Friday, December 31, 2010

Our new van

We are the proud new owners of a beautiful Pearl Blue colored Town and Country Limited. Is is nice!! It has 2 dvd players, power doors, stow and go seats, navigation, remote start, heated seats, 2nd row windows that open and so much more. It has a 6" screen on the dashboard with so many things to do-like Siruis radio and backseat tv (both for 1 year only), back up camera, navigation, i-pod hookup, voice command. It's going to take some serious playing with it to figure it all out.


The day we got it the battery was having a hard time staying charged, so they told us to drive home with everything on and turn everything off when we got home. When we picked the kids up from Grandma Smith's house the tv's were on. The kids came out so excited and Rebecca pointed to the tv and said "tv"! Since the driver has ultimate control of the dvd screens-they won't be on around town.
We got a great deal on the van. We have 0% for 72 months. We added a 7 year bumper to bumper warranty.

On Thursday we brought the van back to the dealer to get an undercoat on the outside of the van, and a protectant spray on the inside. The outside spray has a 10 year warranty. If we get any rust they will replace that part with a new body. And the inside if it gets any marks they will clean it for us for 5 years. But because of the weather it took longer for it to dry and we alost didn't get the van back for the weekend. While they had our van we had a 2011 Chevy Sierra for a rental. It was a very nice truck. Rebecca loved sitting in it. It was so fun to hear her say "truck". The kids all enjoyed the truck-but were happy to get the van back.

The kids now want to be the last one in and out of the van so they can push the button to open and close the door.

We traded our red Dodge Grand Caravan in. We cleaned the van all up to trade it in, and it looked so nice. It was a great van. We bought it used with 13,000 miles when I was pregnant with Corrine, and we traded it in 8 years later with 106,000 miles on it. It took us on lots of fun trips across the country. In the time we had it we only had 2 small accidents. One time I hit the driverside sliding door on a cement barrier in a parking ramp (fixed) and the back bumper had a dent which we think came from backing into a snow bank.


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