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Terrible idea! You might accidently get some extra vitamin D.
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imo, if you have another set of hands to steady it into place, you don't need a professional installer. It's not even heavy, one person could easily lift/position it. I had my kid get inside and help hold it up while I guided it into place. On road trips, I swap it back to hard panels. It takes 15 mins, after you've done the initial install. Maybe the only tricky part would be not over tightening the bracket into the hardtop. Honestly, I'd rather do that myself rather than finding it stripped by an installer months later. I don't even know if that's a concern or has happened, I'm just extra paranoid about taking care of the hardtop.
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I’ve been thinking about purchasing this as well. I am interested as to why do you change back to a hard top for road trips? Noise or security reasons?
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I have the skyrider for bronco…….love it! Had the sunrider on previous wrangler ….loved it too. If you can swing the extra $$$$$….the. Get the skyrider. Won’t regret it!
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for 90% of my driving, the noise is acceptable, but if I'm going to go a long road trip (like 6+ hours) with the wife and kid where I might be going 75-80mph, it's worth the 15 mins to swap back so we can talk and listen to music at reasonable volume. And I'm not going some place scenic. If I'm going to leave it at the airport for a few days, I'd probably swap back to hard panels for security.
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If your passengers will also want full sun (or you also get a mesh sun screen) that is. Not in my case, my wife and kid will usually alternate the passenger to back seats, while my idiot self gets too much sun. Also, the sunrider can be opened and closed from the drivers seat, without exiting - this is huge for me and why I ultimately went with the sunrider over the skyrider.
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My sunrider does not leak and the noise after some adjustment (you will find countless threads about this) isn't bad, remember it is just a convertible top and my Miata wasn't the quietest thing on the highway. But the convenience of just opening the top whenever makes it worth it.
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Noise is slightly worse than the factory hardtop. Just turn up the radio louder (but replace the factory speakers first - lol).
Installing is not hard. First time, I had the neighbours kid help me get it setup on top. Did not bother getting help to take it off last year and putting it back on this year. Easy one person job as long as you have the strength to lift it up to the roof. I put it on around end of April and then take it off late October or early November before the snow flies.
No leaks and for me it is a great option instead of taking off the hard top especially since I don't have a great place to store it. I probably would have gotten the Skyrider if it was available last year. As another person noted, if you can swing it, I would recommend instead of the Sunrider.
But either or I think are great options and well engineered.
Installing is not hard. First time, I had the neighbours kid help me get it setup on top. Did not bother getting help to take it off last year and putting it back on this year. Easy one person job as long as you have the strength to lift it up to the roof. I put it on around end of April and then take it off late October or early November before the snow flies.
No leaks and for me it is a great option instead of taking off the hard top especially since I don't have a great place to store it. I probably would have gotten the Skyrider if it was available last year. As another person noted, if you can swing it, I would recommend instead of the Sunrider.
But either or I think are great options and well engineered.
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I like the Skyrider but it's not compatible with my JTops bimini top which is important here in NC since you will melt in the sun in summer. It works fine with my Sunrider.
Hello, I have a question, I picked up my Bronco w hardtop in March 23 and one of the first things that I wanted to purchase was a besttop for the warmer months ( I’m in NJ). Fast forward, I wasn’t sure which way to go so, I haven’t make this purchase, yet. Do you have to remove any of the besttop hardware in order to reinstall the drive and passenger hardtop pieces? I’m pretty sure that if you get the skyrider model that the besttop hardware has to be removed in order to reinstall the 3 hardtop ( driver, passenger and back row) roof panels. Please let me know your thoughts and thank you.
Update, I got my answer that yes the BestTop hardware has to be removed to reinstall the hardtop panels.
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It only ships in a bunch of parts/hardware to reduce damage in shipping. Once put together, you only have to keep track of a couple bolts and the bits you used, the Sunrider removes for storage in one piece. I keep the longer bolts needed in the toolkit in the glove box so they wont get lost.
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