My car is over 10 years old, and has 170K miles. But it runs great. The man started going through the list of things he had found. first addressing the oil leak, what it was and how much it was to fix it. All of that was reasonable. Approx $220 to get the parts and fix it! SOLD!
He then wanted to tell me about the other things he found. First he wanted to address my ABS and TCS lights. Apparently my Tone rings were damaged so they would not preform their function. It is not something that is needed for the brakes to function. I told him it was not something I could afford at the moment and I will have to skip that. He then moved on saying my spark plugs need replacing. I asked him how much that would run and he said they would want to do a tune up. The cost on that would be $800! I told him in no way could I afford that, however I would really like my spark plugs changed. He flat out said NO, the least they would do is replace the spark plugs and wires and quoted me $560. I told him never mind I would have to have a friend do it instead because that is crazy.
He then decided to tell me, "I am not sure if I mentioned this but since we ran a full diagnostic, you will be charged around $100 so that will bring your total to just over $300." To which I said fine.
Next, he decided to tell me my transmission fluid was burnt out and needed to be replaced. Which I thought was odd seeing as how that is something that normally lasts 75,000 miles and I just had it replaced last year. Next he said that my oil has not been changed in a long time. I replied, "Did you look at the oil?" he said "No, we just saw the sticker in the window and wanted to make you aware" Odd, that a full diagnostic would not include actually looking at the oil. I then let the gentleman know I had gotten my oil replaced 4 days ago, with Mobile 1 synthetic. So my oil was fine.