Do's and Don'ts of riding with the top down
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Zhillslady
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Florida requires a drivers side mirror (got a warning ticket for that last week). I asked a friend that with SCHP and he gave me this and said they read it as only requiring a rear view mirror so you'd likely not get a ticket.
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Every motor vehicle which is so constructed or loaded as to obstruct the driver's view to the rear thereof from the driver's position shall be equipped with a mirror so located as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway for a distance of at least two hundred feet to the rear of such vehicle."
Zhillslady
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LOL my TJ rarely drive interstate speeds. I rarely put my upper doors on but I'm just not real comfortable on the road with my lower doors off so my mirrors are on. I did see a set of aftermarket ones that my son in law offered to get me that bolt on the jeep, not the doors.
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Jeeze, @billiebob , you're taking a lot of crap over that one... I'm guessing that sarcasm is a dying art or something. Maybe the flippant reply is over some folks heads.
yeah but Shelly was probably sincere in asking... I should have been a bit less flippant... mind you I realized someone would correct it. Gotta have a bit of fun.
I actually rarely remove the top but I drive doorless all summer. Love the air.. hate direct sun.
I actually rarely remove the top but I drive doorless all summer. Love the air.. hate direct sun.
I"m sure @Shelly was. She'll get used to us though, I'm sure. I drive with the top down as much as I can. Lost a few things like gas receipts and miscellaneous pieces of paper. The only notable loss was a micro kite that was in the glove box. Wife opened the glove box up looking for her sun glasses and the kite blew out, never to be seen again. That was on the interstate at about 65 mph. Did hit the eject button on a two way radio that was sitting in the tray on top of the dash when the grandson and I were out tooling around the woods one day. Made a hard left hand turn (don't ask) and the radio shot off the dash and out the passenger side. It took us about five minutes to find it in the brush we were laughing so hard. Didn't seem to hurt the radio any.
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Hope my kids like riding with the top down lolThere are good mirrors that will stay put, and some bad mirrors that will be loose and vibrate back out of position from what I read. Where I go I would want mirrors on so I could see those motorcycles and smaller 4 wheelers come up IF I ran doors off there like most do because I am not running a bunch of lift plus massive tires and have to be very careful where I put my wheels. This means I am swerving back and forth on the trail moving slow and the others moving fast come up fast- if they pass they die if i don't see them. With the dust, rapid weather change, 48-60 degree temps and my allergies I run doors on. It will boil down Shelley to where it is you want to drive and how careful you can be. If it is going to the mall- go door free!!!
You'll be fine if the child in the back stays asleep and has head down
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Zhillslady
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hmmmm mine doesn't look like that. LOL
Zhillslady
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Mine looks like this unless I use the backseat. My top is from besttop and just slightly different cause I have a sound bar across the top but you get the idea.
Yup, the wife has already passed the word that she is not riding in the TJ with the doors off. Or the windshield down. Loves the top being off when the weather gets warm. The grand-kids absolutely love it though. I made the mistake of telling them that they were supposed to put their arms up in the air and yell Whoo-hoo! when we hit a bump or a whoop-de-doo in the road. The neighbors for miles around think I'm crazy now. We were tooling down a farm to market road last fall, doing about 25 - 30 mph. Youngest grandson was watching the world go by out the side of the Jeep and said "Papa, your Jeep is so fast!". It's been worth the price of admission just to expose the grand-kids to Jeep'n.
UPJOHN
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We have 5 grand kids. My oldest grandson, is almost 15, is hoping that I let him use my Jeep when he gets his drivers license. He is 6'4" tall. If he grows any taller he won't fit.
Wife already told oldest grand-son that's he's learning to drive a stick this summer. He's 11. She plans on showing him how it's done on a log landing somewhere when we are camping this summer and then turning him loose in my TJ. I'm budgeting for a new clutch and a transmission rebuild. At 6' 4" tall, your oldest grand-son can just put the top down and go for it...unlimited headroom. Kids and Jeeps go together like baseball and apple pie. They even get the opportunity to help fix what they break! Good learning experience all around.
She doesn't know what she is missing!
My wife is always yelling at me to take it off--The top and doors- get your mind out of the gutter!
Of course she is the 65 year old kid that wanted to do Alaska on a motorcycle and now wants to go back--on a motorcycle!