Bestop Soft Doors - DO THEY LEAK ??? 

I submitted a review of these doors on Bestop.com and I'm not at all surprised that they decided not to make it public. I didn't bash the product at all. I just gave an extremely honest review. Food for thought. I still love the door...as long it's not raining outside.

I'm 60 and am on my 4th jeep. Suggestion. Pull the drain plugs in the floor board and keep Jeeping. Free interior cleaning with every rain.

one thing that changed my jeeping experience was when I line-x'd the interior. it cost me around $1000 Canadian (I did the interior strip and prep, took about 12 hours if you have an 08-12 with the fiber glass heat insulation crap. now I run with the plugs out all summer and could care less if water gets in there. if your putting the kind of money we put into these jeeps might aswell make them as barebones as you can. forget the smelly carpets.

I had the same issue with the rugged ridge. I just got the element doors with enclosures. I think im going to buy the cover so i don't have to keep swapping doors. There is literally no seal on the bottom doors even with the supplied weather stripping. I like to run within mine all summer. Once you pull the plugs it makes life alot easier. Especially in summer when it's hot enough for the carpet to dry. I also keep the carpet mats out in the summer. To me it's worth the aggravation when it's nice out and the half doors are in force!

I have the identical setup. Bestop trektop NX with the bestop soft doors. In dry weather the tops push out from pressure and in the rain allows weather in that opening while rain from the road gushes in at lower front portion of lower doors making my carpet puddle up. I bought them so I can go out of town without doors and pull them out of the back if caught in the rain but not so much so, after all. If jeep is PARKED in the rain, they're not so bad. Let me add that my bestop trektop nx is great, fits nice, and surprisingly quiet.

You can create a nice low profile rubber gutter that runs across the top and down to the side view mirror. You need to remove the door seal from the equation. Everyone tries to get the seal to work, but shielding the seal from rain works better. The big problem is where all he oem gutters and channels dump the water at the top front portion of the seal. Need to remove that from the equation.

2 weeks after taking off the softdoors, I moved them to another location in the garager. When I flipped them upside down a bunch of water poured out of the lower gasket. I guess there needs to be a cap at the top of the gasket so this doesn't happen when your jeep fills with water in the rain.

I know this video is old, but I got a great deal on a used set, and man I worked at it for weeks. It is not possible to achieve a good seal up top. Down at the bottom of the well is no big deal and it will run out, but up top is pretty critical. Sunny day doors only I guess.

I've got the soft doors too. The instructions does not say anywhere that they will not leak. I take my carpets out in the summer and pull the drain plugs.

The Bestop Soft Doors were never intended to be for a daily driver. They were built to keep some of the dust etc out while on the trails. We Jeepers have decided we should use them on our daily drivers. Yep, they leak. As for the lead edges of the front doors pulling out at speed, again these were never intended for highway driving. That being said, you can use a velcro strap around the sun visor arm and the leading edge of the front door frame to pull the edge tight so it won't flutter. It also helps w/ any rain if you are driving in the rain. No I don't work for Bestop, I have the doors and have looked for fixes to issues as well as contacted Bestop about them. You can also cut those long dangling weather strip pieces shorter on the uppers and I used some clear tubing from the hardware store to link the upper door weather strip to the lower.

For whats its worth,i bought my 08 new with factory half doors and upper.u hava less water than me.especially with the wind u mentioned.i cut out the footwell carpert,and rhino lined it..jeeps get wet period. Get a house with a garage or bestoo also sells a car cover!!!

I just installed mine and they are going to need lots of adjustment. My drivers door won’t even latch 😂

What are those mirrors you're using with these? Thanks!

lol good thing you didn't buy a Jeep in the 70's

Not getting these now lol

Why bother? In nice weather you can just remove the factory doors.

That's a lot of leak. Try a different brand.