doors come off around mid April and don't go back on until mid September. I have to where joggers over my shorts in the mornings and a long sleeve shirt until Summer really sets in. We will travel 80+ mph down the freeway with a barefoot leg hanging out on the lower hinge. Traveling to Moab this July, so we got a soft top and plan to remove the top once we get there but unfortunately the doors will be back on. Afraid to drive that far with no doors incase of rain. We used to ride Motorcycle so no doors and speed feels right at home.

 

[RubiSc0tt]

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.

In my old 98 TJ, I once drove from Albany NY to Rausch Creek in PA, no doors, all windows out, because I had no AC, so why not? It was 100 degrees that day. I left late afternoon and probably 4-5 hours later it was just under 80 degrees when I got to the hotel in PA. It was an adventure for sure.

The doors aren't coming off my JLUR until the kids get older. I don't need their things flying out of the Jeep on the road.

 

[rjpjeep]

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)

Put foot pegs on it, world of diff.

 

[Cutterone]

Foot pegs are nice, but those of us with the 6sp can't really afford to have our left foot hanging out the door too much, kinda need it...

 

[jav_eee]

lower the windhield too and the buffeting is gone. Do not drive with mouth open. have fun!

 

[five9dak]

The aero on the JL is different than my TJ was. No doors on the highway is a much rougher experience in the JL.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

I took mine offroad for the first time on Sunday without the doors and SOT open. I told myself that I would just stay out of the mud. I was in the mud within 6 minutes. Worse than the mud was all the dust. We had a group of 20+ Jeeps and you could barely see the black if my interior when we were done.

I did like being able to see obstacles better and the highway speeds of 75 on the road trip didn't bother me at all with earbuds. Wind was blowing 20 mph and it doesn't push the Jeep around as much as it does with the doors on.

I was ready to purchase tube doors before the trip but now I don't think I am going to wheel with the doors off, and I like no doors when in town, so I likely will let it be.

 

[Hookr26]

In early 80's people started looking at me funny when I was belting my babies and toddlers to my front on my 750 honda for a commute or joy rides. The kids loved it. Got lots of less than gleeful looks. Remember this was the high uptake of the helicopter parents. Everybody thought someone was going to steal your kids. People were way to worried about what everyone else was doing.

So I found an answer that let me first take 2 instead of one at a time and then eventually throw the baby in the back, plus my wife got to go too.

It was a used 76 all black CJ5 with hooked headers, edelbrock intake, Holly 2 barrel on the ol faithful inline 6 with about 70+ miles on it. Boy was i wrenching on that thing all the time. It had the aluminum diamond plate from the rocker panel all the way around the back. No tree skid marks on that body. Put some huge 32" AT tires (remember when that was huge). The soft top didn't last to long so winter was a bikini top over the roll cage and my still usable soft doors. I'd throw a tarp over the top when parked in the rain. (Remember when we didn't care if the inside of the jeep got wet?)

My kids, my wife, and I loved it. What a family adventure mobile no matter if it was a trip to the store or an outing to the closest road to, who knows where.

Now that was 23yo. @65 wife and I like our Jlu's and looking forward to pulling the doors and taking the grandkids for rides this summer. I got the one touch. She went for the normal hard top.

Had a planned Moab trip last year with the kids/grandkids before they closed everything but at full transmission failure @45k on my 2021 Rubicon diesel 2 months before the trip and we missed it. Jeep made good but didn't get it fixed till a few weeks after the planned trip despite dealer trying hard to make it happen. Renting the second jeep plus the trip was unfortunately out of our pocket book range.

So Moab is next year if we can come up with the $$$ again.

 

[Hookr26]

Do you use a cab cover when it's parked or overnight to keep elements out? If so, which one? I'm eyeing the Rain Gear cover but curious as to how well it keeps out rain. If it does well, then I would go doorless more.

I use to just throw a tarp over my CJ5 in Seattle on rainy days/nights when stopped.

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