Got a repair quote on my Audi gearbox and the price shocked me, is this normal?

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I need a reality check from people who have been through this, because I am still a bit shaken. My Audi A4 is a 2017 model with about 102,000 km, and for the past month the car has been slipping a little when I accelerate to join the highway. The engine revs up, but the speed takes a second to follow, like it is thinking about it. I finally took it to a workshop on Monday, and the man at the counter wrote down a number on a piece of paper and slid it across the desk without much explanation. It was a lot higher than I expected, and he only said “the unit needs full work.” That is all I got. My uncle says I should never accept the first quote from anyone, and that gearbox repair is where some places make their biggest profit. My colleague Haris says the opposite, that a proper job costs real money and the cheap ones come back to bite you after three months. Honestly I do not know which side I am on. Since then I have been reading about places that do Expert Audi gearbox repair in Musaffah, mainly to understand what a normal process looks like, and now I have a few simple questions. Is it normal to ask for a written breakdown with parts and labor listed separately? Should the workshop open the gearbox and show me what is actually damaged, or is that asking too much? I also wonder about getting a second opinion, because if the problem is just a software update or the oil, I would be paying for something I do not need. How do you tell the difference between a repair and a full replacement, and does a used gearbox ever make sense? What kind of warranty is fair after the work, and does it usually cover labor too? If you have been through a gearbox repair on a German car, please tell me roughly how long the car stayed in the workshop and whether it drove properly afterward. Real stories, including the bad ones, would help me a lot right now.

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