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[QUOTE="ConnEd, post: 3790159, member: 895"]
This seems to be a tactic with some dealers use now when you bring in an older car for maintenance.  They slam with a huge bill for all kinds of work.  On my wife's BMW, they claimed it needed $5100 worth of work.  The car ws worth about $6k.  The idea is to get you thinking about a new car so they can sell/lease you something new.  Or, if you just do the repairs, they make money on the work.  We took the car to a local shop we trust.  They told us most of the items on the dealer's list didn't need to be done.  So, we had them do about $400 worth of work and sold the car ourselves.  It did still need about $1k more work (leaking valve cover seal/gasket), but it didn't affect the sale price that much.

I was buying a new car at one point and the salesman was moaning that they make nothing on the car sales (yeah, sure) and that the shop makes all of the money for the dealership.  It made me wonder if I was buying a maintenance headache.
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