Thought about trading in and changed my mind

[Murph]

My 05 4.4 now with 130K miles is getting a bit older. We've had it for 70K of those miles. It's had a transmission at 90K, new variable intake manifold at 110K, the internal engine usual stuff as well. All covered by BMW incidentally. Anyway, we just had to do front axles, tires, both front door handle carriers and started thinking we should trade it. Well we looked at a few vehicles including a used Volvo XC90. Both my wife and I decided that our now 11 model year old E53 with 130K miles is still more car/SAV/SUV than anything else we looked at including that XC90. We decided to keep the old girl as we still enjoy it and like it. It still looks like new especially after a day of love with my Porter Cable and armful of Griots products inside and out.

We may get another CPO X5 eventually but probably would look towards the 6 cyl ones. Every BMW I've had with a V8 has had some issues going back to my E38 and E39. Every in line 6 BMW in the family has been bullet proof.

That is all...