Soft Top Owners, How Are You Liking It?

[Al Cowlings]

Current soft top owners, how are you liking it so far?

I am really torn on which way to go. In particular, I’d be interested to know how the lift-style opening at the rear is working IRL. I overland my rigs, and often work out of the back in the evenings, cooking dinner and whatnot. My concern is that the inability to flip up the rear plastic window could be a challenge.

I’d be curious to hear from actual owners, not just people who have played with the soft top on a test drive. Thanks in advance.

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[zombie]

I hate everything about it, honestly... I have never used it, I will (very likely) never use it. I'd have preferred a fixed hard top.

The soft top has nothing but negatives for me. I live in a climate that has severe winters, the soft top is not ideal for that (IMO). No rear defrost, no rear wiper and the plastic windows will likely not stand up to snow removal, but time will tell.
As you say, not being able to flip up the rear of the soft top is a negative, but from talking with some jeep drivers, they say their soft tops have a fixed bar above the rear door so they appreciated the fact the back of the soft top was hinged and could be lifted up.

For other people it is quite likely brilliant. I'm just not someone who cares about having a convertible roof on a vehicle.

 

[hauspwr]

I relented to a soft top. All the way back, it's awesome. When it's up, it's functional but not my favorite part of the vehicle. It's not hard to operate. I live in a cold climate in the winter state, so time will tell but I do love the convertible feature. I'll get a hard top eventually for winters. All the way back does impede access to the back but it's a very simple move to flip it back up.

 

[Boris_the_Crawler]

I freaking love mine but I was a soft top from the get go and never even considered a hard top. As far as the propping up in back to get to things I actually do like this feature. My wife has a Wrangler and I have to Tetris like stack things when loading. Bronco hair don’t care!!!

 

[Lilj4425]

I don’t know. I don’t have my Bronco yet. Oh and I live in the south so I don’t mind the soft top at all.

 

[VicDamone]

Wanted a black hard top for my blacked out Bronco but settled for Soft Top just to get by and boy I Love It…So easy to use and really looks great in person.

 

[acnp2022]

I love my soft top. So glad I switched from a hard top. So easy to open and really don't even notice road noise. Not really concerned with winter since there's this new technology in cars called a heater and this other thing called a winter jacket

 

[zznalg]

We just picked up our 4 door soft top two days ago. I've also been concerned about access to the back. Today, I noticed that there are clips on either side of the solid bar that secures the bottom of the rear window. If the rear window is removed, do these clips remove that bar?

 

[NavynutZ]

Soft top is great. however, I live in San Diego so the weather is always good. only way to go for me is with the soft top. The open air experience is awesome

 

[zombie]

We just picked up our 4 door soft top two days ago. I've also been concerned about access to the back. Today, I noticed that there are clips on either side of the solid bar that secures the bottom of the rear window. If the rear window is removed, do these clips remove that bar?

I assume you're talking about the clips to pivot the rear upwards, if so, then no they do not remove the bar.

 

[Karl_in_Chicago]

Soft top is great. however, I live in San Diego so the weather is always good. only way to go for me is with the soft top. The open air experience is awesome

Don't you need a top that seals to keep all the smoke out?

 

[Blitzjb]

Love at first sight. I have only had soft top convertibles for the past 10 years.

 

[NavynutZ]

Don't you need a top that seals to keep all the smoke out?

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[BroncoKong Jr.]

Absolutely love it. So easy to use and the lift-up rear is really useful. The way it folds back is pretty brilliant engineering. I understand that those who are unfamiliar with 4x4 soft tops may not like it, but it's seriously the best top of this type ever.

 

[BroncoKong Jr.]

As you say, not being able to flip up the rear of the soft top is a negative, but from talking with some jeep drivers, they say their soft tops have a fixed bar above the rear door so they appreciated the fact the back of the soft top was hinged and could be lifted up.

You can't flip up the rear of the soft top in a current Jeep like you can on a Bronco. In older Jeeps you could unzip the rear except for the to and roll it up, but that's not a thing anymore.

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