Took my 2006 Prius to have it's Trans-axle fluid r...

Took my 2006 Prius to have it's Trans-axle fluid replaced. It is 4 Quarts and should only take 15 minutes to perform.

1 hour later I get a report that My water pump, belt and spark-plugs are bad. I declined the service. another hour later my Prius was ready to go. I took a look at the water-pump, it was in perfect condition. The mechanic made a poor judgement call, as I spilled Orange Windshield fluid the day before the service. He thought the pump was leaking, when it wasn't.

The Spark-plugs I replaced myself, as well as the belt.

I took the car back last Saturday for both Cooling systems to have a drain and fill. They wanted $200 to charge me 2 hours labor for 1 hours work. Since the Prius has two separate systems Toyota feels that they need to charge double. I walked away from the service and performed it myself for $20 worth of 50/50 Long Life coolant. Took less than one hour to do both systems.

Point is do it yourself!