Optional full hard top for rack/camping/overlanding
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I saw a picture on the SM site of the Traveler with a full rack and the cabana open. It looks like the rack mounts outboard of the cabana track. Also read that a full steel top (no opening) will be available.
I’m concerned about rain intrusion over the years with a cabana top. It just seems like a feature I don’t need. I would prefer a hard top or sunroof.
I have said this in many threads - and given they are doing factory direct sales it should not be a problem. Offer us a hardtop - preferably reinforced and insulated. Virtually every cursed vehicle I have purchased from a dealer has had some sort of sun roof. I DON"T want one. My F250 is my newest vehicle. I don't open the sunroof, but my wife decided to play with the buttons one day she borrowed it. It broke one of the cables, broke part of the plastic channel. $4500 to get the damn thing to close and work again. Almost $5k to fix an option that I did not want, but did not want to wait 5 months on a custom order to not get (I did spec out every other option on the truck and this was as close as the dealership could find and trade for).
I hear you. My second car went back under lemon law due to constant sun roof problems. That said I’m gonna gamble the cabana top. Worst case it leaks, goes back under lemon law and I get a new one with fixed pano roof
Glutton for punishment I suppose
Will the glass roofs have some kind of tinting? In the glass or retractable shade?
VW Audi are quite adept at making no-leak, no jam panoramic sunroofs. I’ve had Land Rovers, almost all of them had leaky, prone to cockeyed opening sunroofs. Some manufacturers are very good at it, and they may be able to borrow from Atlas-Q7 with a properly engineered option for Traveler.
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