Anyone else have any comments about any Aerostar features you like or not?
I am starting to notice a few differences btw my old 93 and my "new" 97. I only am mentioning those things that are noticeably better in one or the other - won't mention the incidental differences.
Also, I don't know if these are options that I'm talking about or not. I only had these 2 models and haven't checked around that much.
#1 - Reclining back seats
Both rear seats in the 93 recline fully and make a half-way decent bed. Also, they make a solid surface from front to rear with no open spaces. The
97 seats' backs fold forward on top of the seat and take up more vertical space (about 4-inches more than the 93). On the other hand, in the 97, you can still put things in the floor and access them from the side door, which is more difficult with the fully-reclining versions. On the third hand, with the 97, you have to lay a piece of plywood over the folded down seats if you don't want thing falling through the cracks - not like the 93.#2 - Rear dome light
The 93 light has a 3-way switch on it -- you can either turn it off, on when the doors are open, or on all the time. The 97 has no switch - always on with the doors open and control by the master switch on the instrument cluster. I like the model with a switch because I carry a lot of stuff in the back and don't want the whole thing lit up at night when I open the door. Easy to change - I'm going to mount a push button switch near the rear light. I don't care about having the 'always on' position on the switch, so that should work fine.
#3 - Interior dome light switch
This is a negative for me on both models. Sometimes I don't want the interior lights to come on when I open a door. As far as I can tell, there's no way to turn them off - turning the light know counterclockwise dims the instrument panel but not the interior lights.
Fred