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One of the simple pleasures I get out of life is driving my Jeep without the doors!   But with the stock mirrors, when the doors go, so do the mirrors.   The decision to replace my mirrors was made easier but the fact that I (I mean a tree :) ) completely destroyed the passenger mirror on a trail ride.  I tried those mirror relocation brackets that mount to the windshield hinges, but they didn't work very well.   You can't see the passenger side mirror at all with the door uppers installed!   I decided on a set of CJ-style mirrors; the driver mirror sticks out to the left side and the passenger mirror kind of sticks up.  They look a little funky, but they work well.  These mirrors mount into existing holes on the side of the windshield hinges.  But that put them a little high for my taste, so I drilled and tapped two new holes in the front of the windshield hinge (which allowed me to position them lower).  This also allows the mirrors to be folded completely out of the way of mirror-eating trees on the trail!  The driver's side mirror is visible through the door upper.  To see the passenger side mirror, however, you look through the bottom right corner of the windshield.  They vibrate a bit more than the stock mirrors, so the image is a bit fuzzy.  But hey, that's a Jeep Thing . . . you understand!

 

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Although I love to drive my Jeep without the doors, if the weather is bad during part of my trip, I like having doors!  But then later, when I want to remove them, there's no place to store those big fat factory steel half doors.  The solution is soft doors, which Bestop took forever to develop for the TJ!  The two soft doors and their matching uppers are very reasonably priced.  All four pieces, when sandwiched together, are still thinner than only one of the factory doors, and store easily behind the rear seat!

Each door and upper is adjustable so that you can get an excellent fit.  And the map pockets inside of each door holds twice what the little molded plastic pockets hold on the factory doors.  Each upper has a velcro'ed flap along the bottom, which overlaps the top of the lower door.  It is very effective at keeping out the wind and rain.   The doors take seconds to install and remove, and they look really cool!  If I had any complaints, it would have to be that the doors "flap" considerably at highway speeds (i.e., they're noisy!).  But, hey . . . that's just another one of those Jeep Things . . . You Understand!

       

    For more information about Bestop's Superdoors and other related products, visit their web site at www.bestop.com

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