Just a curiosity question for those with Troopers...
On our 2002 Isuzu Trooper, the spare tire cover does not have the "Isuzu Trooper" lettering that every other one I've seen has. If I remember correctly the sheet of paper the dealer had when we bought the Trooper new, the paper was an import statement saying when and where it entered the US. If memory serves, it came in through Norfolk VA in August of 2002. That would tend to put it towards the end of the production run I'm guessing...? Anyway, just curious if anyone else has (or has seen) a Trooper w/o the lettering on the spare tire cover. I'm wondering if they ran out of letters and just stopped putting them on at some point.
Another interesting point - I was talking to a guy in the parts dept at St. Charles Isuzu when I was pricing a new hard-shell cover like that for our 94 Trooper (the vinyl one came apart when we had to use the spare). He said at one point they had a bunch of them for a good price (of course I missed them) - apparently they tire cover was put on after they were imported into the states. So, they had some leftovers to get rid of. I also seem to recall hearing in the early Trooper days (1991 and before) that they came into the US w/o the rear seats to be classified as a "truck" and therefore had a lower import duty to be paid or something like that (supposedly).
Anyway...enough rambling from me... :-)
Wesley