For today, I brought my car to the service center for its scheduled maintenance every 10,000 kms. Basically, the service I asked for involves change oil, tune-up, general checkup of parts and body bolts, as well as bleeding the radiator to replace the water and coolant.
I was quite surprised how the prices of the parts and labor increased since the last time I had my car serviced and checked at the same service center. If I’m not mistaken I only spent more or less 2K last time, but now I spent around 4.7K. It should have only been around 3.6K but they had to replace my car’s radiator cap which costs 1.1K. Geesh! Talk about the expenses for car maintenance. It’s like having another child to support, especially if you consider the price of gasoline nowadays. 
Anyway, there are also some advantages if you are keen like me with your car maintenance. Like in my case, the mechanics who worked on my car at the service center are impressed with how my car looks. They said that the body of my car is like brand new and even the engine is still clean and running in tip-top shape. They find it hard to believe that my car is 10 years old and had already rolled more than 110,000 kms. but still it looks as if it was just released from their sales center. There are some minor scratches of course, but the shine and luster of the original body paint remains. Even the parts under the hood aren’t so greasy or dusty like most cars of the same model. Oh well, I guess that’s the reward I get for cleaning my car at least 3 times a week (more if its the rainy season), tidying up the engine every weekend, and never missing its maintenance schedules. 
But sad to say, I might have to sell my car when my twins are born to purchase an AUV so that my family and I can travel comfortably with more space for us and our things. We’ll see.. 
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