Trektop Black Diamond 5686235 for Jeep Wrangler JL 2-Door 2018-2027

Takes a few hours to install but mostly time consuming, nothing difficult. A second person is helpful at times, but not required (I'm also 6'2 tho...). I'm impressed with the material quality, even though I bought the standard model and not the more expensive twill model. Its a snug fit when you first install it, and smells of "manufacturing", so it was a great idea to let it sit in the sun with the windows down after install, so it can stretch and air out, before going for a drive. Folding the top back is very easy. Removing back and side windows takes a few minutes but its easy once you do it a couple times. Worst part is where/how to store the windows when you zip them out, so they dont blow around or get scratched up. Havent solved that yet. To access the back, open the swing gate and unzip rear window MOST of the way up. Then roll it up (roll to the inside, away from you, rather than toward you) and it will rest on the sport (roll) bar and actually stay put while you mess with cargo. Make sure your sport bars are clean or any grit can scuff the rear window where it rests (when rolled up). This is just for cargo access, I dont think it would stay here while driving; better removing it then. Nice open air feeling with everything open. Nice snug fit, but not too snug so its easy to work with. Impressively quiet when its up. No leaks. Great top! Standard open means front seats are totally uncovered, and rear seats are fully covered tho (the fold happens directly over the thick middle overhead speaker cross bar). Tip if you want more opening, over the back seats - keep a tool in the vehicle to remove the 3mm allens (2 each side) that hold the first cross bar, over the drivers head. With this bar freed (you're just letting it move, not actually removing it), you can put the top back another section, putting open sky over heads of rear seat passengers as well. It wont go ALL the way back, but gives them some sky overhead, maybe halfway across back seats. Yes it stays this way and you can drive with it; I've tested up to 50mph it doesnt move. To do this, you'll need to NOT attach the velcro to the cross bar that goes across the speaker bar (its a real pain to get to anyway, so skip it and leave detached here if you think you'll want to try the "full open" mod). My pictures show the "standard" opening.

I purchased the Bestop Trektop Soft Top w/ Sunrider in Black Twill back in 2020. At the time, I don’t believe they offered the NX slide/glide option for 2-door JL models, but honestly, this is the version I wanted anyway. This is hands down the best-quality soft top that you can get, and the Sunrider “sunroof” option makes it even better. To be able to open from inside even when I am driving (on trail) is awesome. I don't have backseats in my Jeep so I don't need it to come off all the way. The sport-style rear profile looks fantastic and really upgrades the overall look of my Jeep. To be clear, this is NOT just a soft top, nor just a simple bikini top, mesh or netting, or California top using bungees and etc. This is a fully capable, secure, and weather-ready roof system with a lot of versatility. That said, installation can take a bit of time initially, especially since I’m not someone who typically handles installs like this. I did get some help, and once we got going, it came together very quickly, so I think it was more about my learning curve. The second time I installed it, after briefly switching back to a hard top when I moved, it only took about an hour. Huge difference after you’ve done it once. I wouldn't suggest going on and off with this top. I just needed to logistically. One helpful tip: the rear window zippers can be a little less pliable in cold weather. I’ve found installation and removal is much easier if the top has been sitting in the sun for a bit. Around the 50s°F and up seems to help a lot. Once everything is installed, it’s not so much an issue. But on the trail, if I have all the windows off and need to put them back on quickly in cold temps, if the zippers are being a pain in the ... (now that they're older, this started last year), I have found the zipper lube stuff to be very helpful. I’ve occasionally used a small zip tie through the zipper pull to get a little extra leverage. That’s only happened a couple of times, but worth mentioning. Now for durability, which is really why I wanted to finally leave a review. I’ve had this top for 6 years, and it still performs amazingly. It is my daily driver and my off-road. My job is off-roading. It gets constant use. It has been through Colorado winters, hail storms, intense wind, Arizona heat over 114°F, and well below zero temps. It has also been parked outside often through all of it. Despite all that, it’s still going strong. I also do a LOT of Jeeping in rough terrain at high elevations, around 10,000 to 14,000 feet, where weather changes fast and conditions are unpredictable. This top has handled everything flawlessly. Even at highway speeds, it feels incredibly solid, quiet, and secure. You honestly forget you’re running a soft top. One of my favorite features is how quickly I can open or close it. Up in the mountains, that’s critical. I often run it open even in winter conditions and just close it when needed. It has held up perfectly even on rough, bumpy trails with no issues open or closed. I’ve seen comments about it not laying flat when open, but in my experience, it has been perfect and I have never had to think about it. What impresses me most is how solid and tight everything still feels after years of heavy use. It has absolutely been worth the investment. I would buy this again in a heartbeat, whether for another Jeep or if I ever needed to replace this one. For reference, my Jeep is a 2-door, and our company also runs a fleet of Jeeps for tours and rentals. Several of them also use Bestop products, including one of our 4 doors has the NX glide. So good. Highly, highly recommended.

