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#1 ·
Hi all! I'm about to buy my first Wrangler and what I don't know about JK's would fill a book. I'm leaning toward a soft top with the half doors. Would this be a terrible idea being that I live in Syracuse with our awful winters? I'm not totally against a hard top but will definitely go with a soft top in our short summer. The problem is where do you safely store a hard top. This will be my DD. If you live in a similar environment and have half doors and a soft top please let me know what you think. TIA Orangefan
 
#3 ·
mine came with a hardtop but i got a premium softtop and sold the hardtop but it's much different here...little to no snow. if your jeep is parked outside with wet snow, i wouldn't want a softtop ...

hardtop storage varies whether you have a tall enough garage/carport with a hoist or a storage room. I don't have any so I decided to sell it and pocket the change...

When we did have snow with the hardtop, it kept having condensation inside almost to a point where the rear windows(besides front windows) were all fogged up regardless of how much AC was run....i could not get rid of moisture.
 
#14 ·
While it possibly would take less time if I had help, I can take off and put on my hard top by myself. 4 eye bolts and ratchet straps does the trick. As soon as we are done with the snow here in spring time (wet snow as I type this) I will be doing the switch again!
 
#7 ·
One issue that no one has mentioned yet is that you can't get half doors with a hard top. So if you wanted to run half doors you'd have to buy a seperate set of half doors for the summer, which would be hard to find...unfortunately you can't get a "dual doors" option like you can choose the dual top.

Personally, I was adamant about having half doors. My last jeep (TJ) had them. Very hard to find on dealer lots, at least not with the other options I wanted, so I had to order. Of course, we have pretty mild winters here and never any snow, so running a soft top year round is not much of a concern.
 
#9 ·
Just a thought but with half doors you don't have windows that role down do you? Sorry, not familiar with half doors, had full soft doors on my CJ5 and they were a pain. They're a pain at drive thru's and other times like that, or just cruising down the road on a nice day. I'd go with the full doors and soft top, but that's just my 2 cents.
 
#13 ·
Correct, the windows do not roll down on half doors, they are zippered plastic windows. They are a little bit of a pain at drive throughs and stuff, but as far as cruising down the road on a nice day (or pulling up at a drive through on a nice day, for that matter), it's not a problem because they're stashed behind the back seat.
 
#12 ·
You can always buy a dual top Jeep, and save up to get yourself some Mopar half doors. They will run you about $3500-4000 painted so it's a pretty expensive mod.

I had half doors on my 2014 Willys and loved them, but I live in a mild climate. If I lived where there was tons of snow, I wouldn't get half doors. Terrific during summer though.
 
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