Why don’t more people drive naked?

[TheDerb]

This little chart right here: See #4. Every year, as soon as it hits 70 degrees (around this time of year, as a matter of fact), Danielle Breezy, the ubiquitous local weather woman, tells us it's gonna be sunny for a week. If that happens on a Monday, we will have until about... Wednesday before it changes to thunderstorms. This continues to happen until it is so hot that your body cannot properly self regulate due to the humidity and the temperature, so you are forced to put the top and doors back on so that you don't end up looking sweatier than Matthew McConnaughey in "A Time To Kill" 30 seconds after you walk into whatever place you are going to.

FWIW, I do have my top and doors off more often than most because my truck is a second vehicle and it just gets the rain gear cover even if its storming, but its a real pain-in-the-A here in Tennessee to go topless and doorless.

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[Minty JL]

Hang out with my wang out?????

 

[gunsnrods]

I have an Overland with the factory soft top. Once the weather gets nice I peel the soft top back. That’s it. I have never removed it, have never considered removing the doors. Have owner two Wrangler soft tops, never removed their doors either.
What I do keeps me and my stuff inside my Jeep. It is parked inside at night, no security issue with my backseat full of junk.
My Jeep is a pickup, use it as such, it is pretty cool to have a convertible in our beautiful Idaho sunshine.

 

[wchevron]

I like going naked as often as possible. That's one of the main reasons I bought it.

Mostly depends on the weather. If thinking of taking the doors off and it's going to rain in a day or two, I'll usually keep them on until the rain is past. I wouldn't mind taking them off and on every 2-3 days but every time I put the driver door back on, the connector pins don't line up exactly and my door locks or mirrors stop working, no matter how careful I am putting the connector back together. Sometimes everything works, then the next time the keyless locks stop working, next time it's the mirrors. The soft top is down most of the summer.

 

[ColaJoe]

I would like some feedback or some help understanding why more people that own gladiators or wranglers don’t take the doors and top off when the weather is nice. I have a hard top Mojave and whenever the weather gets 73 or higher I take the doors and entire top off. The reason I bought a gladiator was for the truck bed, off road potential and the ability to take the doors and top off. The way I see it is if you’re not going to do that why get a jeep. There are other options out there with bigger engines and towing capacity. I get that some owners are soccer moms and young kids that just think it looks cool but I’ve driven by guys my age in their forties on a nice day with the windows up. I just don’t get it. Give me some different perspectives please. Thanks

During the summer in South Carolina there's a good chance around 4:00 every day that you're going to get a hard downpour for about 20 minutes and then it stops. It's just a pain to have to stop to put tops back on every day.

 

[gladicanuck]

Freedom panels: Off whenever I can. That means not yet for commute, since I go over a 1450m mountain that still has snow.

Back of top: Off sometimes in summer. I love it, but I only have a carport, and my town has crime, so usually put it back on same day I take it off.

Doors: Local law says I can't, and the only time this was tested the court said the cop was right to say even tubes were not enough door to be legal (this is particularly questionable reasoning where the judge explained it due to a commercial vehicle inspection standard that said door seals should keep exhaust gasses out of the cabin, and therefore if doors didn't do that they weren't valid, and apparently this judge has never heard of OPENING THE WINDOW)

 

[Gvsukids]

During the summer in South Carolina there's a good chance around 4:00 every day that you're going to get a hard downpour for about 20 minutes and then it stops. It's just a pain to have to stop to put tops back on every day.

Sunrider is great for that.

 

[John in the Woods]

I strip every chance I get. Mopar cab cover is my insurance against rain. And I can always hide in the tent.

 

[Janster]

Late to the party.... Got the JT in March. We got our hard top hoist setup and bought a 'door cart' - so now... it only takes 10-15 minutes to actually get naked.

However - this is our 2nd vehicle and it needs to be *at the ready* to drive anytime, anywhere, regardless of weather. Just this month, we had 2 weeks of 90+ temps and NO RAIN. So yes, I was naked for 2 weeks. I'm completely covered up now..... threats of thunderstorms everyday.
My husband and I are soooo busy right now prepping for holiday parties/plans this week. No time to get naked and no time to enjoy it.

It'll be on a weekend-to-weekend basis and depends on the weather.

I am searching for temporary rain protection (while naked) but don't have room to store both a hard top & soft top. But, we'll see.....

Whichever works.... freedom panels off only.... or FP & hard top off only....or everything, doesn't matter. I enjoy all of it !! Just can't enjoy it all the time.

 

[Mad Mac]

Buy another one.

Keep one naked in the garage.
Keep the other one outside in the driveway.

Full disclosure: My naked one is a 1998 Sahara TJ.

 

[chaosjake]

Who are these people who love suffering in the heat? For me, the freedom panels and front doors come off anytime the forecast for the day says sunny and high temperatures between 60°F (50° if the wife isn't going) and 79°F. Anything over 80 and I'll have the doors on and AC maxed out. Rear doors and roof stay on to contain the dog.

 

[JT1]

Who are these people who love suffering in the heat? For me, the freedom panels and front doors come off anytime the forecast for the day says sunny and high temperatures between 60°F (50° if the wife isn't going) and 79°F. Anything over 80 and I'll have the doors on and AC maxed out. Rear doors and roof stay on to contain the dog.

Yeah exactly. Heat indexes of 110* are miserable, even if you're moving the entire time.

 

[Zachanadandy]

If you actually use it for its off road ability, especially out west, you'll realize there are very few trails that are not far more enjoyable with the top and doors on and climate control. Snow wheeling? Forget the idea of driving naked. Desert running? Way too hot, sand is a bitch to get out of everything, and skin cancer. Mountain trails? There's another mud hole that you have to cross and now you're trying to get mud out of the carpets and ac vents and everywhere else for weeks. High elevation camping? It's in the 20⁰s or lower in the morning, I'll keep my top/doors/ seat heaters thanks. Even driving around town when the weather's nice, now I can't even stop at a 2nd store, etc when I'm out as there's no way to secure whatever I bought at the 1st one and people suck. If I wanted all the inconvenience of a motorcycle I wouldn't be driving a damn full sized vehicle but you do you. Of course if I need to pick up some 14' boards the top comes off.

 

[legacy_etu]

Weather and road regulations.

Up to now haven't even removed the tops. But I am going to Corsica in May and plan to do some topless trips on the island.

EU regs don't allow door removal? It's June , any stories/pictures of your May trip?


As for driving nekkid: I need to get a roof storage solution done first. I'm in the process of buidling a door storage cart so that will help a ton once that's done. With my JK I used to be able to back in and lift the top off with cam lock straps and let it hang from the ceiling. The JT is too long and I can't use the same type of setup. either backing in or pulling in forwards. Everything is just in the wrong spot. ugh. Think I'm gonna build a storage cart for the yard to place it on.

My son has the Jk now, pretty much have let him take it over. For graduation they have a senior parade and we took everything off for that. While he has ridden in the Jeep many times nekkidd, now he's even more enthusiastic about removing the top whenever he can.

 

[PBCounty]

My Sunrider is open 50% of the time. I have a co-worker who is on his second JL, and has never even taken the freedom panels off of either one. I don't get it.

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