Replacing two cooling fans and starter issues

my 2008 Honda element has about 190,000 miles on it.
It’s a basin and it’s been great for us. We’ve had a new
starter put on it recently new tires new brakes. My son
drives the car now and recently it overheated we took it to
the dealership and they indicated that we have to replace
two cooling fans for $1100 ??   more recently his car is
having starting issues but I think it’s an old battery which
I’m going to verify this evening. Is it worth it to fix his car. I
have a friend that I’ll do the work for 800 instead of 1100 ?