One thing that sucks about my jeep......slammed doors!

[jebsurf]

You know....we might be on to something here fellas. I have a soft top and compression of the cabin air on a soft top vs a hard top makes complete sense! On hard top you will have no flex for the air, but on a soft top you have plenty of flex for the cabin air to go somewhere. I never thought about that before.

Crazy for sure and never thought about that

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[Pescado]

Same here....always telling my wife "go easy"

I was showing the JT to a coworker when I first got it and he said "let me see how these doors sound" and slammed the shit out of it...he was impressed and I was pissed

 

[ShadowsPapa]

You know....we might be on to something here fellas. I have a soft top and compression of the cabin air on a soft top vs a hard top makes complete sense! On hard top you will have no flex for the air, but on a soft top you have plenty of flex for the cabin air to go somewhere. I never thought about that before.

Crazy for sure and never thought about that

Big difference with a window rolled down or the back window open. Very different sound and yeah, the doors close so easy it's easy to slam them then - but I park with windows up almost all the time, even in the garage because otherwise wasps and other stuff get in.

 

[NC_Overland]

Top on or off? Top on, no. Top off or windows down. Absolutely. It’s annoying AF.

 

[PhantomChameleon]

Yep, happens to me too! Doors are always getting slammed.

Also, the soft top pressure thing making the doors harder to shut is 100% a thing, my old Wrangler with the soft top was the same way. I had to shut the doors extra firmly to make sure they shut all the way.

 

[bastage]

See then there is me... And as Dad joke as it is EVERYTIME someone new gets in my jeep (its been naked for a while) I abruptly yell "HEY, quit slamming my $%&@ing doors".. Everyone has given me a embarrassed sorry look at first & then realized there are no doors to slam.

I do think I need to put the doors back on soon. Its starting to get chilly & while it doesn't bother me much both my girlfriend & daughter have been complaining quite a bit. I never noticed anyone slamming them before though.

 

[canyonrat]

This issue has caused more "disputes" with my wife than I can count across 7 years of JK and almost a year of JT with alternating tops on both. The key I think is that it's not a big heavy solid car door... keep your hand on the handle of the door the whole time and it will close just fine regardless of backpressure or hard/soft top. It is the "momentum slam" that causes problems.

 

[Ringmaster]

The key I think is that it's not a big heavy solid car door... keep your hand on the handle of the door the whole time and it will close just fine regardless of backpressure or hard/soft top. It is the "momentum slam" that causes problems.

My Dad was a "car guy" and taught me to close the car doors this way since I was a youngster. Now if we can just educate others to do the same.........

 

[Slyboots2313]

Happens all the time in mine. I think they’re all used to having to slam the doors on the JK all those years. The new hinge arm (whatever its technical term is) pretty much shuts the door on its own in the JT

 

[redrider]

Mine did the exact same thing and when I gave her $hit for it she got mad at me and said, 'it's not going to break anything'. I literally thought she would shatter the glass (window was rolled down) she slammed it so hard.

Women must always have the last word. It is why the chatter never ends and the conversation does not stay on subject.

 

[Warman]

Agree on the not slamming part but the sound of a properly shut door is so substantial. It’s more authoritative than my F-350.

 

[Jeepdre]

Same here, but boy tell my wife to be careful lol I had to get used to it.

 

[Alan_Hepburn]

I have trained my wife to "push" the doors closed, rather than "slam" them. When you slam them they tend to rebound and it makes them more difficult to latch. But, if you keep moderate pressure on them as you close them you don't have to be as forceful on them!

 

[1OffCraz]

I have to tell my wife not to slam the door every time!

Problem solved... I removed the doors.
But I still tell not to slam it. That gets a one finger salute every time. But no slammed door

 

[Blade1668]

Slamming doors is something that will always piss me off. It started with my first vehicle.. that had power locking doors. Someone slammed door shut broke the door latch inside door and power lock. Had to disassemble door with shut to be able to open it and fix it. Nothing special about that 10 year old car but I tried to take care of it. That started me down the road for getting pissed off about slamming doors. My second car I owned that you had to slam the door on 72 T-bird.

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