🚗 Elevate Your Hardtop Game!
The Bestop 4280101 HOSS System is a robust solution for safely storing and removing hardtops from 1987-2006 vehicles. It features a hardtop storage cart and a door storage cart, designed for easy attachment and removal, while ensuring your hardtop and doors remain scratch-free and secure.
Manufacturer | Bestop |
Brand | Bestop |
Item Weight | 86 pounds |
Item model number | 42801-01 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Exterior | Smooth |
Manufacturer Part Number | 4280101 |
OEM Part Number | 42801-01 |
M**E
Holds my top and doors.
The door caddy is a bit weak: it flexes under the weight of both doors alone. With the doors loaded onto the cart, the space below (where the top's glass slides in between) becomes shorter. If you aren't careful, the door caddy can come into contact with the plastic cover for the rear window wiper and scratch it.Additionally, the adhesive neoprene strips that are supposed to act as a door edge protector aren't robust enough and can be ripped/mutilated by the edge of the door, ultimately defeating the purpose of putting them on there at all. Buy some adhesive backed rubber tape to use instead.Other than those issues, the cart does what I want it to do, although it is a bit pricey for what it is.
B**N
Not the best instructions on assembly
Not the best instructions on assembly... needs better foam strips for protection. BUT it's a great way to organize your hardtop, doors, accessories. Took about 45 min to assemble (plus 10 min before I realized the door cart piece was upside down). The hardtop cart portion held perfectly and I'm rather impressed as it holds the top in the corner of my storage unit. I'd recommend the product to anyone with a hardtop and hard full/half doors. I would however recommend going to walmart for $3 of foam tape to upgrade from what come with it.
M**E
Great space saver! Must have for the shop
I previously bought just the Hoss hardtop cart only because I already had door bags for my other Jeep, so I was familiar with this product. But I have another Jeep (lucky me!) I recently got running and it also has a hardtop and doors, so I bought the complete Hoss setup this time. It gives you freedom in you shop to maneuver and floor space, and protects this hardware at the same time. Pricey, yes, but worth it since all of this hardware is so heavy! It rolls around super smoothly.
M**N
Garbage
To call this cheap crap would be an insult to low-rent feces. It’s beyond garbage, don’t waste your money.
J**F
It's almost where it needs to be...
This cart isn't perfect. But it's "good enough" if you need a way to store your hardtop and doors. Especially if you have a garage like mine where there's no room for a hoist because of the garage door.I bought this cart after experiencing firsthand how frustrating the hardtop removal process can be, and I had hoped that the fact that it mounts to the top while it's still on the Jeep would make my life a little easier. The idea of having "handles" for the hardtop was one of the main reasons for purchasing.Putting the cart together was a breeze, for the most part. I ended up installing the clips that go under the edge of the hardtop in the wrong order because the manual didn't specify and the drawings were completely ambiguous. But they were easy to fix once I realized they wouldn't work.So when your hardtop is on the Jeep, you first remove the Freedom Top panels (if so equipped). Then you are supposed to clip one end of this nylon strap to the frontmost portion of the top. The strap goes to the back of the hardtop and is supposed to loop around the frame of the cart to hold it in place. There's a plastic length-adjustment buckle that you feed the tail end of the strap through and bring it back to you. You're supposed to tighten the nylon strap until the cart hangs snugly on the top with the clips underneath. From here, you should be able to use the cart as a handle to lift the top off (with help) and set it down on the wheels.Well, it didn't work out that way for me. As I tightened the nylon strap, the little plastic adjustment buckle snapped and the cart crashed down on my tailgate, scratching it in several places and putting a small gouge in my hardtop and sending me into quite a rage. It's a BRAND NEW Jeep, after all. It hadn't even been off road yet by then.After I calmed down, I finished the process, and it was thankfully uneventful.The cart rolls around nicely and I LOVE how much space it saves by storing the top upright. I keep the Freedom Top panels in their bag and keep the bag on the door portion of the cart. That's a separate cart with its own wheels that slides inside the top without touching it. It's great because you can put those panels and/or a couple of doors on it, and the whole package with the hardtop takes up exactly as much space as the hardtop alone. You can see it in the product photo.Anyway, you might expect a bad review because of what happened to me, but that's not the case. Consider it a cautionary tale -- take extra care when tightening the nylon strap. All of my suffering would have been avoided if only I had been more careful with it. Other than that, it was a good purchase. So bottom line: I docked a star for that plastic buckle. It should be metal, maybe rubber coated to keep it from scratching the top.
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