Archive for the ‘Jeep Products’ Category

We were really busy leading up to my husband’s birthday and he ended up with a store bought cake despite my plans to attempt and make him one. I hate to admit this but I have never baked a birthday cake. My daughter was recently diagnosed with food allergies to eggs and milk so for her birthday I will have to put on an apron and make one. I thought making a Jeep cake could be fun to try so I Googled “Jeep Cake Pan” and sure enough you can buy them on Ebay. I’ve got 5 months to practice and try to make something edible; I feel sorry for my poor family having to be the tasting guinea pigs.

I have been reading some reviews on the SpiderWeb Shade Top and was really surprised to see as many negatives as I have. Everyone I have spoken to loves them and can’t make it through summer without them. I’ve even been known to let strangers with a Wrangler sit in my Jeep to have a look at it.

The majority of the negative reviews I read have all been about the bungee cords not having enough stretch or them breaking. I personally do not see this as a negative for such a great product. We lost one of our cords but after a quick trip to Walmart and less than $5 later we had a large pack of them. We in fact have so many of them that we keep finding them in in the oddest places in the Jeep.

The ones we bought from Walmart come in a few different colors, we chose bright red to match our Jeep. They have a lot more stretch in them which allows you to get better angles around the roll bar and get a better fit. If you are planning to purchase or have purchased the shade top I highly recommend buying some extra cords so they are there when you need them. The extra slack in these cords does not at all affect the performance of the shade top, it does not have any extra give and does not flap around in the wind.

If you like to run top down in the summer without having the hot sun beating down on you then this product is just what you need. You don’t have to deal with window channels and if you run into rain then you can throw the top right over the top of it without having to take the shade top off. Don’t worry about headroom being compromised with the shade top on, my husband is a tall guy with a big head and he has plenty of room.

In our haste to get out of NY NY we left the insert to our Cloverpatch Window Roll behind. This is by far our favorite Jeep accessory and we consider it a must have. For the non Jeep readers and the Jeep readers who haven’t heard of it the Cloverpatch is four heavy sheets of felt that is secured at the top, you place a window between each layer, roll it up, velcro it, put it in a small bag and then snap it into place between the roll bars. We have used it so much this summer, the windows on the soft top are so easy to get scratched and take up so much space when they aren’t in the roll. We used to leave the windows behind and were caught out in the rain without them a few times. With the Cloverpatch they were always right there when we needed them.

I could blame Shane for this, I was in charge of checking out, he was in charge of putting the top up but even I am not that mean. Shane calls me the Tetris Queen and packing the Jeep was always my job so it could be my fault as well (yeah right). All we could think about was beer, lunch and of course more beer. If the Cloverpatch was the only thing we lost I think we did pretty darn good.

For Jeep enthusiasts interested in the Cloverpatch, we bought ours from All Things Jeep

The window roll is the small round cydrical bag strapped across the back.

I was looking for a windjammer alternative for our upcoming trip and after getting discouraged thought about ordering a second Spider Web and running it from the rollbar down the back of the seats. Turns out the people over at Spider Web have already come up with a better option, only problem is they are only giving a sneak peak and it hasn’t been released yet. Have a look at SW3 over on their website. Coming soon doesn’t help me though unless it is ready to ship in the next week. Maybe if I beg I can get one early. What better test for it that a 4000 mile road trip through the desert.