Reviews for Bestop Supertop NX Twill Soft Top for 07-18 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited JK 4 Door
Good quality material. Took about 3 hours to install. Typicall selftaper screws. Broke while installing using a screw gun.
I bought this product in June of 2019. I am having trouble trying to get the side windows correctly. the zipper on the roof and the zipper on the window don't align to allow the me to seat the front part of the window where it goes into the slot on the door. if i put the front part into the slot provided prior to zipping the window in, the top part of the zipper on the roof and the zipper on the window are 3/4" -1" apart. Therefore the top front corners are fapping in the wind on both sides.
Is it a defect or did I do something wrong in my install?
One would think if you spend this much on a top, you would get a high-quality product - and it has nothing to do with the thickness of the fabric top. I bought this to replace a factory soft-top which after 7 years got tired. I switch between my hard top and the soft top during the year when it gets cold, so we shall see if this new one holds up. This is for a 4-door 2015 JK.
Step1 should be - go directly to hardware store and get screws that won't strip out when you are trying to screw a fabric top to metal bars (yes, 9 screws hold this top to the metal frame). Also, one would think that the threaded insert on the door rail shouldn't come out when you put in the screws but this one did. It was a good thing I was able to salvage the insert from my old door rail and re-drilled the new to fit it in there. There really is no need for a white BESTOP logo on the back of it either - and finally, you would think that someone would have figured out that rear windows will not stay tucked in the rear doors by just a bent piece of plastic and friction. The factory top did this and I was hoping that this one would be different - I guess I'll use the tried and true Velcro to hold those in place so they don't blow out.
Comparing the factory soft top and this one - If I had a choice, I would have just bought another factory one. It seemed like the frame was better quality and you didn't screw the fabric to metal bars to hold it in place. Chalk it up to an expensive lesson learned.