Kia

Sportage Shortage

May 4, 2012

I thought that was a pretty clever title for a blog post, but it only makes sense if you are reading it with the American pronunciation.  From the Kia USA ads that I’ve seen on TV, they pronounce it differently than we do in Canada.  Sportage rhymes with shortage in the USA.  Here, it rhymes [...]

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Tired of Tires

October 26, 2011

That was kinda what my tire looked like this morning before I came into work.  Except that it was 5:45 in the morning, pitch black, and really cold. For the last 2 weeks or so, I’ve had what can only be described as an ever increasingly not-so-slow leak in my read driver’s side tire.  Initially [...]

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Puff the Magic Spectra (Part 1) (repost)

September 17, 2011

[Originally posted Jan 27, 2009] Puff the Magic Spectra Lived by the Sea A cursed car, with broken parts And a knack for stranding me…. Hmm…  I wonder what the topic of this post is going to be??? I had an appointment yesterday with my mechanic.  I called him last week and told him that [...]

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Good Ole CAA

April 16, 2011

My CAA membership expires at the end of the month. I’d never really considered NOT renewing it, but I wasn’t sure if I would bother to renew it immediately. I’ve had a change of heart! The brakes on the Kia seemed a little soft last night but it could have simply been my imagination. As [...]

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Car Wars – The Search for a New Ride

June 5, 2010

You may have heard me grumbling nearly 2 weeks ago that my car wasn’t working..  AGAIN!   I didn’t really get into it, because I didn’t want to tell only one part of the story, and it seemed like it (the story) was moving along nicely.  I figured that when it had unfolded completely that I [...]

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