Good to read that. Just goes to show that if you have the skills and confidence to carry out that level of maintenance that you can get real value from a car.
As we've discussed before, although vehicles that size and configuration aren't always absolutely necessary, the occasions when they prove very useful, for me anyway, far outweigh any downsides. Except perhaps reducing the number of excuses not to go to IKEA, sometimes it feels like it's probably worth getting a smaller car just to avoid that. ;-)
I do also totally get your reluctance to change, I think maybe there comes a stage in life when you know what you want and what you don't, and if you already have what you want and it still makes sense, than why move to something you would feel was compromised in some way.
A friend of ours has 5 series estate of similar vintage to yours which he uses as a van really for his part time house renovation "business". It gets fairly abused but seems to soldier on year after year. Pretty strong cars it would seem.
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