14th June 2015 In our rental sports car, we stopped late in the evening on the Southern Scenic Subway to inspect the intriguing flow control gates at the the confluence of the Waiau and Mararoa Rivers, 20 minutes south of Manapouri. In a moment of absent mindedness we misplaced the car key, probably (hopefully) in the boot. Our boot release button failed to operate! We were rescued by the designated AA service, Mobil Te Anau. Atter ingenious research, access to secret AA documentation, and persistence, persistence, persistence.... our AA saviour released our boot, saving a day waiting for a spare key to be shipped from Christchurch by our car rental company. Ten years of paying my AA sub repaid! We discovered that when you drive our sportscar with the roof down, there is an optional, secret, inaccessible button that disables the boot release button. Quite sensible, really, if, as driver, you know about the secret switch! Thanks again, Mobil Te Anau and AA.
14th June 2015 In our rental sports car, we stopped late in the evening on the Southern Scenic Subway to inspect the intriguing flow control gates at the the confluence of the Waiau and Mararoa Rivers, 20 minutes south of Manapouri. In a moment of absent mindedness we misplaced the car key, probably (hopefully) in the boot. Our boot release button failed to operate! We were rescued by the designated AA service, Mobil Te Anau. Atter ingenious research, access to secret AA documentation, and persistence, persistence, persistence.... our AA saviour released our boot, saving a day waiting for a spare key to be shipped from Christchurch by our car rental company. Ten years of paying my AA sub repaid! We discovered that when you drive our sportscar with the roof down, there is an optional, secret, inaccessible button that disables the boot release button. Quite sensible, really, if, as driver, you know about the secret switch! Thanks again, Mobil Te Anau and AA.
Mobil Te Anau (0.01 km)
Te Anau Dairy (0.02 km)
Kiwi Country Limited (0.03 km)
Ming Garden Chinese Restaurant (0.03 km)
In our rental sports car, we stopped late in the evening on the Southern Scenic Subway to inspect the intriguing flow control gates at the the confluence of the Waiau and Mararoa Rivers, 20 minutes south of Manapouri. In a moment of absent mindedness we misplaced the car key, probably (hopefully) in the boot. Our boot release button failed to operate! We were rescued by the designated AA service, Mobil Te Anau. Atter ingenious research, access to secret AA documentation, and persistence, persistence, persistence.... our AA saviour released our boot, saving a day waiting for a spare key to be shipped from Christchurch by our car rental company. Ten years of paying my AA sub repaid! We discovered that when you drive our sportscar with the roof down, there is an optional, secret, inaccessible button that disables the boot release button. Quite sensible, really, if, as driver, you know about the secret switch! Thanks again, Mobil Te Anau and AA.