I may be lucky, I drive a mid 90's gm car I got from an old lady with 9,000 miles for a very low price. I do all the brake work myself and I can generally do my front axle for example for about 60.00. That includes installing brand new rotors. Never had a problem. Done it twice now on that car. I've never heard of 450 per axle. That is definately a rip off. Gonna crawl under the car this weekend and replace muffler and middle pipe. Takes some work to cut out but will save about 200.00 + instead of going to one of those "places" that does that. I've found those auto parts stores are pretty good with the warranties. I have a muffler I have replaced about 4 times now with free ones and I have gotten free brake pads too. Got that care up to 200,000 with buying 1 muffler. There are some rip offs out there, but it pays to shop around.