{"id":2026,"date":"2015-11-08T07:57:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/disconnect-car-battery-vacation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:35:30","slug":"disconnect-car-battery-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/disconnect-car-battery-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Disconnect Your Car Battery Before Long Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4026\" src=\"http:\/\/japaninfoswap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Car photo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The expat lifestyle in Japan often means long durations of time spent abroad, and away from your vehicle. Before you go we wanted to remind you of a few things to keep in mind before leaving your vehicle parked for any length of time.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping in mind that navigation\u00a0and other electronics\u00a0systems available in modern cars can drain batteries dead\u00a0after\u00a0as little as\u00a01 week \u00a0left idle, so the most important of these is\u00a0to disconnect your car&#8217;s battery in order to prevent it from going dead and stranding you at the airport, or at home before your morning commute back to work.<\/p>\n<p>This is especially important as battery damage is most often the responsibility of the person driving the car, rather than the leasing company or dealer&#8217;s responsibility, which makes returning to a dead battery not only inconvenient, but potentially very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Besides disconnecting your battery, here are some other things to keep in mind before\u00a0leaving your car for an extended period:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not to leave any items in the cabin that are visible to a\u00a0passerby if your car is parked outside, for either short or long periods of time parked.<\/li>\n<li>Help reduce extreme cabin temperatures by purchasing a sunshade for your windshield.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you need some help disconnecting your battery you can take a look at Lease Japan&#8217;s handy guide.\u00a0 It has some simple instructions that could save you from the headache of a dead battery later!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/japaninfoswap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Disconnect_Battery.pdf\">LJ Disconnect Battery Guide (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expat lifestyle in Japan often means long durations of time spent abroad, and away from your vehicle. Before you go we wanted to remind you of a few things to keep in mind before leaving your vehicle parked for any length of time. Keeping in mind that navigation\u00a0and other electronics\u00a0systems available in modern cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[78,124,79,80,81,126],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-cars-and-driving","tag-drivers-licence","tag-driving","tag-lease-cars","tag-lease-japan","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51122,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/51122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrcjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}