re: Are these reasonable prices for Toyota RAV4 repairs?

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. Replace trasmission fluid (dirty) = $280

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Can I rebuild it after they do that?

are they pads and rotors on the rear? or shoes and drums? If shoes/drums, have someone do it; all those springs are a pain in the arse. If pads, they are very easy, but at least buy the Toyota pads (prob under $100) as the quality is much better than auto zone and the other cheapy places. You could even remove your rotors and bring it to a machine shop or local mechanic and they'll turn em for ya for prob about $20 cash.
Brake fluid does prob need to be changed and these dealerships have a machine that sucks it all out and then cycles a cleaner through and then adds the new fluid. You could bleed it out yourself and get most of it if you wanted too. Kinda messy. Worst case scenario, the brake fluid completely breaks down (but that's prob 200k in or so)
Trans Fluid I don't think is sealed on the '07 RAV4 but it does at least take Type IV Fluid, so the fluid itself is a little bit more expensive. pop your hood with the car running and find the dipstick (black top) and take a look at the fluid yourself and make sure it isn't black or has metal flakes all in it. at 60k it shouldn't and you prob would be wise to get that changed. You could price it at a local shop, but the reason it's $280 at the dealer is cuz they're using 14qts of fluid and the fluid isn't cheap. hope this helps and good luck