I like the top for what it is. But somehow I missed that it's not a full convertible top. Maybe a clearer description telling that this is a front seat flip back only. Overall though it does the job. It makes a nice "safari style" top. Installation is not bad. The rear snaps are the hardest part of the install to get snapped for me.

First off understand that this is not a full retractably top. The sunrider very easily opens up above the front row. The 3 windows come off fairly easily but the second row stays covered in any scenario. Ultimately it looks great and fits tight.. Installation does seem very intimidating and I wonder why Bestop doesn't preassemble the pieces that can be although most products are like that. HIGHLY recommend: #1 following the 23 minute video made by Bestop and use the manual as reference. #2 be sure to have the tools they recommend. The parts do NOT come with any tools and if you have the exact ones they use it will go much easier. #3 do the preassembly work inside on a table #4 keep all the bolts, washers etc organized into a bowl or otherwise something to keep them organized. Most of them are VERY small can easily disappear. #5 figure out in advance what bolts are what by #, you'll see what i mean I believe if you are super organized and have a second person doing the opposite side of all steps you could do it in 2 hours, else yes its a slightly challenging 4 hour process. UPDATE: I’ve had the top a couple of months now and I have upgraded the assessment to 5 stars. Always thought it was more than 4 but now after months of usage I have no complaints. Very easy to work with and doesn’t leak that I’m aware of. I am not sure it’s a manufacturer suggested option but I can now fully ‘retract’ it but undoing the Velcro and snaps in the back and tucking the back part under the sunrider. Basically it’s a hack. Even at high speeds nothing moves. So now I have a fully uncovered soft top for less than $1k

I'd give this product zero stars it Amazon would allow it. When searching for a softop alternative to OEM for my Jeep JK, all signs pointed to Bestop. I purchased and was very pleased with the NX Glide I ultimately purchased. After purchasing a new Jeep JL, I immediately turned to Bestop for a new softop for it. Unfortunately, for as much as I loved the Glide for my JK, I hate the NX Trek for my JK. First, it should be made abundantly clear, this is not a fully convertible top. The product description does not make this clear. I called Bestop and was told that possibly next year (2020) a fully convertible model will be available. Now to the extremely poor quality of this product as I've experienced: 1. Far and away the most annoying aspect: The flapping rear window as noted by other reviewers and shown in the user video on the Amazon product page. This is a serious defect not readily apparent upon install but which grows worse and worse as the product stretches, particularly in the heat. I live in the Midwest. We're not talking Death Valley heat here. There's nothing like driving down the highway with what sounds like a search and rescue chopper landing in your back seat. The rear window on the NX Glide for my JK utilized plastic J channel type connector that attached the rear window to the side windows that I think added rigidity. This model utilizes zippers which are obviously flexible. 2. More to the rear window: As others have noted, the bottom of the rear window bar does not seal against the rear door. I think Bestop remedied this from earlier reviews by including a gasket/seal that goes over the rear door of the Jeep but it still is not a complete seal. 3. Even more to the rear window: The bottom bar of the rear window does not stay in the receivers/boots for the bar. I attribute this to two flaws: A. The boots/receivers are molded plastic and are presumably intended to custom fit the corners of the Jeep - except that they do not. As a result, the boots migrate to the interior of the Jeep when the bar is seated in the boot or during travel and the bar flips up. One remedy would have been to have 2 anchor points for the boot, but instead there is only one central anchor that allows the boot to pivot causing an unstable bottom window bar. B. The receivers/boots are made of a less than rigid plastic that is even less so on a warm midwest day. This means that the tab (located on the window bar) and slot (located on the boot), meant to keep the bottom bar in place on the boot and not release, are rendered useless. The plastic is not rigid enough to lock together and prevent the bar from releasing from the boot and flipping up while the vehicle is in motion. Combined with the flotation of the boot, keeping the bottom bar secured in place is challenging. C. The plastic tabs on the rear window meant to insert under the Jeep factory change suffer from bring too long and too short at the same time. The design of the top places the tabs away from the channel so that a long tab is necessary, yet it hardly provides what I would call a snug fit. The tabs actually need to curve to the l meet the channel yet the shallow depth of the channel means that very little of the tab is locked into the channel. The tab/channel combination is insufficient to secure the lower window bar and keep it from springing open. 4. The side windows attach to the mainframe by way of a plastic J hook Bestop refers to as a"Stiffener" that holds to the metal from of the top. The plastic is also of a poor quality and broke several weeks ago on one of my rear windows. The NX Glide for my JK utilized a metal peg which inserted into a hard rubbers like hole on the main from, was well built and secure. The plastic J hook is a break waiting to happen, which didn't wait long in my case. To exacerbate matters, I emailed and then called Bestop when no answer was received. I informed the rep that I had a vacation pending and needed the replacement part rather soon and was assured it was on it's way. When it didn't come (after 2 weeks) I called again and was told it was not in stock. I suggested that they open a box with the entire top in it, remove the part, send it to me, and replace it when the part came into stock. I was told this couldn't be done. I would argue that it could have been done but that it wouldn't be done for who knows what reason. Instead, I was forced to manufacture a part to suit, which is probably more durable anyway but which should have been unnecessary but for a minor bit of customer service and good will to a repeat customer. 5. The main frame cover is held in place, in part, with Velcro across the back bar of the main frame. The user is required to apply the hook and loop to the frame in places his self. Unsurprisingly, a little Midwest heat (again we're not talking about Death Valley or Texas or really any point South of Minnesota) caused the Velcro to come unattached from the back bar of the main frame. This product is badly flawed. It was either rushed to market or is representative of a new Bestop standard of quality. I would not and will not recommend any Bestop product for a Jeep JL until strong verification by Jeep owners indicates that the high standard many of us Jeep owners have/had for Bestop tops has returned, design flaws remedied and maybe just importantly, good customer service has returned. Either go with OEM or wait to see how Bestop approaches the very inferior product. ***The photos depict the various issues and my attempts to Jerry rig the top so that it didn't completely ruin our 9 day Western road trip. Unfortunately, my rigging didn't work and as a result, my kids were lost in this headphones and devices to drown out the noisiness of the faulty top and my wife and I were limited to minimal conversation due to the din, or rather, reached l racket eminating from the rear of the top.

