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skorpioskorpio · 10-02-2014, 11:47 AM

Well, ladylike entry into a 4x4 is probably not going to happen no matter what you do, especially if your wife is 5 foot nothing, but I respect your attempt.

I do think though that maybe the approach is a full door and a cutaway door with an opening shaped more like a Jeep or the Scout pic I attached, and just have them as lift off interchangable. I know it means you always have to store a set of doors, but when you run in door off, roof off mode you still retain the structure of the body somewhat and you don't have to figure out how to rig up seperate latching mechanisms for half doors vs full doors because you have full door jambs either way. You could leave enough door structure to mount mirrors with no door top of any sort you have no place to mount a mirror unless you mount it on the edge of the fender and then it becomes unusable when you have a full door with vent glass frame unless you go way forward so you are looking at the mirrors through the windshield.

The only thing it doesn't address is the step issue, but that is an easy problem to solve without getting the door involved, 4x4 steps are not a rare feature.

10-02-2014, 11:47 AM	#2390
skorpioskorpio Registered User Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 1,018	Re: PO has me PO'd Well, ladylike entry into a 4x4 is probably not going to happen no matter what you do, especially if your wife is 5 foot nothing, but I respect your attempt. I do think though that maybe the approach is a full door and a cutaway door with an opening shaped more like a Jeep or the Scout pic I attached, and just have them as lift off interchangable. I know it means you always have to store a set of doors, but when you run in door off, roof off mode you still retain the structure of the body somewhat and you don't have to figure out how to rig up seperate latching mechanisms for half doors vs full doors because you have full door jambs either way. You could leave enough door structure to mount mirrors with no door top of any sort you have no place to mount a mirror unless you mount it on the edge of the fender and then it becomes unusable when you have a full door with vent glass frame unless you go way forward so you are looking at the mirrors through the windshield. The only thing it doesn't address is the step issue, but that is an easy problem to solve without getting the door involved, 4x4 steps are not a rare feature.