rell43

hi all, been in the market for an uplander for sometime now. had almost every chevy venture year. now time for a change. heres my question does anybody know how to search for a short uplander instead of an extended. seems the shorts are hard to find in my area. is the lettering different far as the ls or lt doesnt matter what year. thanks for reading.

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Papa Bear

I have an '07 LS RWB but the LS was available in the EWB as well.
Are you from the US? There are lots of regular wheel base Uplanders in Canada.
Good luck in your hunt.

icestationzebra

FYI - you can spot a short vs. long wheel base by the door track on the side of the van. If there is an open slot all the way to the tail light is is a SWB, but if there is a filler strip it is a LWB.

My father-in-law's best friend owned and ran a small Pontiac dealership and he didn't know how to tell the difference. No wonder he went out of business.

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chrisadams

That was a good tip on spotting the SWB vs. the LWB.
I just look at the width of the strip just past the rear door in pictures. if it's wider than a hand, it's a long.

People almost never mention long or short in their adds.
We wanted a short, found 3 out of 20 being sold locally.
Bought a long because the vehicle was that much better than any of the shorts we drove. Would have preferred a short, but never found one under 75k miles, and all three had issues. One was a poorly repaired wreck, another had wheel bearings falling off, poor maintenance, 85k miles, the third was just way out of line price wise, at 76k miles. It also needed wheel bearings, etc.
Bought the long because it had 26k miles, clean and maintained.


Short vans handled much better, were very handy in parking lots. Held a lot less cargo, with the seats out.

Also, oddly, the shorts induced motion sickness in one family member. Same as the Chrysler, Honda, Toyota etc. minivans.
The long wheelbase doesn't have the same rocking motion.
So if you suffer from minivan seasickness, the long wheelbase extended Uplander shouldn't cause it.