Hubby installed it. It took some several hours, but the instructions were fairly clear. Incredibly tight fit, once installed. We have not had a chance to open it completely up, yet...but I love being able to pop the sunroof portion open every chance I get. Sound-wise...It's not any noisier than with the hard top. (We bought the Twill version.) I had the diamond back for my last Jeep. It held up great, and I had no complaints. But, the Twill is definitely a step above. Its gorgeous. (Please ignore the dirt in the pics...we were on a trail ride in NC. On that note...it cleans up beautifully too!🤣)

Great quality, not hard to assemble and looks really nice! The initial assembly takes a little time, took me approximately 3.5 hours. After that, the top will come off and on in less than 30 minutes. Material is all top notch, clearly marked and nothing was missing. Canvas is thick and warm on the cool nights. The sunrider front piece opens effortlessly with one hand and closes in the same manner. This top is proving to be a great investment!

The frame comes partially assembled but overall install took almost 3 hours. Instructions are confusing at times but I viewed YouTube videos along with the instructions and worked through trouble-spots pretty easily. Great top - the design is awesome and easy to use.

If I had to say I had a complaint it would be that the instructions are not very well written. After thinking about it for a while it kind of comes together. It took about 2 hours to install. So far perfect fit and no wind noise. Love it!

Instructions weren’t the best as far as visual and written instructions but was able to figure it out. Once I got it on it’s a tight fit and looks wicked .

This Top is Perfect !!!!! I originally read the feedback and was worried about a gap at the bottom of the back window but it's mint !!! Tight and Right !!! My last Jeep had the regular soft top but this one is bad ass, head turner !!! Watch the YouTube install video first and with the instructions to give you it's a breeze !!!! Love it !!!! Five Stars !!!

I really love both the look and the functionality of the top. I have seen other reviews complaining of spacing on the back tailgate but mine fits perfectly. Although I wish it came with a full convertible option, the Bikini top is still great. During the installation I found that some of the included bolts were cheap and a couple stripped quite easily. For some bolts I just reused the factory Hard Top bolts which worked out nicely. I also found the included velcro to honestly suck. I wish they would have just installed the strips onto the metal bracket prior to shipping. I found with the tension on the roof they began to lift from the metal. I would recommend installing them first so they have time to adhere.

I was worried about the fit given some of the reviews but mine has no issues. As most folks say, some parts of the installation are not well illustrated but they have enough videos to resolve that. Once you've done the install though the general day to day use is very easy. I have also gone with the "hack" given by other reviewers giving a very low cost easy to operate solution for being totally open.