Well - yes. Indeed. We know each other since many, often for more than twenty years and our cars, too. We have helped each other to keep them running, so there's nothing spectacular any more at all. So the sociability among friends is more important.

Plus the fact, that many of our spouses -at least all- really hate it, when we are all standing around open bonnets and are talking about the bits inside.

Something, which is sometimes not even really helpful

Here you see 250 years of K 70-experience (really, I've just counted it again)

https://imageshack.com/i/c9img1960xj

at one place - and the problem of the kansasbeige K 70 in the middle could not be solved
There was even a large disagreement about the reason of the problem in general.