Karma

[AlexD333]

Well hopefully I'm due some good karma my way now.me and the missus grabbed a bite to eat and went for a mini cruise, whilst driving on a40 the hillingdon turnoff we saw a poor guy trying to push his little vauxhall combo onto the grassy verge as it had broken down. So we turned around at the next junction and did a double back, pulled infront of him (on the side of this busy dual carriageway

He explained the van just stopped whilst he was driving it, so I got the old standard tow rope out the back hitched him on and slowly pulled him to a safe turnoff.

Then came the next stage, we were gonna leave him to it, but he had no recovery, had been driving a year, didn't know how to check oil or coolant and his phone was dead..

So we rang his family on my phone, whilst I got a postcode of a local neighbour and street name. They said they would be an hour, so we checked oil and coolant... There was none

I checked for white creamyness on oil cap and coolant chamber, all looked ok. So we then drove him to a petrol station, topped up with a big 5w30 and coolant bottle, filled her up, she took a lot of oil til it hit the stick... About 3 litres to top of stick. After fluids adjusted we tried cranking it, it was so close to starting but battery went a little weak, so we whipped out the jump leads... Gave her a good going but alas, no joy whilst cranking it looked like it was coughing black smoke (although now getting dark) at which point the family turned up in their land rover and hitched up ready for the drive to reading

Good luck!!!'

Any suggestions welcome too ive got their number