Wind Noise From Softtop On The Highways.
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Wind Noise From Softtop On The Highways.
Wind noise on the highway.
Everyone knows how loud the Jeep can be on the highways right? But wow was I surprised on how loud it can really get. My last Jeep had both tops, hard and soft, but I only used the soft top through spring –n- fall and only if we were expecting foul weather. Otherwise I had the hard top on. This is my 1st experience with the soft top only option.
I drove my JK to drill over this past weekend, approximately 450 miles. It was a very windy weekend in Kansas as well. Good thing I added new speakers and subwoofers to it before I left, because I doubt I would have been able to listen to the radio at all if it wasn’t for that.
During the ride there and back I kept looking to see how I could get a quieter ride, brain storming for several hours, and I thought of a solution. Now the only thing left to do was to get home and try it.
So I did… and it worked… It cut the noise in half, it doesn’t look bad and it cost me about $5, but I’m going to say I did have the piece of wood already… No… Don’t run away yet just because I said a piece of wood. I will say the wood I used was a piece of siding I had from building my shed. I will also add that I’m going to do it again with a thinner piece of flat particle board. I also purchased some light grey material from Hobby Lobby for $5. (I did had some 3M spay glue in my garage already)
I know this sounds like an infomercial, but it really was easy. I can think of other ways of doing the same thing like making the one piece into two pieces like T-tops came.
I cut the wood piece approximately 52.5” long and I believe it was 36”wide… Do your own measurements, and I rounded off the front corner sections, I then glued the material to the wood. After it dried I opened the Sun rider part of my Jeep top and place the piece in there, closed the top back up. The back side rests on the sound bar and the front slide into the gap between the top and the header bar that goes across with the locking latches. After I finished I drove it to my ball game that evening. I rolled up the window and hit highway speeds once again. I might also ad that it was even windier that night. I couldn’t believe how much it helped. I can imagine it would help during the winter times as well with keeping it warmer.
A simple and approximately $25 fix. I’m really surprised that someone hasn’t ran away with something like this earlier… or maybe someone has and I just haven’t seen it.
Here’s the picture’s… Tell me what you think.
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Everyone knows how loud the Jeep can be on the highways right? But wow was I surprised on how loud it can really get. My last Jeep had both tops, hard and soft, but I only used the soft top through spring –n- fall and only if we were expecting foul weather. Otherwise I had the hard top on. This is my 1st experience with the soft top only option.
I drove my JK to drill over this past weekend, approximately 450 miles. It was a very windy weekend in Kansas as well. Good thing I added new speakers and subwoofers to it before I left, because I doubt I would have been able to listen to the radio at all if it wasn’t for that.
During the ride there and back I kept looking to see how I could get a quieter ride, brain storming for several hours, and I thought of a solution. Now the only thing left to do was to get home and try it.
So I did… and it worked… It cut the noise in half, it doesn’t look bad and it cost me about $5, but I’m going to say I did have the piece of wood already… No… Don’t run away yet just because I said a piece of wood. I will say the wood I used was a piece of siding I had from building my shed. I will also add that I’m going to do it again with a thinner piece of flat particle board. I also purchased some light grey material from Hobby Lobby for $5. (I did had some 3M spay glue in my garage already)
I know this sounds like an infomercial, but it really was easy. I can think of other ways of doing the same thing like making the one piece into two pieces like T-tops came.
I cut the wood piece approximately 52.5” long and I believe it was 36”wide… Do your own measurements, and I rounded off the front corner sections, I then glued the material to the wood. After it dried I opened the Sun rider part of my Jeep top and place the piece in there, closed the top back up. The back side rests on the sound bar and the front slide into the gap between the top and the header bar that goes across with the locking latches. After I finished I drove it to my ball game that evening. I rolled up the window and hit highway speeds once again. I might also ad that it was even windier that night. I couldn’t believe how much it helped. I can imagine it would help during the winter times as well with keeping it warmer.
A simple and approximately $25 fix. I’m really surprised that someone hasn’t ran away with something like this earlier… or maybe someone has and I just haven’t seen it.
Here’s the picture’s… Tell me what you think.
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I will try this is if hear the flapping noise, but when you have the windows down won't that option be void?
I just can't picture that working if the windows are down.
