Reviews for Bestop 51798-17 2-Piece Front Doors in Twill for 07-18 Jeep Wrangler JK
Matches my soft top
They'll look great in place of my hard Doors
The best!
2018 JK Rubicon Recon, I purchased these twill doors to match my recently purchased twill top from Bestop and absolutely love them, I would like to have tint as an option on the uppers, but not a deal breaker. These are very adjustable and fit very nicely. Great product!
Are covered
Price and easy to install
Yes, these doors require some work do get fitted correctly. Yes, they do let some rain in. Yes, the uppers pull away from the jeep at highway speeds and kinda flap around unless you unzip the window to let air in. HOWEVER, these do keep a majority of the rain out, can be easily carried with you while your out as they fit behind the back seat, and mine have held up well after 6+ years. I put mine on every year as soon as the weather starts to get nice. They are very easy to take off and put on, so I store my regular full doors in my shed from March to October.
was a easy install once you got the doors latched on and adjusted, only thing wish the doors fit a bit better but I am assuming once they get broken in they will fit better, but over all do really like these doors did buy them for summer only after all
I bought these with the matching rear set for my JKU. The rear doors and uppers installed fairly easily, with minimal issue. Both lower front doors also installed without too much trouble, although they were a little tight. But that's where the good stops.
These front uppers were very poor-fitting and despite following the installation instructions exactly, I could not get a proper fit with them. It is recommended to start with the front pin, but when I did that, the rear pins would not properly fit in their sockets. Adjusting the collars made no difference because the alignment of the sockets and the pins were so far off. If the front pin was seated properly, a good angle for fitment could not be achieved on the middle and rear pins, no matter the degree of adjustment made. This was the same case for both the front driver and passenger doors.
It took me hours to get the pins even close to engaging with the sockets and they're still not fitting properly. Since I already took my doors off, I have to use these with releasable zip ties to keep the uppers in place. And even with the zip ties, there's still not full contact with the velcro flaps. Even worse, almost all of the powder coat is damaged on the retaining pegs as a result of the fitment issue. I can only assume that there's some sort of manufacturing defect with this front pair, since neither of the front uppers will correctly engage with the lower door sockets. Considering that one of the rotary latch paddle handles arrived bent from the factory, that definitely seems possible. My Jeep has never been in an accident, so that should not be a factor. I've also successfully rebuilt my Jeep's valvetrain and worked on the transmission's valve body, so I don't think it's a problem with my ability to follow the directions.
I had similar doors on my older TJ, so I pretty much knew what I'd get for my JK. While Bestop makes some good stuff, this is still an aftermarket fabric door on a metal frame. It's going to be loud on the highway. It's going to let in some rain. My rating is based on none of that, because that should be expected. If you want a quiet, perfectly fitting door, keep the full steel doors on or buy a Camry. That said, I had a LOT more trouble fitting the top half to to bottom half than I should have. The pins on the uppers just do not fit into the lowers with significant work. None of the three sockets on my left side door were on straight. The right side were all straight, but were as much as a quarter inch out of alignment. Once I got them on, everything was so tight that it is difficult to separate the uppers and lowers. You should be able to just pull the tops off, and not have to force them I don't know if Bestop had some quality issues recently or what. I'm keeping them because I only got them to throw on if I'm out with the doors off and it rains. I'm not mad Bestop, I'm disappointed, and I hope you read that in your grandmother's voice.