would you stop ???

[clean32]

If you spotted a Land rover on the side of the road, bonnet up. Would you stop?

I would and do, even helped a Peroxide blond locate the spear wheel in a D3 ( I didn’t know where it was, read the hand book)

Well today 3 white D3 2 silver D2 and 1 D1 didn’t. Disco owners Take note.

[Disco Steve]

I'll stop for most cars with the bonnet up. regardless of make.

[dullbird]

not everyone that drives a disco is a member of the land rover society a lot of people seem to forget that they are sometimes a car of choice for city people along with range rovers......

So just because they choose to drive that car doesn't mean that automatically have to pull over for someone to help just because they drive the same model......

half of them probably have no idea what sort of following their car has, they just brought it because its seen as a luxury item, or its comfy or it tows their very big boat well! maybe even there horses.

If someone pulls over that really nice regardless of the model.......But it shouldn't be expected IMHO

[Quiggers]

One may consider the peroxide blonde had something to do with this.....:D

[rangieman]

Id stop but then again im a S,N,A,G Defender driver ,Oh i thought all defender driver.s were

[Blknight.aus]

For me it comes down to time and location

generally I'll stop for anyone if any of the following apply


they are in a dangerous position and I am equiped to get them to a safer place or make the situation safer for them
they are stuck on some back track and there is very little other traffic
there is no hope of reliable communications
there is an accident/injury and the situation is not already in hand


If I have time up my sleeve and Im going in the same direction I stop for most people unless the situation appears to be under control which I asses by giving them the thumbs up or the ok hand sign.

If Im low on time I curtail it to people who are in obvious distress, which includes the elderly, people with very young kids/ babies and hot blondes with short skirts and low cut tops. Landie drivers get the thumbs up/Ok hand signal and I still slow down enough so that if someone needs help they can signal me and then I'll stop..

I generally do not stop for our darker bretheren due to a nasty experience in the NT nor do I stop for people who deserve to be removed from the gene pool unless one of the points in the list applies.

[Ricey]

I've had two instances of this kind in the last fortnight.
1) A D2 was stranded on Pennant Hills rd with what turned out to be a bung fuel pump. One bloke in a D2 had already stopped, I pulled up as well since I had tools etc if necessary around the corner at home - oh, I was driving my Hiace at the time :o
2) D1 Disco broken down at the start of the M4 at Strathfield, I couldn't stop safely without causing mayhem & just a shocking spot with everyone powering up - he was on an onramp island on the left & I was on the RH lane.

I've always known it to be so to stop & help - it's part of our culture.

[BMKal]

For me it comes down to time and location

generally I'll stop for anyone if any of the following apply


they are in a dangerous position and I am equiped to get them to a safer place or make the situation safer for them
they are stuck on some back track and there is very little other traffic
there is no hope of reliable communications
there is an accident/injury and the situation is not already in hand


If I have time up my sleeve and Im going in the same direction I stop for most people unless the situation appears to be under control which I asses by giving them the thumbs up or the ok hand sign.

If Im low on time I curtail it to people who are in obvious distress, which includes the elderly, people with very young kids/ babies and hot blondes with short skirts and low cut tops. Landie drivers get the thumbs up/Ok hand signal and I still slow down enough so that if someone needs help they can signal me and then I'll stop..

I generally do not stop for our darker bretheren due to a nasty experience in the NT nor do I stop for people who deserve to be removed from the gene pool unless one of the points in the list applies.

That about sums it up pretty well for me too, but must admit that I'm probably more likely to stop for a Landrover in circumstances where I might not so readily stop for another brand.

[dullbird]

we stopped for everyone that we saw on our trip up north........especially when it was remote

but generally in day to day driving.....it depends on the situation like dave said above....for everything else theres the NRMA

[fatcat]

id stop for another defender forshore, and any car if they waved me down if i felt no thret to my family

but, it sucks when the defenders dont wave. But the big waves back make up for the other slackers. i know i miss some even, my 2 year son waves in his baby chair. cheers all

P.S

[easo]

I stop for most people, haven't stoped for any LRs yet.

[zulu Delta 534]

I tend to assess the driver, rather than the brand of car they drive.
I would generally slow down, query their position (eg thumb up/ hand query), make a fairly hurried assessment of situation, position, conditions etc then act from there.
Generally in town I stop and offer to ring the RACQ if they dont have a phone and thats about it whereas out in the country life is a complete different ballgame.
Regards
Glen

[DeeJay]

I always do if I can. Compulsory for a Landie...
I failed to proceed once one night ( Its OK I was driving a Nissan Patrol) and dozens of cars passed me while I was stooging around under the bonnet. It was off a main road in Port Melbourne. A car stopped ahead of me some distance but I paid little attention then I heard a guy asked if he could be of any help.
He was in a wheelchair :o.
By then I was struggling to see & my torch had expired - it was really dark- and he lent me a good torch which was just what I needed.
It was the smallest of gestures but I still remember the kindness 30 years on.