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05-23-2014, 03:42 AM
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I think this is a cool idea. I was thinking about adding the military foam sleeping mats between the top and my SWS to see if it helped. Additionally if I was somewhere and wanted to drop the top I could roll them up and put them in the back.
05-23-2014, 04:38 AM
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Wind noise on the highway.
Everyone knows how loud the Jeep can be on the highways right? But wow was I surprised on how loud it can really get. My last Jeep had both tops, hard and soft, but I only used the soft top through spring –n- fall and only if we were expecting foul weather. Otherwise I had the hard top on. This is my 1st experience with the soft top only option.
I drove my JK to drill over this past weekend, approximately 450 miles. It was a very windy weekend in Kansas as well. Good thing I added new speakers and subwoofers to it before I left, because I doubt I would have been able to listen to the radio at all if it wasn’t for that.
During the ride there and back I kept looking to see how I could get a quieter ride, brain storming for several hours, and I thought of a solution. Now the only thing left to do was to get home and try it.
So I did… and it worked… It cut the noise in half, it doesn’t look bad and it cost me about $5, but I’m going to say I did have the piece of wood already… No… Don’t run away yet just because I said a piece of wood. I will say the wood I used was a piece of siding I had from building my shed. I will also add that I’m going to do it again with a thinner piece of flat particle board. I also purchased some light grey material from Hobby Lobby for $5. (I did had some 3M spay glue in my garage already)
I know this sounds like an infomercial, but it really was easy. I can think of other ways of doing the same thing like making the one piece into two pieces like T-tops came.
I cut the wood piece approximately 52.5” long and I believe it was 36”wide… Do your own measurements, and I rounded off the front corner sections, I then glued the material to the wood. After it dried I opened the Sun rider part of my Jeep top and place the piece in there, closed the top back up. The back side rests on the sound bar and the front slide into the gap between the top and the header bar that goes across with the locking latches. After I finished I drove it to my ball game that evening. I rolled up the window and hit highway speeds once again. I might also ad that it was even windier that night. I couldn’t believe how much it helped. I can imagine it would help during the winter times as well with keeping it warmer.
A simple and approximately $25 fix. I’m really surprised that someone hasn’t ran away with something like this earlier… or maybe someone has and I just haven’t seen it.
Here’s the picture’s… Tell me what you think.
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Everyone knows how loud the Jeep can be on the highways right? But wow was I surprised on how loud it can really get. My last Jeep had both tops, hard and soft, but I only used the soft top through spring –n- fall and only if we were expecting foul weather. Otherwise I had the hard top on. This is my 1st experience with the soft top only option.
I drove my JK to drill over this past weekend, approximately 450 miles. It was a very windy weekend in Kansas as well. Good thing I added new speakers and subwoofers to it before I left, because I doubt I would have been able to listen to the radio at all if it wasn’t for that.
During the ride there and back I kept looking to see how I could get a quieter ride, brain storming for several hours, and I thought of a solution. Now the only thing left to do was to get home and try it.
So I did… and it worked… It cut the noise in half, it doesn’t look bad and it cost me about $5, but I’m going to say I did have the piece of wood already… No… Don’t run away yet just because I said a piece of wood. I will say the wood I used was a piece of siding I had from building my shed. I will also add that I’m going to do it again with a thinner piece of flat particle board. I also purchased some light grey material from Hobby Lobby for $5. (I did had some 3M spay glue in my garage already)
I know this sounds like an infomercial, but it really was easy. I can think of other ways of doing the same thing like making the one piece into two pieces like T-tops came.
I cut the wood piece approximately 52.5” long and I believe it was 36”wide… Do your own measurements, and I rounded off the front corner sections, I then glued the material to the wood. After it dried I opened the Sun rider part of my Jeep top and place the piece in there, closed the top back up. The back side rests on the sound bar and the front slide into the gap between the top and the header bar that goes across with the locking latches. After I finished I drove it to my ball game that evening. I rolled up the window and hit highway speeds once again. I might also ad that it was even windier that night. I couldn’t believe how much it helped. I can imagine it would help during the winter times as well with keeping it warmer.
A simple and approximately $25 fix. I’m really surprised that someone hasn’t ran away with something like this earlier… or maybe someone has and I just haven’t seen it.
Here’s the picture’s… Tell me what you think.
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might was well have a hard top on.......