I had this type of relation with my previous Peugeot 307. Bought it used for €6000, drove it for ten years. Towards the end, all the ABS sensors were held on by epoxy since the bolts had snapped off during replacements. Fun fact, when the ABS system is out of operation and you lock up the wheels on an icy road going 70-80 km/h, the car is easy to control but it automatically turns on the hazard lights. Confused the hell out of me at first.

I had a jury rigged wiring harness for the front indicator lights. The exhaust consisted more and more of my crappy stick welds rather than original metal. I had changed basically all suspension and brake parts at least once myself. Main headlights were starting to wear thin since the haze had been polished off many times.

Drove it until the front right wheel literally fell off during one Christmas holiday (the steering link broke and the wheel turned 90 degrees out, fortunately at low speed). At that point it had close to 300 000 km on it, and we had been test driving new cars for almost a year in anticipation of the final trip to the eternal rusting fields. Total cost of ownership was amazing though, and it was really spacious and practical, I miss that car.