[clean32]

Well it was my own fault, I did some thing stupid followed by some thing silly all for the sake of a spanner.
Why didn’t I have a spanner? I have just unloaded the county completely, the only things I haven’t removed is the first aid kit. She will be doing the rounds of various workshops over the next 2 weeks.

Now bearing in mind we have only had the county for a couple of months 6000KLM, to date we have snatched 2 X Trails, 1 rav 4, and a Toyota. All in the same place. to be honest we would have needed snatching if i didn’t get nervy, its didn’t feel correct under the wheels.
We always stop, defiantly stop when out of the city regardless of creed or first impressions, not that I would recommend that for everyone, but we have some history and skills along with PPE that may be unusual in the LR community

[D110V8D]

I stopped to help a Rangie P38 on Sunday morning......hose had popped off the rad. Coolant everywhere.
Turns out the owner was a Land Rover man, although the P38 is "the missus car" and he said "thanks I'll take it straight home and get the Pootrol":eek:

Sorry I stopped........:D:D

[Panda]

We always stop if someone's broken down, just to make sure they're okay. From past experience, there's nothing worse than breaking down & being in a fix. It's happened to me innumerous times in the past & the number of people who just drive by is quite alarming.

[McDisco]

Yeah I would stop...dont know how much help I would be though! :D:D

Angus

[George130]

Normally I stop.
I have towed various makes, snatched cars 4bys and a truck. I have even stopped to put out a small grass fire that everyone was ignoring.

[Forest]

Definately depends on the situation. SWMBO has made me promise not to stop when I have the young kids in the car as I would always stop regardless, hitchhikers and the lot. In todays society she may have a point. When I have the kids, I half drop the window and have a conversation to ascertain how I can help. I won't get out of the car, but will offer to call, or whatever is helpful. By myself, I love to get out and have a chat!!!(presuming they look half human of course!) lots of people met that way.

Could not give a stuff what they are driving. People are people. Cars do not make a person.:wasntme:

[Hymie]

Heck yes!!!
I once stopped for a Defender I saw with its bonnet up, on Mt Baw Baw.
It was a lovely Blue 90 inch 200 Tdi Defender.
The driver later contacted me and asked if I wanted to but it as he was leaving Australia.
How come I never have money when these opportunities come along????

[mud13s]

I generally stop if it's safe to, Landy or not.

Recently stopped to help a Rangie

[blitz]

I almost always stop - especially the further from town. Dunno if any of you can remembe the mad german bugger who killed a heap of people across the top of Australia - finally killed by the cops in west oz?

while this was going on I stopped to help a couple the other side of the vic river, poor buggers were so terrified they pulled a shot gun on me. was funny even with the gun there, sort of started telling them that germans cant imitate australian slang they were very relieved, and I didnt get ded

oh and got them going

blythe

[PaulP38a]

Yep, seems that I am like most others here. I stop when I can and if I might be able to help. Just seems to be the decent thing to do, especially if the broken down vehicle is another LR.

I drive a P38A Rangie, I wave to other LR drivers, and I'll lend assistance to broken down vehicles. While that may seem out of character for the stereotypical Rangie driver, it seems to be pretty normal for Rangie drivers on this forum. Please don't tar us all with the same brush :)

If you're driving around Canberra or Queanbeyan and spot a dark blue P38A that has black steel bars at each end, 33" tyres and sits a bit taller than most Rangies, give us a wave. :p

Cheers, Paul.

[rovercare]

I stop for everyone generally:D

I picked up a hitch hiker the other day, drove him 70kays out of my way:eek:, he bought me a 6 pack of scotch and I had alot on my mind and time to waste:(

Makes for some great stories, I can assure you;)

With little tackers in the car, its a little different:)

[Bundalene]

We aways stop for a Landrover.....it's the right thing to do:p

When we are on our way up North, we stop for anyone who looks like they are in trouble......

Hope they would do the same for us:D

[Jitterbug]

I never used to stop (mainly because I didnt think i would be much use) but since overlanding from the UK to Mongolia and round the middle east in my 300tdi commercial disco and breaking down myself a couple of times, most notably snapping my front axle in Siberian Russia and having random passers by stop to help, I have made an effort to stop and help whenever i can.

After that I pulled out a guy who managed to reverse his car in the ditch, jump started a couple of others and even towed 4 guys about 100km acoross mongolian dirt tracks to the nearest town in their '84 nissan micra they had driven there from the UK! (I have never seen people look more relieved and supprised to see a British Land Rover appear on the horrizon in the middle of Mongolia!)

A warning to anyone if they are in the middle east, people kindly stop and offer to help (despite no common language), then after they have gotten in the way and been no help at all, demand some money as payment for the 'help'!
We even had people wave us down ask where we were going, let us know we were going the right way (which we already knew) then demand money for the service! It all adds to the fun!

