What you are calling "a bigger cover around the shift boot, too" is
likely a duct for the heater to the rear compartment seating area. One
like this was stock on some of our Vanagons and is shown on Bentley page
80.12. It was deleted after the rear heater became standard.

Mark

Keith Ovregaard wrote:
> Interesting to notice some of the differences in the SA Vanagon, like the
> two LED warning lights mounted below the hazard light switch and the multi
> punned socket on the steering column cover. What is that for? OBDll? I like
> the storage tray on the dash and also the tray below. Looks like a bigger
> cover around the shift boot, too. Nice improvements.
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Raimund Feussner <rfeussner@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> I have these two pictures of the SA-dash:
>> www.v6bus.de/Bild0658.jpg
>> www.v6bus.de/Bild0659.jpg
>>
>> Regards
>> Raimund
>