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Dubai Media City is home to broadcasters, agencies and production companies, and its car parks hold two kinds of vehicle: staff cars that sit through office hours, and crew vans and SUVs loaded with kit. Crew calls start early and finish late, so a dead battery here is usually a scheduling problem as much as a mechanical one. Give us the building, the car park and someone who will stay with the vehicle, and we will work around the shoot.

Our route to Dubai Media City

About Dubai Media City

• A business district built around media, broadcasting and production companies.
• The campus is almost entirely commercial buildings with staff and visitor parking.
• It belongs to the TECOM group of business communities alongside Internet City and Knowledge Park.

Where we find cars in Dubai Media City

Send the building number, whether it is the staff or visitor car park, and the level. For a crew vehicle parked at a loading area or a studio back door, give a pin there instead and tell us whether equipment is still inside. Name a crew member who is staying on site and can hand over the key while everyone else is working.

Kit charging off the car's battery

Production vehicles often double as mobile charging points. Inverters, camera battery chargers, monitors and work lights all run off the car while the engine is off between takes. A starter battery is built to deliver one hard burst and then be recharged, not to be drained slowly over hours, and repeated deep discharges shorten its life sharply. The telltale pattern is a van that needs a jump after every long day.

Before you message us

• Run the engine now and then if you are charging kit through an inverter.
• For vehicles that power gear regularly, ask us whether a higher-capacity battery suits them.
• Leave the key with a crew member who is staying, not with someone heading to a location.

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