I have a 2013 with 1200 miles on it and have developed a rattle in the front passenger side bow of my premium soft top. It is really bad on the interstate. Went to the dealer today and the service tech told me if rattles bothered me I shouldn't have bought a soft top. Anyone have any ideas of how to adjust or tighten this?
Wow, I have a 2013 JKR on order with the premium soft top & I hope that's not the kind of customer service I can expect from my Jeep dealership. I'm sure someone with knowledge on this will chime in but I wouldn't have left the dealership until they fixed it.
If it didn't rattle when you 1st bought I would think it shouldn't rattle now. I know the JK with the premium top that I test drove didn't rattle at all & was surprisingly quiet at 70+ mph.
Crap customer service. Call Chrysler and give them your experience. And/or go to another dealer that competes with your dealer and tell them your story as a way to trash your dealer. Bet they will bend over to take care of the defect.
After a very pointed conversation with the service manager they are bending over backwards to be nice. They claimed to have adjusted it and it may be a little better but still rattles like crazy at speeds above 65 or so.
It shouldn't have any rattles-presuming you mean rattling of metal bits as opposed to flapping noise of the top. Even with the new top, at highway speeds you can get some fluttering of the top. Absolutely waaaay less than I ever had on the old TJ but it occasionally creeps in.
If this is what you are experiencing, you should try pressurizing the cabin by turning on the heat blower, making sure that the recirculation is off. Should fill right up!
If you are talking metal rattles, maybe the sun rider clips are not seated or something. Are you able to pinpoint where it is coming from-front/back/etc.?
It's definitely metal to metal. I drove a 1999 tj with factory soft top for several years, I know flapping noise lol. It's coming from the passenger side front bow area. I can take my hand and move it to reproduce the sound. It just feels kind of loose to me at that joint, as compared to the driver side.
my '12 soft top rattled at one of the points over the driver's side roll bar. it just stopped at some point by itself. There is quite a bit of lateral play in the sunrider section.
Thanks to everyone for the input. All the movement seems to be up and down. Takes very little effort to reproduce the noise. I tried to take a picture of the exact location but its to dark to see.
Just back from a 150 mile trip in my Jkur with the premium top, it was VERY windy today, no noises or flapping, unless you count when the 18 wheelers passed me going the other direction on the 2 lane...wow! Hope they get you fixed soon...
Just got a 2013 this past weekend. Left the dealership, no noise at all on the freeway. Was very impressed with the soft top. 2 days later however and I have a similar noise on the passenger side. It looks like it is where the sunrider would fold. That joint is bouncing against the track. Best way I can describe it. Going to take the top down tonight and see if I can pin point it.
My premium soft top developed that same noise just the other day with around 1,000 miles on it. It squeaks right where the sunrider hinge is. I'll have to play around with it this weekend and find a good fix.
Sorry I didn't update my solution. It turned out to be a loose rivet at the front passenger bow. Jeep has a factory repair kit, sorry I don't have the part number. The dealer basically drilled out all the rivets on the frame and replaced them with nuts and bolts. Problem solved... For what it's worth the dealership I purchased the jeep from was clueless. Went to another dealership and they diagnosed it without even a test drive, said it was very common problem.
I recently developed an annoying rattle on my passenger side of my soft top. Only at hyw speeds and can be stopped by pushing up on crossbar. I assume its the nader type pin that goes into the hook that needs to be release to put top all the way down.
Is there an adjustment I need to make? I was thinking a couple wraps of tape might quite it, but woul rather do it right if I can.
Any help would e appreciated as its kinda hard to experiment with it since I need the top on and get on hwy. I like neither
ugh, you are speaking my language, i feel like i've had a lot of soft top issues so im sensitive to the rattle.
Do you have the back window zipped in? when i drive with that down on the highway, as you can imagine, it allows air to pool in the back and whip around the cockpit. With that open, the whipping around of the softtop almost completely ceases. maybe try that?
It only happens, or I should say I can only hear it, when everything is buttoned up...
I just went and really looked over it after doing some searches and everything looks the same with the sun rider clips on both sides. I don't see any real adjustments, however I did tighten the door surrponds and they were def looser on my rattlin side. Hope that fixes it...
The top has always to be pulled ever so slightly to the passenger side to make sure it closes correctly, so maybe that has something to do with it?
I had the same issue on a 2013 jku premium soft top. Dealer drilled out all the rivets and replaced them with bolts and nuts. Fixed the problem for me. Mine was done under warranty.
OP: I have the same rattle on my premium top, on same passenger side, at or close to highway speeds and only when everything is closed up. I can see where it is happening but not why.
I had a quick look, and found nothing different than from drivers side.
What do you mean secure those? If I am thinking of the same part you are, its a female slot that slides over a "male" part. I tried to describe that the least dirty way I could too. :surrender:
I have/had that as well. I thought it was the hook that secures the soft top for the Sunrider position. It may rattle side-to-side. I could be wrong though.
Bump. Any one else have suggestions. I've put tape on a couple spots on the sunrider hinge without any luck, yet pushing up on crossbar stops it.
It's driving me batty at this point...
If pushing up on the crossbar stops it check your rivets. Open the top, hold crossbow near the joint and see if you have movement. According to my service guy these joints should be very tight with no movement what so ever. Mine drove me crazy until the dealer drilled out all the rivets and replaced them with bolts. Now it doesn't make a sound.
I had some squeaking/rattling noise with my 2013 JKU premium softtop during winter, but since I have been taking top up and down in warmer weather it seems to have disappeared. I actually forgot all about it until I saw this thread.
Having the exact same rattle. Pushing up on the crossbar above the passenger seat will stop the rattle for a bit but it comes back. Only at highway speeds and it is so annoying! No rattle from the drivers side.
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