Bestop Sunrider Top Install for Jeep Wrangler JL and Jeep Gladiator JT

[@SoooJulie]

I love mine. My only (personal) Problem is I am short and have to stand in the floor boards to get the top up and down. It is much easier if you are over five foot three.

[@EightyTwoMedia]

Yea I can see that being a problem if you’re shorter.

[@fredbrandl880]

Thanks for the video. I just have two questions! Are they noisy on the road? And I see you kept your grab handles on I was told you can’t. But if you can all the better.

[@t0ufurious]

I have one. I absolutely love it, but it's unbearably loud under a crosswind. I just drove through an especially windy patch of highway today where I was hit with 50mph winds on my driver side for a solid 25 miles. My wife and I literally had to shout to each other to be heard. If there's no wind, it's not bad. It's a little louder than a hard top, but not uncomfortably so. I went with the upgraded fabric so I can't speak for how the cheaper option sounds. I also have velcro grab handles on mine and they work fine. There's enough room to slide them through after the sunrider has been installed, but they do need to be removed in order to put the sunrider on. If you have handles that use the bolt holes that the sunrider uses, then I'm not so sure.

[@fredbrandl880]

@@t0ufurious thank you for the response. Yeah I heard they can be loud but damn it so handy though. I have the black factory sound proofing under my freedom panels and they are really good for cancelling noise I’m actually impressed with them. So I guess that’s my option ease of a sunroof with a noisy ride or a quiet ride with a pain in the a&#. to store the panels.

[@EightyTwoMedia]

Yea it’s louder than having freedom panels on. Like the previous comment above when it’s windy or cross winds it’s loud. I do love this top and how convenient it is to throw the top back instead of taking panels off and storing them. I recommend this to everyone!

[@AuthorZoeySkye]

I love Bestop products!!

[@EightyTwoMedia]

The Sunrider is great!

[@JR-ut1yx]

I prefer the old school black diamond 😊 great video!

[@EightyTwoMedia]

I’ve had both. What I like about the twill is the underneath part is finished in black and look a little nicer.

[@JR-ut1yx]

@@EightyTwoMedia yeah probably worth the little extra 👍

[@bernigordon8141]

You’re missing about putting the side rails onto the top and then putting it on the jeep

[@EightyTwoMedia]

Yea after I installed them I said to myself o should probably film this🤦🏻‍♂️ so that parts not in the video.

[@bernigordon8141]

I cannot figure this out for the life of me. They got rid of the Z clips now they got these other things and I just wanna shoot myself. I wish I could see a video.

[@EightyTwoMedia]

@@bernigordon8141mine still has the z clips that goes in the little holes on each sides. Is yours a Ned one for the 2024’s? What do you have instead of the z clip?

[@bernigordon8141]

A binding barrel screw that attaches to a little circle thing whatever it’s called instead of a Z clip

[@EightyTwoMedia]

@@bernigordon8141sorry I wish I could be more helpful with this one. I’m not familiar with the new attachment they are using.

[@JazCas86]

Any update on leaking? Any issues?

[@EightyTwoMedia]

@@JazCas86 The top has been great no leaking. It’s noisy compared the having the hardtop freedom panels on, but the top is so convenient I don’t even mind.

[@JazCas86]

​@EightyTwoMedia Im going to put one on my 2022 Rubicon gladiator tomorrow, but I've seen mixed reviews about leaking. So I'm a little hesitant.

[@EightyTwoMedia]

@@JazCas86 I wonder when people are installing them if they are smashing the weather seals down in the corners near the windshield and seals close to the door edge where it meets the hardtop? You need to fit the brackets in them correctly if you don’t I could see how it could possibly leak.

[@JazCas86]

@EightyTwoMedia im going to have it installed by Karnage Motorsports | Jeep and 4x4 Shop here in Miami. I'm sure they know what they're doing. They have installed several i was told. Scared ill screw it up.

[@mikemendoza88]

will it fit a 2024 sahara?

[@EightyTwoMedia]

Looking at the Bestop website it fits the 2024’s

[@eriknielsen138]

I heard that leaks a lot tho

[@EightyTwoMedia]

I had two different ones and didn’t have any leaking issues with mine.