Help! Daughter Stranded in New Zealand

[Spydaman]

Need some help with my daughters car. She's 20, on her own in New Zealand and her car wont start. It's a 95 Subaru Legacy that wont turn over on the key. Apparently the radio works but thats all I know. Where do I start to help her?

[grumbledoak]

Ask her when she last put petrol in it.

[Papa Hotel]

Maybe the NZ equivalent of the AA?

[GuitarTech]

Not sure if serious?

[Z4monster]

Flat battery? Sounds like it to me. Enough juice for the radio but not to crank the engine. heck the headlights haven't been left on. Also check how bright they are as if they are dim then I definitely suspect the battery is US.

[mids]

Earlier in the year I had the same thing, called the AA, he got me to turn the key whilst he hit my starter motor with an iron rod and it fired up (stuck solenoid). It's a simple thing to try although probably difficult to do if she is on her own.

[Riley Blue]

http://yellow.co.nz/

[McWigglebum4th]

Pics?

[Spydaman]

Good point abou the petrol but it's not even turning over so probably not that.
I suspect battery too and have asked her to check the headlights worka dn are bright.
I also suspect the starter motor and have asked her to rock it backwards and forwards in gear. I'll get her to whack the start but is it accesssible?

[anonymous-user]

Find some large Māori blokes and bump start it?

[JumboBeef]

That quite a road trip. Was she following the Sat Nav to Tesco?

[clonmult]

JumboBeef said:

That quite a road trip. Was she following the Sat Nav to Tesco?

Apple Maps turns every shopping trip into an adventure ...

[Craigwww]

Spydaman said:

Need some help with my daughters car. She's 20, on her own in New Zealand and her car wont start. It's a 95 Subaru Legacy that wont turn over on the key. Apparently the radio works but thats all I know. Where do I start to help her?

Long shot but where in NZ? I have two friends there just now..

[Papa Hotel]

Craigwww said:

Spydaman said:

Need some help with my daughters car. She's 20, on her own in New Zealand and her car wont start. It's a 95 Subaru Legacy that wont turn over on the key. Apparently the radio works but thats all I know. Where do I start to help her?

Long shot but where in NZ? I have two friends there just now..

Oh, a friend of mine is a cop there. He's a crap driver and his name is James Dean.

[hornetrider]

I went to New Zealand once. Hope that helps.

[Spydaman]

She's in Queenstown

[bmthnick1981]

I've never been to New Zealand so I probably can't help. Sorry.

[Robert Burns]

http://www.aa.co.nz/membership/roadservice-breakdo...

Get them out to look into the car. Very unlikely the fourms on the other side of the world will fix it.

[Papa Hotel]

Spydaman said:

She's in Queenstown

Without looking the place up, I'd assume that's a town. Tell her to ask someone for help.

You say she's an adult?

[Sweller]

If its a manual, press the clutch, then turn the key