I’ve been down with a cold so today is the first chance I’ve had to do some more testing. I decided to switch the back section from a bikini top to a windjammer. Bottom line up front: The SpiderWeb Shade SW-2 top peformed VERY well as a windjammer in this configuration.

There are a couple of different ways you can do this – I decided to go the easy route and just fold it right over the sound bar and back in and down – the pictures will show what I did. It only took a few minutes to switch it and this way also keeps the speakers ‘inside’ of the cockpit. It is fairly windy today so I took a quick test drive and got some pictures. I didn’t get down to the freeway – but got up to about 50 on an already windy day – and I have to say – this thing did REALLY well as wind break. I was surprised actually.

Since I chose to roll it over the sound bar and back in and down, it doesn’t go all the way down – that small gap had some wind coming through it…but for fun I opened up my Tuffy center console lid and that blocked the gap completely! Also,there are ways to do this I am sure that make it go all the way down. The only significant wind I noticed came UNDER the seat to my feet and legs. That was kind of funny actually – you don’t normally notice that because there is so much wind up top. I’ll bet that gets blocked if I run it straight down the roll bar instead of over the sound bar…or you could stuff a towel under your seat or something if it bugs you (I liked the air on my feet actually – with no wind blowing up top – a bonus for the girl Jeepers or guys with girlfriends/wives <or guys with long hair themselves, damn hippies> that hate their hair blowing around…I keep a ball cap and scrunchy in the Jeep for my GF…but she won’t need it with this SpiderWeb Shade SW-2 configuration).

With the doors on and the windows rolled up it was pretty quiet in the cockpit and very little wind. Of course, in order for people to ride in the back, they will have to climb in over the tire…like with any windjammer – but if you have people in back, take 2 minutes to strap it back up as a back bikini top and off you go. As far as being able to see out the back, it was no problem – as you will see in one of the pictures below. Looks-wise I thought it might look funny over the roll bar and back in and down but once I got it up and stepped back to look, I was totally fine with it. Also, very little noise and there was zero flapping. I will probably drive in this configuration a LOT. Pretty impressive. Here are some pictures: