What you consider as 'service work' more often these days is bare minimum. Cars are pretty reliable and generally parts run until they break.
Preventative maintenance is an 'old skool' concept where we ran old cars and kept them going by fixing stuff cheap. A lot of us learned basic maintenance skills that way.
As an example I have one of the the daughters Picanto on the drive where it has been since Shielding lockdown - 63 plate, 50K miles. The windscreen has cracked in the heat we have been having which eminated from a chip right behind a parked wiper. But that's a separate issue.
I'm currently giving it the once over in the brake dept which I fully refurbished about 4 years ago. The discs are a bit corroded. They would probably clean up but I wanted nicely silver painted Pagid discs behind the recently refurbished wheels.
As all the caliper mounting brackets are off I file all the rusty crud out of the grooves which cause the pads to stick. Pistons have been extended, the dust covers pulled back where it can be seen that corrosion is starting slowly to eat backward under the covers. Get the rust off, treat with rust cure and assemble with the correct grease. This will both extend the life of those items and maintain efficiency.
Thing is that's home fettling for you not something a normal garage will undertake. I've spent a good day on this and is probably not what you would wish to pay someone for at garage rates.
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