Ok so the tranny is leaking "up front" and somewhere else.

Homies said they need to pull the tranny off to get to the seal and fix it. They want $1k.

They say they dont need to tear it open all the way however.

So my question is...what to do now....if they're gonna pull it down to fix that, should there be some preventive maintenance to be done on the tranny?

And 1k for it..ain't that a bit much?

Car be '99 C280 w/ some 80k miles.