Sandman rims question

**Absinth** · 12-09-2010, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by HK1837

That's a HX Kingswood, not a Sandman. See the badges, side strips and mirrors?

I never said it was a Sandman Byron... I said it was a Holden promotion HX Van.... I posted it to show the optional honeycomb wheels fitted.

My understanding was that special vehicle packages had limited options available to them from the factory and you couldn't delete the standard options on the particular package.... except like decals on Sandman that had a delete option.

**HK1837** · 12-09-2010, 04:17 PM

I didn't mean you said it was a Sandman, I was just pointing out that it wasn't, although when I read my post I see what you mean. My bad, sorry. In any case I don't think you could option PE1 on HX as you couldn't on HJ and HZ commercials, so I assume HX was the same.

You are correct about special vehicle packages. The only real factory options were driveline and colour. Most of the stuff Sandman got was the most popular factory options on base models anyway like GTS dash, GTS rims, buckets, console shift etc. The rest were dealer fitment like mudflaps etc. As stripes were dealer fitment it's not really a factory option to delete them, but a bit of a special case, probably the only one of it's kind I can think of. When you read the special vehicle packages documentation some stuff is pretty wierd, and you realise how much stuff is actually dealer fitment.

**Absinth** · 12-09-2010, 04:38 PM

I have wondered about the radio and whether it was a factory fitted or dealer fitted option.. by the sounds it was dealer fitted which must have been a real pain for the dealer fitting the speaker up under the dash...

Didn't know the decals were dealer fitted..... that changes things a bit for which decals are correct for which colour.... Holden may have had recommendations but it pretty much means an owner could specify to the dealer whatever decal he wanted...

**HK1837** · 12-09-2010, 06:23 PM

GM-H supplied the stripes for dealer fitment. Certain colours were specified in ordering documentation. However as you say, in future judging of Sandmans i'd be letting any stripes go with any colour as they are not a factory fitted item.

As for radios, I'm pretty sure they were factory fitted when standard eg Statesman. Not 100% sure on who fitted the optional ones as there were so many variables. My HJ Premier has a dealer fitted Pioneer cassette player.