We’ve already had our first Jeep flooding incident and unfortunately it didn’t come with the adrenalin of a really good water crossing. We live in apartment during the week and don’t have covered parking. We also live on the back side of the building and can’t see the Jeep from our apartment. To keep from having to put the top up every night we bought a Mopar cab cover which at first we though was brilliant; until it rained.

When the top is down water pools between the sound bar and front window, the elastic straps have too much give in them and don’t keep the cover taught enough for the rain to roll off. So, the water is pooling, the top springs a leak, my husband and I are late for a dinner with his work colleagues and its still raining. We are standing in the rain trying to pull the cover off without all the pooled water going into the Jeep. We undo the back; pull it off over the front and success! Well, at least success for me, the water went my husband’s direction.

We put the top up and instead of putting windows on in the rain decide to put the Mopar cover back on since the only problem was the pooling. Now we have a new problem, with the top up there is a gap between the car body and where the back windows should be allowing rain to get in through the sides. The Mopar top while good in theory fails miserably when it comes to practical use. If I had paid full price for it I’d be really annoyed right now. I read an ad for it that said “keep your interior clean and dry” “can be used top up or top down”. I can now say that both statements are false.

Lesson learned: If there is the slightest possibility of rain get my lazy butt out there and put the top up.

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