Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:34:55 -0700
Reply-To:     BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: South African van differences - when they happened
Comments: To: Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
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Andrew,

IIRC the window and vent differences were only on the 5-cyl models.
The 2.5i you're looking at would be one of those.


BenT
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On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
wrote:

> I'd wondered about the claimed differences I'd been told the RSA T3s
> have to the German ones, as all the images I saw of RSA vans didn't
> differ... window sizes or rear vents.
>
> I bid on a 1990 RSA Caravelle recently; it didn't differ from the
> German; it also had slide heater controls. However I am in the process
> of buying a 1993 RSA Microbus 2.5i, and this van does have larger rear
> side-windows, the rear vent panels are different and it has rotary
> heater/aircon controls.
>
> Looking now at an RSA buy-sell website, I find that a 1992 van is the
> same as a German van, so it would appear that the changes were made
> some time in later 1992.
>
> --
> Regards
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin, New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> Mollusc, Toyota & VW van fanatic