Thread: What was he thinking?

it's only a Prado, who gives a ....

...............tasi

HAHAHAHAHA

Dorko

did no one have a winch?

he is an idot for putting himself in that situation......but If I had a winch or could of joined some long straps I would of pulled him out.

You learn by your mistakes, I always think treat others how you would like to be treated

Only a prado but he was stuck as we all have been. Maybe he was stupid for driving there or maybe it was inexperience. I don't leave anybody stuck if i can help it. Could you have joined a few snatch straps together to help him out???. I have had to walk out of a few places in my learning curve to get help and have been refused, Fair enough maybe i should have known better but i didn't. I just think the four wheel drive community should stick together.
My thoughts only and am not meaning to have a shot at you i am sure you had your reasons(He may of been a real ******).

Yeh, don't get me wrong, we tried to help.... We stayed there for 2 hours. But we didnt really want to snatch him, because of the position and angle of his prado. It was so close to rolling over. I wasnt going to have my car damaged in the attempt to save his. It would of pulled my car down with him. And the guy was a bit of a ******... he didnt want to admit he stuffed up and he didnt want to jump back in the car to reverse out, just incase it rolled. He wanted to snatch without him sitting behind the wheel. Really WTF? who was going to hold the steering wheel.

and lastly.... to get my or my mates 4WD down to where he was, would put us in the same position.

Plus to make it worst, he didnt have any recovery gear of his own, no snatch points.

We did offer to take him and his girl friend to get some help. Which we did, but no recovery service was available. He did however ask this 4WD Nissan club for help... they drove down to have a look, but they just gave him **** and took photos then drove off.

It was his choice not to atleast try to reverse... so i wasnt going to hang around any longer on my weekend.

You guys might call me a bastard, but only so much you can help someone. He needed to make a decision instead of just looking at the car.

Dorko

Sorry even if he was a idiot you dont leave anyone stranded

Originally Posted by rangieman

Sorry even if he was a idiot you dont leave anyone stranded

Yeah thats fair enough... but i did offer to take him back to Yachnep for some proper recover help. He wanted to stay with the car...

At the end of the day his choices put him there. I offered the help with out putting me or my car in danger/damage. The last thing i wanted was to be attached to his car if it rolled. He might sue me for damages.... I'm not putting my self in that situation.

I guess if you got $65k to throw around buying a new 4WD trying to save someone else... you must have more money than brains....

This situation wasnt a simple snatch... it had huge risks involved in all angles.

But i do respect what you are saying...

Dorko

Originally Posted by Dorko

Yeh, don't get me wrong, we tried to help.... We stayed there for 2 hours.

But we didnt really want to snatch him, because of the position and angle of his prado. It was so close to rolling over. I wasnt going to have my car damaged in the attempt to save his. It would of pulled my car down with him.

And the guy was a bit of a ******... he didnt want to admit he stuffed up and he didnt want to jump back in the car to reverse out, just incase it rolled. He wanted to snatch without him sitting behind the wheel. Really WTF? who was going to hold the steering wheel.

and lastly.... to get my or my mates 4WD down to where he was, would put us in the same position.

Plus to make it worst, he didnt have any recovery gear of his own, no snatch points.

We did offer to take him and his girl friend to get some help. Which we did, but no recovery service was available. He did however ask this 4WD Nissan club for help... they drove down to have a look, but they just gave him **** and took photos then drove off.

It was his choice not to atleast try to reverse... so i wasnt going to hang around any longer on my weekend.

You guys might call me a bastard, but only so much you can help someone. He needed to make a decision instead of just looking at the car.

Dorko

If there was more than one car in your party you could of used another car to anchor yours.......the picture obviously doesn't show the severity of the position the car was in (which is usually the case)...as it well to me anyway doesn't look that bad! yes he has dropped a front wheel off the edge slightly....but looking at your first picture he still has 3 very well planted wheels with room to move on the rear left from the edge.....

it certainly doesn't look like it is going over

In saying that if the guy was being a ****** I could see why you walked away...

Its only my opinion that I would of stayed, as long as I wasn't committed to going somewhere else