daspes wrote:
I'd agree with the tube door idea over the posted version. Personally I'd make a full tube door and skin it with vinyl like Wrangler softdoors. That way for DD you have your OEM doors, and when wheeling you have the tubes with as much or little element protection as you need at the moment.
I still think it will very difficult to make a tube door that fits well enough to cover up everything. Bending the tube in the exact lines of the door jam can't be easy. I do think if it was done and matched the lines perfectly, it would be amazing and my first choice, but I'm not going to spend the time and money to find out it isn't going to turn out the way I want. Not to mention the cost of getting a professional to canvas it for me so it didn't look like trash if I did it.
oddball wrote:
I don't like them.
1. The Doors look lame in those photo's anyway. I mean what's up with cutting the handles off but leaving the useless button knob without a handle?
2.But even if I had liked them, I sure wouldn't only do one door.
3. I fail to see how those doors will help nav against large rocks? What, you'd prefer your elbow / shoulder to take the brunt of rocks?!- The only functional purpose I could imagine would be the lack of forced pressure while you're submerged underwater. Maybe if you were doing African safari's I'd consider something like that - Maybe.
(Btw; AC is for soccer mom's & sissy's).
I wouldn't be keeping the single door on all the time. It would be swapped in for trail runs.
As far as navigation for rocks, all that door body that is cut out makes a huge difference in tire placement. It makes it so much easier to see and maneuver accordingly. I would smash my elbow now, just as I would with these doors, except now I have to hang farther out to see better. Where with these or tube doors I could lean more easily out the window.
The door handles being cut made it possible to get more door body cut out and more space which is the goal in the first place and the push button still works the same way it did before. Our KJ would have to be done differently because our handles don't have that button though.
jdorris wrote:
I like the idea of it being easier to lean out and see rocks, but my concern would be the dd aspect. Seems like removing and installing the doors would be hard on hardware. It sucks to deal with sagging, misaligned doors, Hell, we have enough problems with the doors sealing already. Maybe save the idea for when it isn't the dd??? My $.02. I do like the concept though.
That is my biggest concern right now, the pain it will be to remove and replace the doors. Eventually it would cause excess wear and tear which would suck.
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