How do you store all your soft top parts in car?

That escalated quickly.

The rampage frameless top has a neat storage compartment in the roof for holding the side and back windows. Unfortunately, that's the only good thing about it.

For factory soft top and hard door uppers: I have an old set of twin sheets. The uppers go in the fitted sheet (put one in, fold over, put other in with the frames together as was said earlier, fold over again). That way the windows are protected from each other and anything else. I slide them between the back seat and my storage box (in an LJ). The side windows get the same treatment in the top sheet, then rolled and sat on top of the box.

Everything else (like jeep jacket) goes in the storage box on the trailer that the jeep is usually riding on.
 
I don’t get why this is such an offensive question and am fairly shocked by the mildly abusive response. I’m not trying to over think anything, I’m just looking for a simple plan? Anyway...

What I this is what I have so far:
1. Unzip the back window but leave the bottom bar in place (it’s too long to fit anywhere else easily) and let the window flop down into the trunk.
2. Drop in one of the door windows (pegs pointing up and back)
3. Slide in both soft side windows, then sandwich with the other door window (pegs up and forward)
4. Then drop the top onto this, covering all the parts inside the trunk

I should explain my door widows are the sliding glass panel type, they have some weight and are good at keeping the soft windows in place.
Now this is a pretty good start, I can still use the back seat and no one is tempted to go parts shopping, but it may wear on the back window and the top a bit since those door window pegs are up.

Any better ideas are welcome.
 
LittleJohn said:
Any better ideas are welcome.
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My first "car" was a 74 CJ5 with a soft top, 304V8, and 3 speed on 31's (back in 86, 31's were the equivalent of running 35's today)

ANYWAY

It was my sole vehicle. Defrost didn't work, and of course it didn't have AC, so rainy days between march and November sucked monkey nuts. EVERY window fogged up, and had to stop every 10 miles to wipe them down from the inside.
I had it 4 years before I was forced to sell it (too many burnouts during Clarence Moody's tenor as a NC state trooper in K-vegas) but in that time I learned:

  • Jeep CJ/Wrangler as a sole vehicle doesn't cut it
  • You either remove the sides, back and doors and leave them at home, or keep them all on and tolerate looking like the Beverly hillbilly's stuffing all the various parts
  • NOTHING is ever "secure" in a Jeep
  • Don't own a CJ/wrangler without a garage

20 years later I was finally able to get another CJ...and I kept the top OFF all the time, and it stayed in the garage. Only drove it when it was sunny, or I was willing to get wet

30 years later I have a TJ. It came with a hardtop. Stayed on from Nov-April, then stayed off and garaged. Same as my 2nd CJ. Except it stays garaged with the WHOLE top on because once a month I'm off on a 4 day adventure in some other state with the Carolina TrailBlazers, so I keep the top on for travel. But once we're where we ride, the top generally comes off and stays off all weekend. I NEVER "stuff the back window" or door uppers or sides to go on a trail. I either roll complete (when it's cold/raining) or I roll naked. There IS no "take it with me"

That's the point EVERYONE is trying to make, that you're not getting. YES you asked for SPECIFIC advice...but we're trying to TELL you: "It's just not that simple"
 
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I beg to differ - you can take it with you... ;-)
 
Another point to remember - if you roll up the rear window (or any part), clean it very well first. Otherwise the grit gets grounds into it over time, from bouncing around compressed into a tight space, and you end up with cloudy/scratched windows.
 
This is not my only vehicle and I do not have a garage.

I get that my question is not that simple... but that doesn’t make it undoable, or un-discussable. The method I described above works, no parts are visible or even in the open. What’s wrong with that?

Could parts walk off? Sure, but having the top all the way up wouldn’t really prevent that either.
 
LittleJohn said:
This is not my only vehicle and I do not have a garage.

I get that my question is not that simple... but that doesn’t make it undoable, or un-discussable. The method I described above works, no parts are visible or even in the open. What’s wrong with that?

Could parts walk off? Sure, but having the top all the way up wouldn’t really prevent that either.
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If the method you described works for you, then run with it and quit wasting everyone’s time.
 
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