We’ve had 2 wranglers over the years. Mid 90s model with the soft top and a 2018 JL with a hard top. The noise is mostly road noise and due to thin skinned doors and absolutely no insulation on the top. Firewall still handles engine noise quite well.
Still, recon is supposedly much quieter. And...
It has been mentioned somewhere in a review, but I couldn’t tell you which one at this point. They all run together by now.
As far as noise… this your first wrangler? Cause uh… it’s not the SOY that makes it noisy. They’re just loud vehicles. You should go drive an older soft top 😝
From what I understand (no first hand experience - Yet), the Recon in general is much quieter than the Wrangler overall, even with the Sky One Touch. Is it noticeable compared to a non wrangler, sure, but I think coming from a wrangler already with the SOT, you’ll feel a significant improvement...
I think Jeep is playing their hand differently with the Recon.
When you look at the Wagoneer S, Jeep sold about 11,000 of them in the first year, with a steep decline in sales shortly after launch. Jeeps new CEO took over in Aug of this year, and from the figures we have heard, only 1200 recons...
Dealerships have been all over the place. Half of them have no idea what they are talking about and can’t be bothered to look into it.
I’ve had more than one dealer tell me that “no one has a recon “ and they won’t be out for “months”. Meanwhile, I already knew for a fact that was incorrect.
The odd ball is a single recon in Maryland. No other recon has made it to the East Coast. Most of the ones actually available right now are along 2 corridors.
TX -> Southern Ca
TX -> Midwest
Which makes sense with them being shipped via rail.