2007 "Red Yaris" RS Restoration

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This post has been great to follow! And the basic car you are working with looked great to begin with as well. But as a US-living guy, a couple things about your car surprise me, the fact that it has black mirrors (not body-colored,) and manual windows. I thought CDN RS spec cars came with upgrades to both these items? (Power Windows and Colored Mirrors.) And only CE/LE cars might have not? But your door panels look like they are original RS ones, the place where window switches go is correctly dark colored... I even wondered if a previous owner had "combined" an crunched RS interior with a LE pkg 3 door in good shape? I have an old online CDN 08 HB brochure that shows the original equipment for these cars, and thought that the 07 range was the same. Or am I totally wrong? Many years ago I bought some Canadian parts from a BC dealership and looked closely at a couple LE models (no RS on site,) and always thought that in Canada, I would quickly replace the mirror covers of an LE with US-sourced colored covers...

In any case, thanks for a fantastic post about rebuilding your car! And I hope you don't mind my intrusion. Again, Great Work so far!

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Originally Posted by Snappy

This post has been great to follow! And the basic car you are working with looked great to begin with as well. But as a US-living guy, a couple things about your car surprise me, the fact that it has black mirrors (not body-colored,) and manual windows. I thought CDN RS spec cars came with upgrades to both these items? (Power Windows and Colored Mirrors.) And only CE/LE cars might have not? But your door panels look like they are original RS ones, the place where window switches go is correctly dark colored... I even wondered if a previous owner had "combined" an crunched RS interior with a LE pkg 3 door in good shape? I have an old online CDN 08 HB brochure that shows the original equipment for these cars, and thought that the 07 range was the same. Or am I totally wrong? Many years ago I bought some Canadian parts from a BC dealership and looked closely at a couple LE models (no RS on site,) and always thought that in Canada, I would quickly replace the mirror covers of an LE with US-sourced colored covers...

In any case, thanks for a fantastic post about rebuilding your car! And I hope you don't mind my intrusion. Again, Great Work so far!

Thanks! No intrusion. Always great to have lots of input. Not sure what options came with the RS in Canada. I think the VIN number brings the car up as an RS. I suppose it's possible that someone changed the interior out, but the entire interior, seats, trim, headliner and all are the same as my silver RS. Another feature that suggests that it's an RS is the factory holes drilled for the side skirt pins. However, you have me intrigued now! Haha. I'll do some more digging. Thanks! Oh, and if the mirror surfaces are prep-able, I'll paint them the body color when I paint the car. BTW, I'd love to see the brochure if you're willing to share. I love that stuff.

EDIT: I found this:

https://www.autotrader.ca/research/t...power%20locks.

Then there's this (though USA, I believe). It shows power locks, windows, A/C and a few other things as options. It does look like body colored mirrors were standard equipment. I wonder if the mirrors were replaced on my car. It had definitely been in a few fender benders. Both front fenders look like aftermarket ones. I was planning to pick up two at the U-Pull before painting the car. Or, what I have here is really a CE done up like an RS. I'm going to look on my insurance card. The policy links the VIN to a model and trim automatically. I'll post up the result after I check. Again, very intriguing.

https://www.auto123.com/en/new-cars/.../2007/3-dr/rs/

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I think I downloaded this from Toyota.ca back in 08.
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