Your neighbor is a fool. The wife of a lifelong friend of mine died about 7 or 8 years ago while she was under her 65 Thunderbird doing some maintenance. She had some heavy duty ramps but one gave way and dropped the car on her; killing her almost instantly.
As for why my friend wasn’t doing the work; he’s a paraplegic in a wheelchair. They had been married almost 30 years. Sad outcome.