Reviews for MasterTop Replacement Soft Top with Tinted Windows in MasterTwill® Fabric for 07-18 Jeep Wrangler JK 2 Door
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First of all this top is WAY BETTER than the OEM top in look, feel, fabric, noise reduction, and fit. Get the thickest vinyl you can afford, the tint is awesome and keeps the inside much cooler in Florida. The underside is black and will make your interior feel darker, which is a plus for me. C I wish the rear vinyl would be as taught and flat as the sides or as in the advertised picture but seeing thru it is clear. The install instructions are not very good , follow the diagrams and just pay attention to how you take the old top off, reverse the process and you will be fine. Took 2 hours for my son and I and we are not Jeep experts. For the price this is a fantastic top you will not be disappointed.
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Maybe I am missing something - based on Thomas P's review. Everything fit great on my 2011 Wrangler, EXCEPT I cannot get the door inserts around the frame closest to both doors. So, it flaps and lets in quite a bit of air when driving. What am I missing?
I have finally installed this new top on my 2008 Jeep Wrangler X 2Dr, and while it looks far superior to the original OEM top, there are some concerns I have, still, with the design and installation of this new top that I thought I should share here.
The installation on my specific year includes a conversion kit to change the way the top is held down around the doors from OEM to a cable system. Part of that kit involves installing rubber extrusions into the door surrounds that, on my first attempt, was nigh-on impossible. There were some factors at play, not least of which was the ambient temperature around me (about 75F, direct sun) which had warmed up the rubber, and made it far more tactile and sticky - and less able to be installed easily. I had to wait till the morning after to put those pieces in, when the air was cooler, and the rubber was less pliable - which worked.
There is also, as part of this conversion kit, two straps that attach to the sound bar and to the springs at the end of the cables sewn into the sides of the front section of the top. Installing these straps was fine, and while the instructions indicate to clamp the spring ends closed around the D-ring end of the straps, I would recommend not doing this because when you attempt to lower the top, the straps need to be detached from the springs for the entire top to fold properly and be stowed. That leads to two dangling straps from the sound bar that will flap around in the wind if not properly secured. To do that, I've wrapped them around the roll bars and finagled a way to keep them tight.
The other real design flaw, at least in the top I got, was the discrepancy between the images in the installation pamphlet and the actual rear section of the top. The instructions indicate that you are to reinstall the four screws to the rear bow via the four flaps of cloth that are sewn into that section of the top for that purpose. The only problem is, there are not four flaps of cloth. There is only one larger flap of cloth, and I took the liberty of just piercing that bit of cloth with the screws to the rear bow. I don't know if that's what was intended, but without doing so, the top was very, very flappy when either door window was lowered, and when the top was down totally, it didn't fold correctly.
So, yeah, there are some design flaws in this top, specifically for my make/model of Jeep. I don't know about the later JK models, and how the top would fit on them.
That said, the fabric is FANTASTIC and a MASSIVE upgrade from the OEM top. The sound inside the cabin of the Jeep, especially at highway speeds, is markedly better, and the cable system around the doors has done a good job keeping out the rain (esp up here in Oregon) so far. It's awesome to be able to engage the Sunrider part of the top easily without having to fish out the sides of the top from the lip of the door surrounds - eg: you can flip half the top back on the go. The tinting of the windows is great too, and the quality of the window vinyl is far superior to what had been there before.
I would recommend this top, but I would also caution that there are some design challenges with it, and installation needs to come with a bit more intuition than the guide leads you to believe.
The only reason I have given this top one star is because the twill does make it quieter driving down the road. HOWEVER, it is poorly made. The fit is so much worse than the OEM. There's wrinkles in the windows which you would think meant there was plenty of room- NOPE. I can't get the windows on by myself. At this point, I'm just scared to take the top off cause it's so hard to put back on. Much harder than the OEM.
Absolute worse! I have now had 3 of these. (Quadratec has been good in dealing with this issue) The first one when ordered was super loose; it sounded like it was just a towel flapping in the wind. Now I understand that I drive a Jeep with a soft-top, but I should be able to hear my passenger with the windows closed and no radio. I called and Quadratec offered a replacement. This one was better, but it still didn't fit. This time it seemed that it was too small. I have been told so many times to just wait and let it heat up and stretch...well I am not sure that is a very appropriate response. It should fit when I purchase it and put it on. Sadly, even waiting for it to warm up didn't help. Now, I have my third replacement and this is the absolute worst. It is loose, yet small, and I was driving down the road now twice, and the passenger window comes out of the channel (which it never fit in the channel either). Now, I am waiting on what's next from Quadratec. If you are considering this top, I would think twice about it if you drive a 2013 2-door. Not saying it is not good, but for my model Jeep, it isn't good.