Thanks for all the kind words of encouragement everyone, it does rather put things into perspective. I must admit I took her out for a drive and my smile has returned.. Which is nice.
The mileometer stopped displaying and is flickering but if it's not too expensive I think I will fix it myself.
Good to hear a drive in the Aero brought a smile back. Remember these cars are quite special and getting on for 14-16 years old, mine is relatively low mileage 17.5k and only 2 previous owners, the history shows 1k a year with the odd year of 2-3k. How anyone owns such a car and resist driving that little I don't know. Can't see the point. Mines been well maintained but still needed a few things sorted as I put in my other recent post. I expect that I will get the occasional issue/niggle on the way, but hopefully only now and again. In reality very fees cars don't need stuff sorting as we put miles on them. Cars left standing can be worse, tyres ca flat spot joints and bushes can rust/oval over a long time, rubbers harden and fail, and so on, I always aim for at least 3-4K a year and change all oils every 5-6k miles. This seems to do the trick and keeps it all running nicely.
Have fun and be careful with the right foot
