Originally Posted by
ofdave
I added the Blue Ridge windshield to my 2017 base model at time of purchase.
There was no change to the forward rails to mount the shield. They are metal.
I chose the base for two reasons, one being price.
The second being less "stuff" to go wrong. No air pump to fail, no airbag to leak, no radio or other electronic gizmos to fail.
I see very few problems mentioned here with the base model. Admittedly, there are much fewer of them but I think a lot of the issues folks have is because of all the electronic complexity on the upper level models.