Ive just changed my Nationality to Polish

I cant believe no one stopped , well done to Rikki for helping out!

Glad it was sorted!

sausage fingers wrote:I stopped twice today on the way back and pulled a polish painter 'n' decorator off on the hard shoulder on the way to Brighton on friday
Neil

Big thanks to Mr fingers of sausage for pulling me to safty yesterday. my coil had gone! Got a second hand one from a friend of the RAC man named John. it got me home without a hickup.

cheers for stopping to see if i was ok neil on the m25 the only person who stopped in over 3 hours dont blame any one its not a nice bit road
cheers dude
thanks to the guy who informed me the wheel had locked up on caravan as well

I know Rikki and he is a top bloke well done and shame to those who didn`t stop.

a few years ago i had to take my mothers minor to a garage for weldng. id
come off the M25 and the top hose went. stranded by the side of the road and would you believe that 2 minors went past, but did they stop...no"
can`t imagine what it must feel like, after going to the breeze and loads of busses going by, so well done that man

lucky wrote:

Mike1973 wrote:Not much of a defense, but when we went past you someone else was already stopped behind you (not Rikki though?) and it did look all in hand...

Tis true, that another totally non VW related driver did stop, to see if he could help but his opening line was " Hi mate, i know nothing about cars but......."! and he left in a couple of minutes.

I'm thinking we might be getting our wires crossed here Lucky... The split we saw was not long from Jc 9 of the M25, and when we passed there was another bus pulled in behind, a Baywindow I think, and things looked under control... we figured as another VW had stopped things were hopefully OK... Was this you? We might have passed a totally different broken down Split...

..well...i really should write my own thread , but i'll leech onto here if that's ok..

..not 20 mins after YOUR breakdown, Rikki rescued me !

..(story)..haven't driven the van for a while , so a couple of weeks ago i 'tuned' the emgine , retimed iit & fitted a new idle jet.
I had a catastrophic Friday, which i won't bore you with, but suffice to say , when i got out on the road at last, in the driving rain, i had to cane it!The bus didn't seem to be running right, but i had to press on apace..i had put £35 of gas in at home( already had 10lits)..so when, after @ 80 miles it coughed & spluttered to a halt just after the junc of the M25/M23 i was more than a little surprised- READ FUMING MAD!! ...
so i stood at the side of the M23 in the rain muttering obscenities to myself & watching the cars, inc 2 Bays, drive past- then a Bay pulled up - lovely guy, very helpful ( not a Scooby what his name was, now, tho ) who didn't have any fuel, so eventually had to go on his way. I decided to Ring THE MIGHTY SAUSAGE FINGERS & ask if he knew of anyone passing & he told me Rikki should be in the vicinity...
A brief call later & Iron man Rikki rolls up with a cheery handshake & a can of gas ..
Not happy with that, he then escorts me to Pease Pottage for safety & then down to Brighton , for the fun of a cruise!
WHAT A STAR!!
..ps..sorted the idle jet prob Sun morn..
pps..as i filled up with Rikkis can , at the side of the M23, the only Police vehicle i saw all night reversed up to investigate!!

Mike1973 wrote:

lucky wrote:

Mike1973 wrote:The split we saw was not long from Jc 9 of the M25, and when we passed there was another bus pulled in behind, a Baywindow

Mike i was never out to cast blame on anyone but merely to praise Rikki.
There could be circumstances where i would not stop, but thankfully this has never been the case so far although i freely admit that there have been people that i have been unable to help but i did try.
If like you i saw a bus had stopped and they looked ok, then knowing i had my daughter and wife onboard, i too would have considered not stopping, it's a decision made on the spot like you said before.
In this case it was not me that you saw, so relax, i was literally 3-4 miles from hook, just before the big pub on the left, which indecently reminds me that after Rikki had helped us into the lay-by next to the pub and then had gone on his way, 2 more buses pulled into the pub and went for dinner

JD Westy wrote:As my Mrs commented last night " you wouldnt think he was 50 "

NO! He must have had a BIG paper round when he was younger!!!

Nice one for helping out.