accessories

I love to accessorize my cars. It's a weakness that I have had for the longest time. I dunno when it started - maybe when I had my first car ('75 Pontiac Grand Prix), that came fully loaded with every imaginable accessory available at that time (and even some that didn't, but was retrofitted anyway). If any of you saw my current car ('99 Nissan Altima), you would agree with my affinity with accessories. Although I don't go so far as to pour thousands of $$$ to convert my cars into outright racers (pimp my ride, anyone?), I do indulge in a bit of accessorizing so as to personalize them (to a limit, of course).

Why am I sharing this? I have been bitten by the accessorizing bug again, since we recently purchased a new '05 Nissan Murano. Don't get me wrong, it already has come with plenty of accessories at the point of sale, so there's not much I want to do. But in flipping through the accessories catalog, I saw something that we didn't have - a rear bumper protector:








I know, it's not much - but when unloading and/or loading things from the rear, I just wanted to minimize the chance of creating premature scratches at that area (for some odd reason, the protector did not come standard like in other SUVs). I called a dealer for a price quote, and they gave me a price of about $40. okay...so I noted that, and scoured the web for a better price. Lo and behold, when I went to nissan.autowebaccessories.com, I saw that they offered it for about $30 - that's the price with shipping/handling, and no tax! Needless to say, I ordered it online. It arrived yesterday, and installed without any issues (love it when that happens). So it begins...