80 MPH Winds Tests Limits of Bronco Soft Top

[TurnerNHooch]

" Oh noes! My Bronco leaks oxygen in space.... design flaw! Fail!" We really need to temper our expectations on what this vehicle is designed for. Watched the whole video and drove through a blizzard in my soft top. It performed like a champ. I was warm and safe and made it home safely. I can't ask for more.

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[21BL2DR]

so if you are driving 70 mph in an oncoming 80 mph wind are you experiencing 150 mph forces on the soft top?

 

[21BL2DR]

Looks like the midpoint clips (above the rear doors) were not latched. It seems to be a problem with the softtops.

obviously they are not clipped. lucky the entire thing didn't blow off.

 

[Axe]

Remember all those MIC threads where the soft top guys were acting like smug Tesla owners?

 

[Desert_6G]

Who is really dumb enough to drive 78mph during those conditions? And drive across the medium. They are. Really stupid on their part

 

[BroncoAZ]

I seriously can’t stand either one of them. If you stop watching their crap videos they will get demonetized and stop making said crap.

 

[BroncoRick]

4x4 soft tops started doing this since the Jeep JK 4 door top. On the Jeep TJ, the soft top has plastic edge retainers that you fold under the top retainer channel and it doesn't do this. But with the JK, since it has the sunrider feature, Jeep dropped those retainers and used a cable retainer instead so that it would be easier to flip the sunrider portion back. The negative of that is that in any heavy crosswind it will lift the cable-drawn part of the top up like that.

Personally I wish these style soft tops would go back to the Jeep TJ style retainer because there is no possibility of a crosswind blowing it off.

 

[MayhemMike]

Almost doesn’t count.

 

[gigidaho]

More concerned with people who can't get off their fucking phones while driving on the freeway than high winds. What is wrong with these people?

 

[The Dmv]

Yeah that guy has a video up of the soft top opening on the highway in high winds.


So the soft top sucks...at least the hard top is perfect and readily available

Soft tops are gonna leak something, water, snow, air, noise…something. I’d rather sleep under a roof than a tent, same goes for driving.

 

[Ukon]

Who is really dumb enough to drive 78mph during those conditions? And drive across the medium. They are. Really stupid on their part

I was, and still sometimes am!
I didn’t actually watch their video, so can’t speak to their circumstance, but I spent over 30 years in a job where the weather, regardless of how extreme, was not an excuse to not come to work.
I got counseled once for being 15 minutes late in a blizzard, after I had spun around in the middle of a 3 lane highway, and landed in a snow bank.
Now that I’m retired I only engage in such stupidity when I have to drive my wife to/from work when it snows bad enough that she‘s afraid to drive.

 

[2Jeeps&PatriotX1]

4x4 soft tops started doing this since the Jeep JK 4 door top. On the Jeep TJ, the soft top has plastic edge retainers that you fold under the top retainer channel and it doesn't do this. But with the JK, since it has the sunrider feature, Jeep dropped those retainers and used a cable retainer instead so that it would be easier to flip the sunrider portion back. The negative of that is that in any heavy crosswind it will lift the cable-drawn part of the top up like that.

Personally I wish these style soft tops would go back to the Jeep TJ style retainer because there is no possibility of a crosswind blowing it off.

I have the sunrider option on my LJ and it has the retainers you mention.

 

[KEM IA]

The rolled over vehicle has been checked on when there's yellow caution tape on the vehicle. But at least they were concerned.

 

[21BL2DR]

More concerned with people who can't get off their fucking phones while driving on the freeway than high winds. What is wrong with these people?

addicted to attention……social media attention whores. The world is literally filled with millions upon millions of people like this. Driving 78 mph in 80 mph winds ……on the phone…….blabbering non stop ignorant comments.……..and then trying to make it as though there is something wrong with their top? This is all staged ignorance.

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