Congrats, Effie, and best of luck with the new toy! Yeah, send more details. I love cars. Bright red one, I see. Probably a bit too conspicuous for Paul or Scott’s tastes.  20 years/200,000 miles is a good value for any car, so don’t feel bad about putting in that $100. Think of it as a farewell present for outstanding service over all these years!

Chuck

From: UTS [mailto:uts-bounces@starmanet.com] On Behalf Of Effie in the desert
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 9:20 PM
To: uts list; Don Krueger; Mike Parker; sharonparker@prodigy.net
Subject: [UTS] New toy

Long story short - the pickup started having acceleration problems. It was diagnosed last Thursday as needing a clutch - about $1000 repair. The truck is 20 years old with almost 200,000 miles on it. It has a cracked windshield, body dents, leaks oil, and gets poor gas mileage (at least in my opinion).

I decided it wasn't worth putting a $1000 into it, so today I bought a 2010 Nissan Versa. It has 70,354 miles. The above photo is my new car.  I have more photos and more detail about it if anyone is interested.  I copied all the stuff about the car from the dealer website so unlike when I took photos of the new truck and sent it to you all, I don't have to be the Paul Forrester.

The one thing I'm mad at myself about is that last Wednesday I put $100 worth of maintenance work into the truck. Sigh....I knew I was taking it in on Thursday to find out why it wasn't running right so why didn't I wait to do that maintenance???????  I guess because I like to throw away money?

I never made quick decisions so I hope this one was the right one.

Effie