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What do you think will "pop"? AFAICT what kills old cars is getting a garage bill for "more than it's worth" for something routine (brakes, tyres, suspension bits, etc) rather than the car breaking.
If you're happy with the car, there's no particular reason you can't run it forever if by throwing occasional money at it. You'll still come out ahead over the silly money you could spend on financing another one.
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An expensive part of the coolant system shitting the bed then head gasket failure is always a good way to kill a car.
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As said, something maybe downstream of the coolant leak or something structural. The Panda died due to suspension mounts. Availability of parts and cost vs value meant I scrapped it for £300. Granted the C Max holds a little more value than the Panda, but it potentially wouldn't take much to make it uneconomical to repair. Eg. if something cost £1.5k to fix, that's half the value of the car, which you would think would be worth doing, but it's not going to add £1.5k in value and something else could equally go bang once I fix the £1.5k problem.
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getting a garage bill for "more than it's worth" for something routine (brakes, tyres, suspension bits, etc)
Seems familiar... I just paid a bill for new rear suspension and a few other bits that was ~50% of my car's value.
Sounds worse than it is when the car is cheap. Chucking it and buying another one of the same is just like starting the whole defect lottery from square one.
Nef
stevo_com
Cupcakes
My C Max is 14 years old, cost £4k to me to buy. I've spent probably £500 on it. If it does pop any time within the next 18 months, it will have cost me more per month than that lease deal. Such is the unpredictability of (some) older cars. It could go on for another 10, I just don't know.