Well my soft top was a short lived mod. Threw it on Craigslist and had it sold within a few hours. The items I didn't like started to bother me more and more.
1) Height. Though I had known that the hoops to factory soft top adds height to the rig, I didn't take this into consideration. The additional 3" or so it added made it a PITA from a utility perspective. My previous 6'8" jeep was now pretty much a 7' rig.
2) Looks. The sun rider function worked nicely, but the rig IMO looked horrible with all that fabric bunched up on the roof.
3) Functionality. Yes, the top came all the way down, but it just sat as a bunched up mess on top of the Tuffy Deck. End of the world? No, but it looked a fabric company vomited wind flapping black fabric on my deck lid. Wasn't bad with the deck lid removed but then the Jeep wasn't secure at all. At the end of the day, knew I was going to leave it up or use the sun rider function. I couldn't rationalize that when I already have a hard top which could duplicate that function with the removable freedom panels and just a few more pounds.
4)Bestop Trektop NX. With the Trektop NX available in Twill fabric, I thought it might :thinking: be the closest thing to perfect in the marketplace now. Still has the sun rider option, but the rear windows come off to make it a bikini top and the fastback rear looks fantastic. Ordered one that should be here next week. I just dunno when I'll have time to install it for a while after this week.
The only issues I can think of are that the flapping caused by the 50" light bar will still probably be there. I don't believe Mopar or Rugged Ridge Make half door windows with the twill fabric. When I buy half doors, the tops will never match.