[Dmmos]

If Im low on time I curtail it to people who are in obvious distress, which includes the elderly, people with very young kids/ babies and hot blondes with short skirts and low cut tops.

Amen brother.


I generally do not stop for our darker bretheren due to a nasty experience in the NT nor do I stop for people who deserve to be removed from the gene pool unless one of the points in the list applies

:Rolling:

[rick130]

I stop for everyone generally:D



Makes for some great stories, I can assure you;)

<snip>

ditto.

On the way back from Sydney last month a new Tarago was stopped, obviously a flat tyre.
A little flash of the headlights and I swung around behind them, with SWMBO asking why I was stopping.

Their spare was dead flat, it was a hire car and it was roughly 20km to the next town.
I had a bottle of nitrogen, tyre adapter, etc on board :D


Bloody nice indigenous family from Moree on their way to Newy was very happy someone stopped to give them a hand, and what odds that someone had exactly what they needed to get going quickly.

[Blknight.aus]

generally if your driving a landrover and are inclined to stop youd have just about enough gear to rebuild the car on the side of the road, let alone inflate a flat tyre.....








































or is that just me?

[abaddonxi]

Just slightly ot.

We were driving up to the Mountains Monday night last week and had to pull over in a breakdown bay on the M4 to feed the baby.

Bang.

Car coming the other direction off the road to the left, into the steel car-slide fencing and up into the trees.

I reckon I was on the roadside emergency phone in under thirty seconds.

And then I couldn't think of anything I could do. Six lanes of 100kmh traffic with a divider in the middle and the entire family in the car. Four or five cars pulled up immediately. Several of those drivers looked lucky not to get hit.

half a dozen police cars, plus fire and ambulance arrived by the time the baby was fed.

Felt bad about it all night. Wished I could have done more, but couldn't see what.

:(

Simon

[lokka]

Stoped the other day myself and the dobbos coming back over copeland tops from our stay out in the state forrest top of copeland range 2 poms in a car bonnet up loaded trailer asked what was up low on oil lucky for them i carry plenty sold them the fresh 4L bottle i had spare in the back for what it cost me from super cheap they were verry greatfull and the pommy lass siad to me maby we shouldent be so daft :D:D:D

[rick130]

generally if your driving a landrover and are inclined to stop youd have just about enough gear to rebuild the car on the side of the road, let alone inflate a flat tyre.....


or is that just me?

absolutely true Dave, and no it isn't just you, but how many normal drivers carry all that gear, all the time.......:D

[rick130]

<snip>
Felt bad about it all night. Wished I could have done more, but couldn't see what.

:(

Simon

That'd be a hell of a risk trying to cross :eek:

[JohnE]

not everyone that drives a disco is a member of the land rover society a lot of people seem to forget that they are sometimes a car of choice for city people along with range rovers......

So just because they choose to drive that car doesn't mean that automatically have to pull over for someone to help just because they drive the same model......

half of them probably have no idea what sort of following their car has, they just brought it because its seen as a luxury item, or its comfy or it tows their very big boat well! maybe even there horses.

If someone pulls over that really nice regardless of the model.......But it shouldn't be expected IMHO



very well said,

in this day an age not everyone wants to 'get involved' just in case the person stopped is 'bad'.


john

[weeds]

on mon maybe tues this week a D1 had his bonnet up on the gateway, i would have considered stopping but it was peak hour and i had entered the freeway and crossed to the middle lane.....no way i could have stopped

[ATH]

I have done on several occassions, once was a young lady in deep distress in a shopping centre park, because her old Holden wouldn't start. Up with the bonnet, cleaned the terminals, nearly started on the key but then did with a mighty push....... and off she roared without a backward glance only to stop 20 metres away to pick up her boyfriend who was hiding amongst the parked cars!:o
Helped an aboriginal (bit boozed) on the Great Northern east of Fitzroy when his motor conked out. Hot day, car was full of kids and a couple of Mums so we gave them an esky of orange juice for drinks.
The terminals on this car were loose so we cleaned and tightened them and gave a jump start and off him and the family went and we went back to camp.
A couple of months later I was at a gymkhana in Fitzroy (or Derby) and this same bloke came up and offered me a beer or two in thanks. He'd recognised me and made sure he thanked us and invited us along to their station up the road.
I usually stop if I think I can help and not get in anyones way, but always check out who needs the assistance first.
I know I appreciated it when a couple of young blokes stopped when I split a sidewall once and don't mind giving assistance to others.
Happy motoring.
Alan.

[Michael2]

I'd stop for most people, especially Land Rovers.

However I was broken down in a 1960 SII once (# axle) and another series Landy drove past and the guys not only didn't stop, but laughed.

I didn't need their help, and I was soon on my way, but nevertheless I think it was bad form.

[p38arover]

We always stop, defiantly stop when out of the city

Are you definitely defiant?