{"id":155,"date":"2014-06-19T23:28:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T23:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T21:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T11:42:10","slug":"going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Planning a Long Trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, we have noticed a growing trend with many of our customers travelling overseas, especially&nbsp;during our winter months.&nbsp; However, a<strong> problem can arise with a car\u2019s battery if it is not being used for more than a week.<\/strong> Each year, we have many instances with flat batteries after the owners arrive back from holidays! &nbsp; BM Tech offers many solutions to this dreaded <em><strong>no-start <\/strong><\/em>situation, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Free Battery Testing while-you-wait, <\/strong>using our electronic carbon-pile battery tester.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Servicing of your vehicle whilst you are away<\/strong>. This is where we can pick up your car from your home and then deliver it back once the service (and the battery check) is complete, and<\/li>\n<li>an <strong>Airport Valet Service* <\/strong>where you can leave your vehicle at BM Tech for service and then we can drop you off at the airport. Once we\u2019ve finished the service, we then deliver the car to Jet Port Parking. On your arrival you will be picked up by the Jet Port Courtesy Bus to take you back to your vehicle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like more specific information, please call our <strong>Canterbury Branch on 9836-1888 <\/strong>or <strong>Essendon on 9379-8810 <\/strong>where our service advisers will be able to answer&nbsp;any queries. Thank you. &nbsp; Kind regards, Joe Brogno * <em>Airport Valet Service available from BM Tech Essendon branch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning a Long Trip? Over the past few years, we have noticed a growing trend with many of our customers travelling overseas, especially&nbsp;during our winter months.&nbsp; However, a problem can arise with a car\u2019s battery if it is not being used for more than a week. Each year, we have many instances with flat batteries <a href=\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-relacion-manager","post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini - BMTech Canterbury<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Planning a Long Trip? Over the past few years, we have noticed a growing trend with many of our customers travelling overseas, especially&nbsp;during our\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini - BMTech Canterbury\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Planning a Long Trip? Over the past few years, we have noticed a growing trend with many of our customers travelling overseas, especially&nbsp;during our\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BMTech Canterbury\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-06-19T23:28:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-13T11:42:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"636\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"285\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Campbell Wilson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Campbell Wilson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Campbell Wilson\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/a54b62f8fb3796bcbefaebb9decb5934\"},\"headline\":\"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-06-19T23:28:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-13T11:42:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/\"},\"wordCount\":239,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/\",\"name\":\"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini - BMTech Canterbury\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-06-19T23:28:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-13T11:42:10+00:00\",\"description\":\"Planning a Long Trip? Over the past few years, we have noticed a growing trend with many of our customers travelling overseas, especially&nbsp;during our\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg\",\"width\":636,\"height\":285},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/\",\"name\":\"BMTech Canterbury\",\"description\":\"We Drive With You\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#organization\",\"name\":\"BM Tech\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-14.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-14.png\",\"width\":272,\"height\":112,\"caption\":\"BM Tech\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/a54b62f8fb3796bcbefaebb9decb5934\",\"name\":\"Campbell Wilson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8329fba9410606585be6662349d419aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8329fba9410606585be6662349d419aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Campbell Wilson\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini - BMTech Canterbury","description":"Planning a Long Trip? Over the past few years, we have noticed a growing trend with many of our customers travelling overseas, especially&nbsp;during our","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini - BMTech Canterbury","og_description":"Planning a Long Trip? Over the past few years, we have noticed a growing trend with many of our customers travelling overseas, especially&nbsp;during our","og_url":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/","og_site_name":"BMTech Canterbury","article_published_time":"2014-06-19T23:28:27+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-09-13T11:42:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":636,"height":285,"url":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Campbell Wilson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Campbell Wilson","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/"},"author":{"name":"Campbell Wilson","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/a54b62f8fb3796bcbefaebb9decb5934"},"headline":"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini","datePublished":"2014-06-19T23:28:27+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-13T11:42:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/"},"wordCount":239,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg","articleSection":["General"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/","url":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/","name":"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini - BMTech Canterbury","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg","datePublished":"2014-06-19T23:28:27+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-13T11:42:10+00:00","description":"Planning a Long Trip? Over the past few years, we have noticed a growing trend with many of our customers travelling overseas, especially&nbsp;during our","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg","width":636,"height":285},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/going-overseas-helpful-hints-for-your-bmw-or-mini\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Going Overseas? Helpful hints for your BMW or Mini"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#website","url":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/","name":"BMTech Canterbury","description":"We Drive With You","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#organization","name":"BM Tech","url":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-14.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/logo-14.png","width":272,"height":112,"caption":"BM Tech"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/a54b62f8fb3796bcbefaebb9decb5934","name":"Campbell Wilson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8329fba9410606585be6662349d419aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8329fba9410606585be6662349d419aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Campbell Wilson"}}]}},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg",636,285,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport-300x134.jpg",300,134,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg",636,285,false],"large":["https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg",636,285,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg",636,285,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/airport.jpg",636,285,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Campbell Wilson","author_link":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/author\/relacion-manager\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Planning a Long Trip? Over the past few years, we have noticed a growing trend with many of our customers travelling overseas, especially&nbsp;during our winter months.&nbsp; However, a problem can arise with a car\u2019s battery if it is not being used for more than a week. Each year, we have many instances with flat batteries&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmtech.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}