Those BA Gen IIs look mean and I almost bought them last week. But decided instead on old faithful -- Bestop Elements. Got them in 2 days (PRIME!) and stuck them in in about 15 minutes. Easy peasy. The reason I went that way instead of the BA Gen IIs is I wanted the full visibility for crawling that I have with doors off, but wanted some way to block the mud slinging into the cabin. The BAs seem to compromise visibility a bit with the webbing.
So I am rigging a set of clear acrylic 1/8" thick skins for the inside of the Elements, that can be installed at the trailhead with no muss/no fuss. The sheet material should arrive this week and I'll post up a thread on them when I get them installed. (the skins, not the doors. Doors are perfect!)
I feel a lot more protected with my tube doors on than I do with my factory doors on. Not from the elements obviously! The wife didn't like the road whizzing by at 60 mph, and nothing to keep her in her seat should I have to swerve. But more than anything I really like the way they look, and the quality, and uniqueness of them.
I want to run these badly but if it ever starts to rain there's no uppers or anything to block with. Damn Michigan weather makes it difficult to buy the summer mods I want. Seems like such a shame to pay $4k for mopar half doors, you'd think more companies would put out some alternatives.
Or get Elements ($239) and buy an upper kit and a set of the storage bags. Pricey at 329 and 119 respectively, and the storage bag solution doesn't in any way seal. But if your soft top's up and you have the uppers installed and that much of the lowers covered, you're gonna be fine. That's my plan. Right now I just have the Element doors.
Truth is, not sure I'm even gonna add the uppers and storage bags. (I don't need the bag part -- just thinking of them for blocking rain from streaming in.) I drove home today in a good rain with top up and only the Elements -- I stayed very dry. But other times (with no Elements, just doorless) I've gotten pretty wet from back spray coming in from behind. That never happens with the full doors in and windows up, even with the back of my 2-door completely open. So I may splurge on the uppers just to keep from creating that vacuum effect that sucks rain back into the cockpit from behind when I get up to speed.
We were coming home yesterday topless with the tube doors and it started sprinkling, but we just missed the rain, thankfully. We left the house and the radar had no rain, but 40%. Coming back home, there was definitely rain on the radar. Thank goodness we missed it:iamhappy:
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