how could you honestly refuse to help anyone especialy a woman driver on her own?i'd offer to phone for anyone as i would like the same done for me..come on lads eh!!!i thought us fiat owners were better than the rest....
Would you help a broken down motorist?
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Would you help a broken down motorist?
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surprised with the sei not starting after puddle
mine did
just not very well
mine did
just not very well
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I don't drive yet, however when I do I will not help a broken down motorist. Why? I don't know much about cars and besides it could be a set up. I personally won't be putting myself at risk or having my car (when I get one) stolen. I will try and help with crashes, that's something I would do but I wouldn't be stopping otherwise..
To many idiotic people these days, you try and do a nice thing and you'll be the one paying no doubt..
Not me..
To many idiotic people these days, you try and do a nice thing and you'll be the one paying no doubt..
Not me..
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i would have to say yes as i know how it feels when ur stuck broken down some where
Nah but it don't matter when face is in the pillow
LOL!!!
they all scream the same.I think i would stop, especially for another fiat owner, and especially if its a female of a certain attractive sort of nature lol.
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lee89
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Mk1 punto broken down on hard shoulder of m6 stoped to offer assistance, hose clip had rotted and heater hose come off, found hose clip in my car so put hose back on and filled up with water i always carry with me and off they went, even got given a tenner. Happy days
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Today you never know if they are really broken down or just waiting for you to stop and take away your car...so i'd stay in my car and continue the trip. Hope he uses his cell phone and call for help if he really needs it...
Depends on the situation as people have being saying - depends who and what has broken down. When my clio overheated in summer 2008 a Woman van driver stopped (She wasn't bad either) and gave me some water and a push. - Still missed football I was trying to get to tho. - The punto hasn't had any bad luck yet (touch wood![only 6 weeks before my new car!])
I've stopped to help two people (one man and one woman) change wheels when they had punctures. And stopped to help a couple in an overheated Punto and another couple in a Brava with the exhaust fallen off. Though I have driven past countless other cars. I think I'm too nice No-one stopped to help me when I had a blowout on the M6 or when I had flat batteries When someone bought the slightly-pink-chink and took it home, the petrol light came on and they panicked and pulled onto the hard shoulder of the M6 - one of my mates knew it was my car and stopped to help thinking it was me. To find out it was a fella
No-one stopped to help me when I had a blowout on the M6 or when I had flat batteries When someone bought the slightly-pink-chink and took it home, the petrol light came on and they panicked and pulled onto the hard shoulder of the M6 - one of my mates knew it was my car and stopped to help thinking it was me. To find out it was a fella - Joined
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ive nipped to the petrol station after stopping for a broken down sei. they dropped me a tenner without me knowing, left it on the passanger seat. the petrol station was about 3 miles away. suppose we both won aye.
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Lol I like the "especially a woman" bit, when my brava finaly died (it is completely "FooBar"the cam shaft has gone and it took a few valves with it!)the other week,I had a colleague in the car(as we car share,he really was not impressed but hey ho!), we were there for nearly an hour and a half before the recovery truck arrived and in that time only one motorist stopped,yet a couple of weeks before that I broke down on my own and a total of 9 people stopped in less than 45 minutes.(all men may I add!)
I have stopped to help stranded motorists on two occasions,I know my way round some cars and pride myself in not being a namby pamby girl that can't fix basic things! once in the pissing rain on the m6 I stopped to help a young family in a corsa, the headgasket had gone(the RAC man confirmed this with me I was well chuffed I got the right diagnosis) so i took the mum and two little boys up to the services rather than having them sat at the side of the road.I got lunch and £20 for my troubles.
The other time was on the a49,the car actually had 3 lads in it and a female driver but I only saw the girl when i decided to pull over, they were in a bravo(I had my brava at the time) and the car had just "cut out", it turns out the fuel injector fuse had gone(the same thing happened on mine a few weeks before, so I had some spare fuses!)so even thought the car would start it would cut out quite quickly after starting, until the fuel already pumped ran out copletely.It took about 10 minutes to suss the problem and we had just got the car up and running when the girls dad arrived.
If I can help people, I will, but i would never put myself in danger to help someone.
I like to think that if i do a good deed for someone then when I am in need of help someone will return that good deed(the same rule applies to letting people out of junctions!)
If I ever see anyone needing help I'd probably stop depending where it is. In regards to if there a nutter or not, I normally where my steel toe-caps and keep some sort of wrench behind my chair so if I was attacked I'd just go nuts back and drive away
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If I ever see anyone needing help I'd probably stop depending where it is. In regards to if there a nutter or not, I normally where my steel toe-caps and keep some sort of wrench behind my chair so if I was attacked I'd just go nuts back and drive away
So you carry and offensive weapon in your car?
Nah the wrench is there for the car on the most part, I doubt it would ever happen but the area I live in I wouldn't be too sure about that, so it's nice to know it's there
Back on topic though, I work at a supermarket on the customer service desk, and sometimes we get people coming in who's car has broken down in the car park. I normally ask them to explain and see if I can help them out before we call the RAC (Anyone who breaks down in a Tesco car park is automatically covered for recovery by the RAC) I have managed to help once or twice
Back on topic though, I work at a supermarket on the customer service desk, and sometimes we get people coming in who's car has broken down in the car park. I normally ask them to explain and see if I can help them out before we call the RAC (Anyone who breaks down in a Tesco car park is automatically covered for recovery by the RAC
) I have managed to help once or twice 
