Date:         Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:38:04 -0500
Reply-To:     vw4x4@FYI.NET
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From:         Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject:      SA quality -Re: 1998 SA Vanagon on eBay UK
Comments: To: tp@WHSMITHNET.CO.UK
In-Reply-To:  <E1AiauF-0009pr-Mm@mk-webmail-2.b2b.uk.tiscali.com>
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Thanks for this web page, but what I can tell you is with South
African building it,  the quality was left out!   I've seen the tiico
engines from SA,  the SA grill / head lights, and the SA wheels,
 and had enough.
You couldn't give this thing to me.   I need a vehicle I can depend
on, in the middle of the woods.  I would not call them junk, but I do
put them in the same class of many other poorly built vehicles.
                                                    Eric


Tony Polson wrote:

> I thought you North American guys might like to drool over this van,
> which
> is a camper conversion on a 1998 South African Microbus (Vanagon):
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2453849758
>
> Note the 2.6 liter 5-cylinder Audi motor, the 15 inch OEM alloy wheels
> with
> 205/65 R15 tires and A/C.  Also note the deeper side windows and smoother
> profile - the post-1991 SA Vanagons had distinctive, smoother body sides
> that were never seen on German-made models.  This one has only 31,000
> recorded miles - and is priced accordingly!
>
> My new Vanagon is also South African; it's a white 1995 Caravelle with
> the
> same 2.6i engine and the same alloy wheels.  I will receive it three
> weeks
> from now.  It will replace my 1985 Transporter 1.9 WBX with Reimo camper
> conversion.  Thankfully, it cost me much less than half the price of
> the one
> on eBay, but it has covered 90,000 miles - including an overland trip
> from
> Cape Town to the UK!
>
> I haven't yet decided which UK conversion company will convert my new
> van,
> but it will be a day van with a bed rather then a full camper.  It
> will have
> neither an elevating nor fixed high top because I like to be able to
> park in
> multi-story parking lots across the UK, most of which have a 2.0 meter
> height limit (6'6").
>
> Tony
>
>