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How To Protect Your Jeep Windows After Cleaning

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...

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How To Clean Jeep Windows & Best Products To Use

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.

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How to Prolong The Life of Your Plastic Jeep 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.

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Old Jeep, New Owner

If you're like me, then you're probably interested in seeing how things change over time.

Say, for instance... a Jeep.
Or... a puppy.

Today's post will satisfy the first one.
The next post will be filled with updated pictures of our now 4-month-old puppy, Tenor.

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The Best Way To Find A Jeep Wrangler Online

I got an e-mail the other day from JL:

"Have read your post about getting your latest Jeep. Ran across the article while trying to locate an Unlimited for myself (and daughter, and soon to be puppy who will grow leaps and bounds...) Anyway, have you ever found it challenging to locate a decent Wrangler to purchase? Most of the online searches for my area are coming up short, more like 'temporarily out of stock' is the norm, so I thought I'd seek your words of wisdom on the topic."

To JL and other Jeep seekers out there, the best advice I can offer for finding a Jeep Unlimited (especially one that's reasonably priced), is to wait patiently -- because, as you know, they are few and far between.

Other than that, I can share with you what worked for us.

We went through this process three times in search of a used Jeep (once a Wrangler; once a Wrangler Unlimited, and once a Grand Cherokee), and here's what we did each time...

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WARNING: How To Remove Snow & Ice From Vinyl or Plastic Jeep Windows

We are preparing for our first Winter with a Jeep Wrangler soft top. No, staying warm will not be the problem... the heater works GREAT!

What's troubling me most at this point is how to remove snow and ice from the vinyl/plastic windows of our soft top when we drive from Tennessee to Ohio (and Indiana) for the holidays. (Our other Jeep had a hard top. This one does not.)

I learned a couple valuable lessons today that other Jeep owners might find helpful...

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We Carved One-of-a-Kind Jeep Wrangler Pumpkins (ver. 1.0)

Okay, so the Halloween gods finally caught up with us this year, and we paid the price for our procrastination.

Dearly.

Here's how it all went down...

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Jeep Templates For Carving Halloween Pumpkins

For the Jeep fans...

Here are a few Jeep templates for carving Jeep Halloween pumpkins this year.

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Video: Jeep Commader Dives 1,200 Feet For Operation Gratitude

Jeep certainly used a one-of-a-kind promotion to showcase their 2006 Jeep Commander and to announce their partnership with Operation Gratitude as a means of getting donated items to U.S. Military Soldiers.

Jeep is making nearly 2,800 Jeep dealerships nationwide official "drop zone" locations for Operation Gratitude, a national non-profit organization that collects comfort items and letters of appreciation from the American public and ships them to service members overseas.

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Balsam Mountain Offroading

In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, just outside of Cherokee, NC, is a 14-mile trail known as Heintooga Round Bottom Road. It looked pretty tame, so Lynnette and I decided to give it a spin in our Jeep.

The good news is that just about anyone can take this trip. A 4WD vehicle is not required.

The highlight of the trip was this rocky water crossing. The entire way, we only passed 2 other vehicles and 1 mountain biker... and we just happened to capture both cars going through the water.

(The other one's in the video below.)

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