After your clean the plastic windows on your Jeep's soft top, you should immediately go through the simple process of protecting them.

In effect, you're locking in the window's own natural oils and adding an extra barrier of protection from the sun's harmful rays and other environmental effects (dust, dirt, pollen, etc.) that can impact the life of your soft top and windows.

Here are the best products for protecting your Jeep windows...

If you own a Jeep (we've owned 3), especially a Jeep Wrangler (we've owned 2), then you already know the appearance of the soft top and windows plays a large part in determining how good your Jeep looks... and how it will look for years to come.

Here's everything you need to know about how to clean the windows on your Jeep Wrangler, plus which products are the best to use that won't damage your soft top windows.

When you buy a Jeep with a soft top, you have one more thing to add to your regular maintenance schedule:

How often?

Any time you can visibly see dirt accumulated on your vinyl windows, you should wash them.

It is important to take every precaution to protect your soft top and vinyl/plastic windows -- if you want them to last a long time without cracking, scratching, fading, yellowing, or fogging.

Think of it this way:
Vinyl is a man-made material with natural oils in it. That's what keeps your windows supple and quite flexible. Once the natural oils dry out, the vinyl goes downhill quickly and begins to fade and crack. Scratches are usually the first sign of aged plastic or vinyl Jeep windows. Next comes fogging and/or yellowing. Then cracking.