[HobieMarty]

So, about two years ago my Dad gave me a 2000 Lexus RX300 and I have been using it as my daily driver for over a year now, that is up until a couple of weeks ago. I left for work one day and the engine had a rattle and was misfiring and just didn't have any power so I took it back home and parked it, had only gone about a mile. Towed the vehicle to a shop last week and they took a look at it and said it needed an engine replacement and would be around $4100.00 to fix it. Wow, this vehicle isn't worth that much money and the shop told me that they may be interested in buying the vehicle as I told them I wasn't going to fix it. So, red flag goes up, shop wants to buy my Lexus if I don't want to fix it, I figure they would throw an engine in there for way less money than what they quoted me and flip the vehicle for a nice profit.
I have a coworker that has a shop and works on vehicles and he told me he could do the job and quoted me a price about 2k under what the other shop said. At this price, the vehicle is worth fixing so, we've made arrangements for him to pick up the Lexus and take it to his shop for assessment and go from there.
So, what do you guys think about a shop quoting a super high price and then offering to purchase a vehicle when the owner states that they would not repair the vehicle? Is this a common practice?

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