If you want to keep from getting ripped off. Know your vehicle. I realize not every person is a mechanic. But you can keep track of the maintenance of your vehicle. Your owners manual will have manufacture recommendations for oil changes, coolant changes, transmission fluid changes. If your aware of the interval and you keep records of what maintenance you had done at what milage. You'll know if your vehicle needs it or not. If it needs it, and you decide you don't want to pay for it. Thats fine. But remember, its pay now, or pay a whole lot later when your tranny falls out.
I understand what your saying. The place I normally go to, increased their rates by 50%. So I went somewhere else. No lineup (the place I normally go to has at least a 2 car lineup per bay). They were a bit cheaper. But they tried to sell me on everything, not to mention poor recommendations. I decided to pay the extra from now on at my old place.
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