The details are spread around a few of the other threads, but to summarize, yes the gearbox was on the way out, so was the steering rack, the alternator and a wheel bearing. The drivers door kept on locking my wife in the car, and the engine would regularly flood when cold.
Sandra also scraped the nearside on a protruding rock.
Another factor was my father passing away a couple of months ago. We now have to ferry around my mother, who at 78 finds the SVX hard to get in an out of. We also now need to carry 3 adults and 2 kids.
Taking time off work to fix a car costs me a lot of money (you know how much plumbers charge per hour
) and to fix the car would have meant many months without transport.
After much deliberation we therefore decided that the SVX had to go and the dealer offered us £3750 against a new XT