You can only drive your Gladiator one way. Which do you choose?

[Yolobaggins]

Which one?

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[Lunentucker]

Roof and doors on. Windows up. Heat/AC as needed.

 

[Barnaby’sdad]

Mine stays in the garage with the panels off, doors on, and windows down. Ready to roll. If it’s a bit chilly, that’s what the heater is for.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Which one?

Obviously you've never visited where I live or you'd never ask such a thing.
I live where it can be 21 in the am and 70 with severe storms 24 hours later, or 40 in the am and minus 10 by 5pm..........
Then we have July with a 91 degree dewpoint and 100% humidity.

if I had to have doors and/or roof off, I'm afraid it would sit 11 months out of the year.
It's a truck and a daily driver - not a toy, sorry.
Sounds like a Florida question to me. But hey, even they get really nasty weather... Ian, anyone?

 

[rockymountainhigh]

Roof off, doors off, then freedom panels back on as a hard bikini top. This is my fave configuration. I try and run it like this most of the summer/fall. Then it's all back on for the front range snow season...

 

[Summitsearcher]

Roof off and only Sunrider on. I carry a cab cover for unexpected rains.

 

[Broccoli]

Roof on/doors off in the summer.

 

[onewhippedpuppy]

I bake in the summer with the roof off, so typically just pull the doors.

 

[Lunentucker]

Obviously you've never visited where I live or you'd never ask such a thing.
I live where it can be 21 in the am and 70 with severe storms 24 hours later, or 40 in the am and minus 10 by 5pm..........
Then we have July with a 91 degree dewpoint and 100% humidity.

if I had to have doors and/or roof off, I'm afraid it would sit 11 months out of the year.
It's a truck and a daily driver - not a toy, sorry.
Sounds like a Florida question to me. But hey, even they get really nasty weather... Ian, anyone?

They're listed as Virginia.
Unless there's another Virginia that I don't know about it's pretty much as you described Iowa, but not quite as cold.
We're in pollen season now, so everything stays buttoned up tight.
Warmer weather on the horizon, but pop up showers could catch you wishing you had a top or doors. So top and doors off are carefully planned.

Perhaps a better question would've been, "What's your preferred level of nakedness?"

 

[Labswine]

Doors on, roof on. Freedom panels on in the winter, BestTop SunRunner on and open when possible in the late spring through mid Fall.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

They're listed as Virginia.
Unless there's another Virginia that I don't know about it's pretty much as you described Iowa, but not quite as cold.
We're in pollen season now, so everything stays buttoned up tight.
Warmer weather on the horizon, but pop up showers could catch you wishing you had a top or doors. So top and doors off are carefully planned.

Perhaps a better question would've been, "What's your preferred level of nakedness?"

Not pollen season yet here. We did notice as we went through TN and KY that the trees were getting green as was the grass. It was mid-40s there at the time, way colder back home with ice and snow and near blizzard conditions. It can get to the minus numbers and stay there as happened in the 80s. The daytime highs were minus 20 for a week, then it got up to 0 for a couple of days and I got hot doing chores. It can be crazy up and down. And it's almost always windy.
That's one reason we have top and doors on most of the time. It literally takes your breath away and will purge the cabin of anything not bolted down.


The top 5 windiest states are: Nebraska (1), Kansas (2), South Dakota (3), North Dakota (4), and Iowa (5). The top 5 least windy states are: Mississipi (1), Florida (2), Kentucky (3), Georgia (4),and Alabama (5).

The pop-up storms can be killers here and strike with no warning. It just doesn't pay. It's one reason I sold my motorcycle a few years ago. The chances to enjoy it were so few.

 

[WILDHOBO]

I voted doors on, roof off, but it wasn’t easy. Where I am, the dust is so bad that we’d constantly be coated with fine dust. If I lived somewhere else, the doors would always be off. Mine also doesn’t fit in the garage, so the doors would need to go back on after every drive. Even with a cab cover, animals would move in within 24 hours. I hate voting logistically, and not emotionally. It would have gone the other way.

 

[obrianmcc]

Roof and doors on. Windows up. Heat/AC as needed.

This .... and also to keep the dust out. I have a Sunrider for when on the road.

 

[Syndula]

When I read the name of the thread I instantly thought "Forward" as reverse may get difficult...

For me front doors off and the sunrider open, mainly due to small kiddos in the back seats.

 

[drewcnit]

Roof on, Doors On - Winter
Roof on, Doors on, Sunrider on - Spring, Fall
Roof on, Sunrider on, Doors off - Summer

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