Life with a 9 year old Toyota Fortuner: 1.10L km service update

The itch to upgrade to one of the newer Toyotas keeps coming to bite me, can’t decide exactly what to do since they do not make cars likes these any longer!

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Sent my car for its 110k km service day before yesterday. Sent it urgently and before the service due date, because my bootlid lock had stopped working. Even after locking the car, the boot would still remain open, and since the bootlid was not closing it would open over almost every speedbreaker.

The bootlid lock was checked and even after opening it and trying to fix it, it didn’t work out. The replacement part (Part No: A-69350-0K280) was ordered from Bangalore since it was not in stock with any ASC in Mumbai. The part cost is ₹12.7k including taxes which was more expensive than my servicing cost of ₹9k (which includes WA, WB and interior washing as well). For an almost 10 year old car (9 years and 2 months to be precise), service cost at <₹10k is something only a Toyota can do.

This is the part in question that had failed:

With my friend’s (also a BHPian) 2010 Grey Fortuner:

The itch to upgrade to one of the newer Toyotas keeps coming to bite me, can’t decide exactly what to do since they do not make cars likes these any longer! The DPF system and filling AdBlue after every few thousand kilometres (short interval in the Fortuner compared to example Diesel Mahindras) scares me as well. The manual gearbox continues to be fun, and the clutch is still stock after driving in Mumbai traffic almost regularly. Although sometimes an Automatic is really missed in Mumbai’s peak traffic times.

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