Thanks for the inspiration Albert!
I look with less dread on this task.

The 95 wagon is now on 116,000, with nothing having gone wrong yet. But...I feel like there is a really large ticking clock hovering over me these days. So far no major problems.

Once, a while ago, I had to replace a heater core on a '65 Riveria I owned and restored...I won't say more, except that it is a very similar project, but with all metal parts everywhere, no plastic! Oh man, was that painful. And yes of course, didn't I have to do it in the middle of August.

Someone in the Riviera owners association figured out a way to actually cut out a re-closable opening in the firewall to remove the core/evap., that's how desperate some people were getting; but I didn't do that, afraid to make a bad situation worse.

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1995 MB E320 Wagon
2001 BMW 530i
2007 MINI Cooper S (!)