AuthorTopic: Santana Vit, VS Jap Vit, VS SA Vit  (Read 1723 times)

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Offline Evilgoat

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Santana Vit, VS Jap Vit, VS SA Vit
« on: January 14, 2008, 11:41:41 »
Been trawling round the scrapyards of late, specially after my cluitch pedal fell off and I think I've spotted a trend.

Every Rotbox vit I've looked at seems to be a Jap one with the Santanas being intact. Not even seen one of the American ones.

So are the Satanas better built? Anyone else spotted this?
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Re: Santana Vit, VS Jap Vit, VS SA Vit
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2008, 19:56:37 »
Mine is a spainsh built model.Really the only rot seem's to be the wings..

Suzuki main dealer informed me certain parts are going to be a little more expensive than those of a jap vit..

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Re: Santana Vit, VS Jap Vit, VS SA Vit
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2008, 20:34:35 »
probably a silly question but how do you know which country yours was built in?

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Re: Santana Vit, VS Jap Vit, VS SA Vit
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2008, 21:02:30 »
Chassis numbers i belive

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« Last Edit: January 15, 2008, 06:37:18 by Lincs Zuki »
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Re: Santana Vit, VS Jap Vit, VS SA Vit
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2008, 21:30:21 »
probably a silly question but how do you know which country yours was built in?

Mine has a Santana VIN plate. 'Built by Sanata Motors'
I must confess the the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occured to him.

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Re: Santana Vit, VS Jap Vit, VS SA Vit
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2008, 18:36:13 »
the best way to way to see what you got is the color of the vin plate,

blue is jap

silver is Spanish

hope that helps ;)

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Re: Santana Vit, VS Jap Vit, VS SA Vit
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2008, 12:27:03 »
I have got a spansh built vit and rear inner arches were none existent. Up here in stoke it seems to be the other way round in the scrap yard - the spanish ones are rotten as pears and the jap ones are solid as rocks so i guess it just depends how it has spent its life
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