Holden Astra 2004: Expensive maintenance costs

YOUR Astra is barely two years old and has less than 30,000km on the clock, so I'd be reluctant to sell it just yet. You've suffered through the period of highest depreciation, so you'd be throwing money away if you were to sell it now. I don't believe the Astra is any more expensive to service than its rivals and, apart from the lower service interval for the cam timing belt, it doesn't have major problems that might warrant getting out of it.