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Originally Posted by recycled sixtie
His mother takes in her 2004 Porsche 911 to an indy shop for maintenance. The boss/owner finds so much wrong with the car that he offers her $5000 cdn for it. She declines. She gets charged $500 for finding out what is wrong with it! She then takes it to her ex and asks him to fix it. Tacky treatment or what?
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I've seen this before. A woman with a nice car and the shop always finds a laundry list of stuff needing to be done? The list is probably a combination of stuff "that is showing (minimal) wear", "while we're in there" type stuff, and "recommendations" based on the mileage. The shop owner is betting that the owner both doesn't actually understand the work being done and has a strong desire to keep the car pristine.
Heck, I've had shops recommend to me changing parts like functioning brake calipers "just in case".
I've also seen shady shops charge for work, not actually do it, and then recommend that it needs to be done again in a subsequent visit.