Admittedly, their is some masochism there, maybe due to some unresolved childhood trauma. But it's also about taking something that once had good value but is

Admittedly, their is some masochism there, maybe due to some unresolved childhood trauma. But it's also about taking something that once had good value but is now old and decrepit and deciding to live with it as it is for what's left of it. The challenge is not fixing it but rather changing ones perception, expectations and behaviours around it, making it a proxy for the real world and also for your own body which will let you down eventually. You could call it a form of stoicism? It's about a car but it could be about a blender or software with which you have a love/hate relationship and yet decided to keep using as a test of your own emotional, physical and mental resilience.