soft top for the winter

[xbanone]

Anyone here in colder climates use thier softop all year long? I dont have a softop yet but the weather strip on my RUSTY hard top is shot and i'm freezing, how well does the soft top seal around the doors? am i better off replacing the weather strip or ditching the junk hardtop and going soft?? iny thoughts??

Brady

 

[Unregistered]

I am going to run mine, I am installing my heatercraft heater next week end.

 

[Jeepster]

replace the weather stripping....its cheeper and you can scrape the ice off the hardtop windows better. Save the soft top for summer. Winter wears the soft top a little faster.

 

[Hnrys69]

My STC soft top is much warmer than my hard top ever was. Soft top for life!!! Snowing again today btw )

 

[67ster]

I ran my 'ol 66 winter and summer with a softop and it was comfortable . Took it hunting late one fall in the snow and it wasn't too bad either after I stuffed enough cardboard in front of the radiator to get the heater warm .

 

[Steve]

I run mine year-round with a soft top in Colorado. (And I even have a good hard top sitting in the shed.)

 

[david heater]

I run my fast trac year round, here in Colorado with no problems, all though you do not want to take an ice scraper to the soft top windows at all!

 

[Waverous]

I run a BesTop year round - no problems!

 

[4x4man514]

my STC soft top seals up better than my hard top ever thought of.I might as well sell my hard top ,got no use for it.

 

[72bronco]

I run mine year round. But hey, I live in Southern California so that doesn't count. Snow? What snow? Only on T.V.

 

[Slumlord]

Good to know!! Since this is my first winter in Colorado, I no longer have pressure to purchase a hardtop, although I suppose that would be ideal in keeping my soft top looking as new as long as possible...

david heater - What do you suggest using on the windows to get the snow off? The brush rather than the scraper?

 

[Jeepster]

What do you suggest using on the windows to get the snow off? The brush rather than the scraper?

just tap on the sides with your hand. no matter what you do (brush....)you risk scratching the plastic.

 

[david heater]

david heater - What do you suggest using on the windows to get the snow off? The brush rather than the scraper? [/B][/QUOTE]

Brush does work, do not press against the windows. but you do stand the chance of messing up your " glass" hand a glove are the best way I have found. Excluding the blizzzard last year.

 

[4x4Alaska]

I ran a soft top for "one" winter a few years ago up here.....I'll never do it again!...I froze my a$$ off all winter!...as for tapping the top to get the snow off, when the weather is in the negative degrees (10 below this morning at my house) don't tap the window itself, tap the top material! My back window cracked from top to bottom...

 

[Alex]

I think when he said "Northern Climates" he did not mean Alaska! What kinda freak uses a soft top in Alaska! What do they even breath up there in the winter? I would probly get eaten by a bear.;D

I use mine here in the arctice that is Indiana! Snow really does not stick to the side windows for long. But I warm it up alot, and BTW it sits in the garage overnight!

 

[evil69]

I lived in Breckenridge and had a soft top on my old 69 and did fine. I'm lazy so I installed a block heater so I was good to go. The top is fine once you get to operating temp. I also lived in Ohio (which I think feels even colder) and same deal. You can live without and come summer, you don't need four buddies to take the damn top off.

(by the way I drove my old truck and "new" 69 to Colorado and back to Ohio a couple times and then to Georgia and even at speed they are livable)