Actually really I am damn curious how much does normal maintenance cost look like?
Always hear that 'wah BMW expensive to maintain' but I also hear the other way around.

Really would appreciate some more clarity and honesty on maintenance cost

This is service centre or not?.

Btw, cheap or not car depends on how people maintain it. Several types of how people maintain their cars:
1) send at service centre and service all
2) send at service centre and service partial.reject most item
3) service at specialist workshop and use workshop parts
4) service at specialist workshop and bring parts
5) service at bawah bawah pokok workshop and use workshop parts
6) service at bawah pokok and bring parts
7) repair sendiri

Parts also got so much variance. From cheapest to most expensive. Original parts among the most expensive parts for cars.

Btw, if compare service centre to service centre, indeed conti much more expensive. but if compare outside workshop, so much variance aspect involve. not really fair to compare tbh.