I've had my Focus serviced and M.O.T'd at my local Ford main dealer today, as I have done every year i've owned it

9 year/112,500 mile service - £250.00
M.O.T Test - £ 54.85

Drops it off at 8am this morning, gets a call of them at 10:30am

"hello sir, just want to let you know that the car has been serviced..blah blah.....the technician hasn't found anything untoward that may lead to MOT failure, your car will be MOT'd early this afternoon and should sail straight through, I would say you car will be ready for collection about 4pm ish"

All well and good I think.......

"however, the service technician has let me know of a few advisories that I have to make you aware of"

Here we go, I say to myself........

"Firstly, your brake fluid could do with being changed, was done two years ago, according to our records, and that'll be £48.00 to do"

"Leading on from there, your air-conditioning isn't cooling to the right temperature and could do with a re-gas/top up and that'll be £37.50 to do"

"leading on from there, your anti-freeze could do with being changed"

"leading on from that, your car is pulling ever so slightly to the left and the tracking is ever so slightly out, what I'm prepared to do if you have the brake fluid and air-con regas done is top up your antifreeze for free and charge you half price for doing the tracking, tracking therefore will be £17"

To be honest I havn't noticed the car pulling to one side (but no doubt the amount of pot holes and speed humps we all have to traverse these days it wouldn't be ususual to be thrown out) and I check my car's fluid levels and tyre pressures every week, without fail and I knew the air-con could of done with a re-gas. So I said, go ahead then, you do all those additional jobs for me then and i'll see you about 4ish.

"great", says the customer service chap "we'll get right on to it", "i'll also have a word with my manager and see if we can knock a bit more off for you, as you are a regular customer"
(I am I'm in there every 6 months - have interim oil/filter change between services)
Result, thinks I!. I prefer to use the main dealer for sevicing as I like to get a main dealer stamp in my service books.

Then came the killer.....

"just one last thing, the service tecnician thinks that your clutch is starting to slip and the biting point is faily high"
"we can drop a new clutch in for you and that'll be £540"

£540!

Needless to say, I declined their very kind offer of a new clutch today I've given them £379.99 of my hard earned today and thats enough at the moment (got a bigger discount in the end for the work done as well!)

The car has only done 52386 miles from new in 9 years and I only do between 4K - 6K per year. I look after it to anal car care levels lol (as I imagine most of you fellow Ford nuts on here look after your cars).
I've never noticed the clutch slipping at all. OK, the biting point is getting fairly high, but there is certainly plenty of life left in it for my usage......
I thinks to myself, someone is trying to take the mickey here and I'm not falling for it!

But here's the thing, how much would you expect to pay for a replacement clutch from a reputable independent trustworthy garage/mechanic, that you trust using genuine original Ford parts?

If I can stick it out for another 4-5 months or so, I'd probably have it done, but not at the main dealer price!. jeez!

What would you guy's deem a 'reasonable' price and how long do you reckon a clutch change would take?.