Big Blue: 2005 GMC Yukon Denali

[Jake]

Wow that is interesting to hear about the cost of ownership, I guess that is the conundrum with an older vehicle especially one you are towing with and driving a lot. It sounds like you are figuring out what you want to do with it, which direction are you leaning? Is it holding its value well? It would be nice to find a vehicle under warranty if you can find one to tow with and basically net out what you are spending on this one now.

Yeah, I mean, it's about what I expected for "first year" type of stuff. Everything I've done to it this year should not need re-doing for 2016 or 2017.

The driveline is all very solid. I think the smartest thing to do financially, since it seems like I'm "over the hump" of getting it sorted, is to drive it for another year and try to amortize the costs of 2015 a bit. And I do really just like it. It's a good size, drives well, has a good interior layout, etc.

That said, if the transmission starts flaring between shifts or anything else "telling" starts happening, it'll be traded ASAP. I've put "big money" into it in 2015 and don't want to do that for a second year.

Value-wise, it's holding it well enough that I could sell it and not feel bad, if it came to that.