Bloo’s Report Card.

Posted by terri | Filed under bloo, watashi

This entry is a several days overdue, but this is Bloo’s first year report card.

Nissan Versa! Nissan Versa!

Bloo is my 2007 Nissan Versa SL Hatchback, which I bought and drove off the lot on July 6, 2007. She was my first brand new car, which I was able to be in debt for afford since I had finally graduated from college. She has been an awesome little car with lots of room and pep contained in her tiny body. I have especially enjoyed the CVT transmission which has made for great power and efficiency up steep hills (took it up Tantalus and it works goood!) and an incredibly smooth ride (which would be sooo much better if the C&C would fix the damn potholes every now and then).

On July 6 of this year, she had about 11,500 miles on her. Gas mileage wasn’t as good as I had hoped it would be. I think at most I get about 29 MPG, but I guess if I coasted more as CVT would allow, I would get better mileage. And aside from the usual maintenance, I only had to make one trip to the dealer. In an earlier entry I complained about how the car wouldn’t start . My hunny took it to the dealer armed with printouts of a bunch of online complaints about the very same problem, and the dealer took care of it by replacing the fuel pump.

I was in love again, but I soon became the neglectful owner. I guess it all started when my car got my first little ding. Someone who parked next to me on the driver’s side pulled out their door a little too much. I’m inclined to believe that it was done in the parking lot near my house, but I guess I can’t prove it. It can be kind of a relief having your first little ding, especially when you’re not the one who caused it, but of course, who am I trying to kid? It’s a sad sight to see. And so my car since then has had less washing and less attention than it did when I first got her. She sort of became a forgotten child when I started working on getting my house fixed up. And unfortunately, the result has been this:

Poor Bloo! Poor Bloo!

Poor Bloo got some gunk on her that a simple car washing weeks later couldn’t take off. Yes, I know I should have taken care of it right away, but instead I let it sort of bake itself on there for several weeks as I was attending to other things as well as jetting off to California. It finally took a trip to City Mill and the purchase of “Krud Kutter” to finally get that taken care of. Well, most of it anyway. I kind of did a half ass job then, too.

I am far from falling out of love with Bloo; she is the best car I could have ever hoped for. I shall rekindle my passion for her once again, I know it.

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3 Responses to “Bloo’s Report Card.”

  1. Brandon Says:
    July 12th, 2008 at 11:28 pm

    LoL, so… for the report card part, what does Bloo get? haha

  2. terri Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 12:01 am

    Haha, that’s a good question. I’d say an A! :)

  3. Victoria S Says:
    September 27th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    Cute! I just got my new car in May and I love her to death. She doesn’t have a name yet. Every time I get the monthly payment ‘reminder’ I always smile. She’s all mine. Every pennies worth.

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