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    Posted: 05 July 2018 at 6:48pm
Sneaking down to Moab this weekend for some fun.
The weather girl says it’s going to be triple digit temperatures the whole time.

In your experience jeeping in blazing hot temps, have you found it to be more comfortable with the windshield down and nothing between you and Apollo except maybe a boonie hat?

Or have you found it to be more comfortable writh the glass up and propped open and a bikini top between you and the inferno in the sky?

I think I’m going to run an experiment this weekend and do one day with the glass down. This is my favorite way to run. Gets all that windshield out of your view so you can get the full panoramic effect of God’s beautiful creations spreading out before you.

The 2nd day I’ll run with the glass up and the bikini top on. I prefer not running this way because my view is blocked. Like sitting behind the pillar at the ballgame. I’m also a little bit concerned about running with the glass propped up and only being stabilized by the hinge thumb screw. I’ve never run like that and have no confidence in how it will hold up if I encounter a slightly uneven patch in the road. Smile

Any prediction on what I’ll like best, or experience that you have had?

Edited to take out weird typos and spelling errors (probably not all of them).


Edited by smfulle - 05 July 2018 at 8:00pm
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I have no wheeling experience, but it sounds hot either way. Maybe a tractor umbrella to block the sun, but still catch a breeze without blocking the view. Have fun!!
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I'm for the panoramic view god gave us (thank you!).... Enjoy your adventure!...

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Windshield down and big sombrero!  Tongue


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Windshield folded down/no bikini top equals ambient air temp during slow going, a few degrees cooler when moving.

Windshield up, flipped out with bikini top (on the Jeep) equals shade and a few degrees cooler.

Since you asked for opinions mine is that....shade, windshield flipped full open ( it also helps keep dust off your shoulders a tad)

Triple digit 'feels like' temps here for 2 weeks now......but it's a 'moist hot'.   



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Originally posted by Lee (MN) Lee (MN) wrote:

I'm for the panoramic view god gave us (thank you!).... Enjoy your adventure!...

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Me too but today in Ft Worth it is about 96 and I just put the bikini top on and opened the windshield vent. Much cooler: I'm with Lee though - love the open view.
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Love the open view as well but the skin cancer gods have never been kind to me.. gotta have shade..
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If you ask me.... (and you have)  I think you're NUTS either way.  It's kind of like asking if it will be better to pound your head against the brick wall or drywall.
 
Call me a lightweight, but all my jeep'n takes place between 75 and 85 degrees.  (sure I live in So Cal. where it's between those temps most of the time anyway).
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Originally posted by cal.bar cal.bar wrote:

If you ask me.... (and you have)  I think you're NUTS either way.  It's kind of like asking if it will be better to pound your head against the brick wall or drywall.
 

You may be right.
We do plan on trying to get our off roading in as early in the day as possible so that only part of our outdoor experience is in the so-hot-your-brain-boils range.

You have to remember that here in Utah “it’s a dry heat”. Makes it so you hardly notice it.Wink

I think I’d choose drywall over brick, if I had to choose. Smile
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yes but you don't have to choose. By the way the heat in my oven is a dry heat as well but I don't stick my head in there too often
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My experience in hot weather Jeepin' is that shade is awesome! Especially out there in Moab where the sun feels really intense to us Midwesterners. If you need an "A-pillar" hoop to facilitate running the bikini top with the windshield down I can hook you up

Enjoy your second of at least three Moab adventures this year!!!
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I was in a parade yesterday with a bikini top and the windshield open. It was in the 90's but bearable.I did linger in the shade of a few trees along the route. Had to race the engine to keep it from overheating.

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I was just in Moab last week. It was hot but much colder than at home. Ran the TJ with just the bikini top.
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I happen  to be down  in Los Angeles to see my new grandson and it is supposed to be 115 tomorrow...that is hot , hot , hot for a Canucklehead like me. Living in Rancho Cucamonga temps approached that regularily. I designed a bikini top before Trader managed to equip many members rigs.Unfortunately, it required a windshield --- so unobstructed panoramic viewing is impossible...
Seemed to be a great solution to the furnace we drove in .... tomorrow i drive past Moab on the 15 north to the colder 80's


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Stan, lay that windshield down and jeep as normal.  That’s the way I did it Wednesday on the 4th of July.  Here’s what the truck temp said it was (and no, this wasn’t sitting in the sun static, this was driving out of the area after we called it a day). 



I was having so much fun, I didn’t even notice that it was warm.  Ours is a “dry heat” as well.  Well, that’s not quite true, I noticed it was warm after my knees and legs were getting the color of cooked lobster.😲. But we had a blast!  And Brian, I brought along some portable shade.  Here in my part of Texas, trees are few and far between😉







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Stan, I'd vote for going both ways.  If you're travelling at speed, drop the top and enjoy the view, and let the breeze keep you cool under your boonie.  If you're crawling slow, then go top up to provide the shade that will save you from baking in your iron fry pan.  That's what I like to do here in the high country.  But which ever way you go, and your experiment is a fun way to add to your adventure, be sure to take photos to share with the rest of us.  
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Have you tried the trails in the very nearby La Sals? Was in Moab years ago when it was 104 in town. Drove South a few miles and took the loop road to a high lake side campground. It was 64 there and there was a jeep trail going down to Paradox.
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