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[Dishevelled Den]

a few weeks ago i was around the back of beverley east yorks and i hit something in the road that punctured the rear tyre..i pulled into a layby gets the jack out etc... jacks the car up gets the wheel off...goes to the boot to get the spare and because somebody placed the lpg tank rather close to the spare(and we all know who that was don't we juev6 ) and it was really tight like a big lummax i pulled the whole car off the jack....so i'm stuck my breakdown is covered through my car insurance company who i'd just changed and not put the number in the phone yet...nobody in house at home as wife and 2 kids with me other 2 kids out somewhere....suddenly a ford ka pulls in behind me two young lads about 20 and a girl get out...and before you know it they.ve got there jack out and we've swapped the wheel...
 i did give them £20 to get some beers...it turned out they were army and raf but were at the driving school which is around there......
  a complete credit to young people and to the armed forces

...well said BBK

[Jimbob]

a few weeks ago i was around the back of beverley east yorks and i hit something in the road that punctured the rear tyre..i pulled into a layby gets the jack out etc... jacks the car up gets the wheel off...goes to the boot to get the spare and because somebody placed the lpg tank rather close to the spare(and we all know who that was don't we juev6 ) and it was really tight like a big lummax i pulled the whole car off the jack....so i'm stuck my breakdown is covered through my car insurance company who i'd just changed and not put the number in the phone yet...nobody in house at home as wife and 2 kids with me other 2 kids out somewhere....suddenly a ford ka pulls in behind me two young lads about 20 and a girl get out...and before you know it they.ve got there jack out and we've swapped the wheel...
 i did give them £20 to get some beers...it turned out they were army and raf but were at the driving school which is around there......
  a complete credit to young people and to the armed forces

now you know why you put a wheel under the side being jacked up 1st, car can't fall then 

[amigov6]

'Tis a shame we have to be wary of helping women. Many years ago i was in my then girlfriends Beetle when i stopped to help 2 girls in a broken down Moggy with a big puddle just behind it. I'm no mechanic but dried the dizzy cap, rotor arm, wiped round the condensor, left it a few mins, put it all back & she fired up no trouble.
     That was in 1981!!!!!!

[Lazydocker]

a few weeks ago i was around the back of beverley east yorks and i hit something in the road that punctured the rear tyre..i pulled into a layby gets the jack out etc... jacks the car up gets the wheel off...goes to the boot to get the spare and because somebody placed the lpg tank rather close to the spare(and we all know who that was don't we juev6 ) and it was really tight like a big lummax i pulled the whole car off the jack....so i'm stuck my breakdown is covered through my car insurance company who i'd just changed and not put the number in the phone yet...nobody in house at home as wife and 2 kids with me other 2 kids out somewhere....suddenly a ford ka pulls in behind me two young lads about 20 and a girl get out...and before you know it they.ve got there jack out and we've swapped the wheel...
 i did give them £20 to get some beers...it turned out they were army and raf but were at the driving school which is around there......
  a complete credit to young people and to the armed forces

now you know why you put a wheel under the side being jacked up 1st, car can't fall then 

Or plan a little better and get everything out to start with Then you just pull one off and slot the other straight on, bottom under the disc first, so it's always going to be supported

[jonnycool]

I got helped out once when my mini gave out about 300 miles from home. I hid and my girlfriend did the 'damsel in distress' bit. A group of young boys (in a mini) did an ingenious fix and the car got us all the way home! Couldn't switch the engine off though, don't know what they did!

[Grumpy]

Not a 'car help' story, but I managed a good samaritan
act this afternoon.

Mrs Grumpy and I were on one of our constitutional
strolls when we heard  crying and shouting from behind
a front garden hedge. We cautiously peered round
and saw a chap in his 70's lying on his back like a
stranded turtle. It transpires that he was paralysed
from the waist down and had fell out of his wheelchair
which was lying close by. He was quite hefty.

Two frail, old dears in their 70's, with walking sticks,
were flapping around, wailing, and trying, ineffectually,
to lift him up.

My wife, now in her 60's, has had glands removed post
cancer and can't take any weight on her right arm. I get
my bus pass next year and am on medication for
arterial vasculitus...so we're not exactly Batman and
Robin. 
We couldn't leave them like that, so Mrs Grumpy got
behind the wheelchair and stuck her feet behind the
wheels to fix it in firmly in position. I took a few deep
breaths, gripped him firmly under both armpits, and
hauled him upright as Mrs Grumpy then forcefully
pushed the wheelchair forwards against the back of
his knees and collapsed him backwards into the
wheelchair.

Result! Don't fancy doing that again in a hurry, though,
my own ticker was thumping away like a 'good'un'.
Thank god for the bloke who invented steroids!

[doog]

I always stop if someone has broken down  with the exception of women !! if i dont have my wife or one of my kids with me i wont stop as ive done it before and they always look scared at some big hairy arsed guy walking towards them.and dont seem to want my help

Doug

[Vamps]

Not a 'car help' story, but I managed a good samaritan
act this afternoon.

Mrs Grumpy and I were on one of our constitutional
strolls when we heard  crying and shouting from behind
a front garden hedge. We cautiously peered round
and saw a chap in his 70's lying on his back like a
stranded turtle. It transpires that he was paralysed
from the waist down and had fell out of his wheelchair
which was lying close by. He was quite hefty.

Two frail, old dears in their 70's, with walking sticks,
were flapping around, wailing, and trying, ineffectually,
to lift him up.

My wife, now in her 60's, has had glands removed post
cancer and can't take any weight on her right arm. I get
my bus pass next year and am on medication for
arterial vasculitus...so we're not exactly Batman and
Robin. 
We couldn't leave them like that, so Mrs Grumpy got
behind the wheelchair and stuck her feet behind the
wheels to fix it in firmly in position. I took a few deep
breaths, gripped him firmly under both armpits, and
hauled him upright as Mrs Grumpy then forcefully
pushed the wheelchair forwards against the back of
his knees and collapsed him backwards into the
wheelchair.

Result! Don't fancy doing that again in a hurry, though,
my own ticker was thumping away like a 'good'un'.
Thank god for the bloke who invented steroids!

Nice one..
That s my basic problem, quite happy to help, but limited because of my own health problems.  That said there is often something you can do even if is is simply a phone call........