31st Aug is Malaysia mederka day (independence day). I have a totally different of experience in celebrating the mederka. Early morning I went out with my wife to central market buy roses for her colleague registration. We had our breakfast there. Later we proceed to the bridegroom house and send them the flower.

I like to drive on the road in Klang Valley during the long holiday as there are no many cars on the road, most of them are back to their hometown. I spend about 25 minutes to drive from Subang Jaya to KL. On the way back to home after sending the roses, I told my wife that we can reach home in 30 minutes driving from Kepong via LDP expressway. Usually it would take 45-60 minutes to reach home on normal day.

When we are about to pass through Giant Kelana Jaya, the car suddenly broke down. It was the timing belt problem. Her CLK (Cute Little Kancil) refuse to drive us home safely. We have no choice but park our car in front of the Caltex petrol station since it was public holiday, no one working. We end up calling cab to go back home.

The next day, I called my car service center and ask them to tow my car back to workshop to fix the problem. My mechanic told me that, the car need to do overhaul (major fix up) since the timing belt broken inside the engine, need to change many parts. When the bill came to us, we were shocked the major fixing cost us about RM970 (US262) after some discount. For a little car like this cost so much expensive. Luckily the towing service only cost us RM60 (US16) which is a good bargain, normally cost around RM200 (US54) when your car broke down on the road.

The lesson I learnt from here is, whenever your car part need to change, just change it, don�t try to prolong the renewal time in order to save a little bit. When it comes to major repair, it will cost you a bomb like this.

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