Post up your Jeep Toad

[Wolverine 1945]

Originally Posted by CZNEDY

Not my Jeep, but I just walked by this one while out for a walk with the dogAttachment 177621

SWEET !!!

[Orangecrush]

Okay, so am I the only one that takes his Jeep but doesn't flat tow it? I have flat towed it before but prefer to pull it in an enclosed trailer. I even towed it in a trailer before I got the DX3.

[CZNEDY]

That is pretty sweet?

[omahagirl]

Here ours on it’s first hook up, test run, new to us run around the block today. All we have left is to fit the full front cover. And it needs a bath too

[CZNEDY]

Hey, I saw that Jeep in Gettysburg

[omahagirl]

Yes we were on the picnic side of the pavilion site 71. I drove it up since we hadn’t installed much on it by then.

[omahagirl]

Here’s the full front cover on but for the windshield which is now on ready to leave

[Orangecrush]

Originally Posted by omahagirl

Here’s the full front cover on but for the windshield which is now on ready to leave

As someone who has been in the bodyshop business for almost 40 years, I'd like to suggest removing that cover. The paint on your Jeep is basecoat/clearcoat and when it gets rubbed from the cover, it will make the clear coat milky.

You can have it wrapped in a clear bra or buy some static cling paper (we use a product that looks like saran wrap but it's sticky and can be easily removed. (not reused))

Just a suggestion to protect your jeep.

Mark

[CZNEDY]

Yah, get rid of that. Pull it without the protective stuff. It's a Jeep!

[AquaMan]

Mine sits too high to get any rock chips anyway. I don’t worry about it, it gets enough on the trails.

[Wolverine 1945]

Originally Posted by Orangecrush

As someone who has been in the bodyshop business for almost 40 years, I'd like to suggest removing that cover. The paint on your Jeep is basecoat/clearcoat and when it gets rubbed from the cover, it will make the clear coat milky.

You can have it wrapped in a clear bra or buy some static cling paper (we use a product that looks like saran wrap but it's sticky and can be easily removed. (not reused))

Just a suggestion to protect your jeep.

Mark

Sounds like shrink wrap ???

[Orangecrush]

Originally Posted by Wolverine 1945

Sounds like shrink wrap ???

Kind of but no shrinking... it's called crash wrap and we use it to protect an interior if a car comes in with windows broken out of it.

Regardless of what she uses to protect the paint, the black bra has to go. The darker the color, the more it'll show.


Mark

[omahagirl]

After two days with a correctly fitting cover. Not a cheap black bra it looks great

[Orangecrush]

Originally Posted by omahagirl

After two days with a correctly fitting cover. Not a cheap black bra it looks great

Yeah, it’ll take more than two days. I promise you it’ll leave marks in the clearcoat. I’ll bet the 38 years of my bodyshop experience that it’ll happen. Dirt will get underneath it and it’ll “grind” the dust and dirt into the paint like a fine polish and leave the clearcoat milky.

That’s the reason you don’t see those kind of bras nowadays and they use a clear bra from companies like 3M.

I wasn’t trying to rain on your parade, just offering professional advice.

Hope it works out for you.


Mark

[omahagirl]

Originally Posted by Orangecrush

Yeah, it’ll take more than two days. I promise you it’ll leave marks in the clearcoat. I’ll bet the 38 years of my bodyshop experience that it’ll happen. Dirt will get underneath it and it’ll “grind” the dust and dirt into the paint like a fine polish and leave the clearcoat milky.



That’s the reason you don’t see those kind of bras nowadays and they use a clear bra from companies like 3M.



I wasn’t trying to rain on your parade, just offering professional advice.



Hope it works out for you.





Mark

Thanks we’re not full timers but this is a 18 with barley 1 k miles on it and with that two tone grill, I talked with folks that have logged 3k with theirs on. We cleaned it up and waxed it before the cover went on and will continue that practice. We had a couple asking about it today. He loved how snuggly it fit

[Orangecrush]

Originally Posted by omahagirl

Thanks we’re not full timers but this is a 18 with barley 1 k miles on it and with that two tone grill, I talked with folks that have logged 3k with theirs on. We cleaned it up and waxed it before the cover went on and will continue that practice. We had a couple asking about it today. He loved how snuggly it fit

Keeping it waxed will definitely help. Good job!


Mark

[AquaMan]

Having being pulled so close to your motorhome will definitely help with the wind buffeting. I’ve pulled my ‘17 Recon several thousand miles without any protection and it’s still pristine, but I’m also about 6” higher. I took mine off roading when it only had 1500 miles and almost rolled it!

[CZNEDY]

[2manytoyz]

2006 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. Over 100K miles, still going strong.

[yupurs]

2001 GC