Nissan Leaf

You could try a HEVRA garage, there are a few dotted around Ireland: https://hevra.org.uk/garages.html

Hi , I have Nissan Leaf 2011 from Japan imports, any body know what’s wrong I put to charge and after 10sec is stop and write error vehicle problem , I need some mechanic 👨‍🔧 around Dublin

hi all

I'm having charge faults with the Chademo port recently (all ESB ecars EVSEs faulting but ecars support told me that other EVs charged just fine on those chargers the same day that I experienced the faults).

Windsor dealers in Galway checked the Leaf (2020) today and said everything is normal with the charger electrics (and they seem reputable). I myself noticed that one of the connectors seems dirty but Windsor says it's fine (see attached pic).

is there any way to 'clean' this connector without being fried, just to satisfy my own potential delusion!

thanks a lot for your opinion, back to Windsor I go!

I've a 2016 L30 with just over 159k km so almost out of warranty. Leafspy is showing SOH of 71.4% and only 9 bars remaining. Leafspy is also showing the battery having approx 19kwh on a full charge. For some time now, even during recent cold spell I was getting approx 110km on a charge. However on a recent journey of just under 90km I started off with 18.6kwh, used 14.5kwh and had a balance of 1.3 kwh. These figures don't add up, there seems to be up to 3.5kwh missing. Does anyone know if this is just Leafspy being inacurrate or if the 14.5kwh consumption figure is more accurate than the kWh balance figure.

The other issue I've noticed is that up to very recently an almost full charge required approx 20kw per the EV charger. However over last couple of weeks the same charge is only using just over 16kw. Is there any reason why the battery is taking so much less charge, could it be a faulty charger reading or is it indicative of a battery issue? Is is possible that the GOM and no of bars are overstating the battery SOC?

I suppose I'm clutching at straws here in wondering if there is any point bringing to a dealer before the magical 160k km figure is reached. The way things are going, with the range dropping so quickly, the car will soon not be able to complete a lot of the journeys I now use it for so it will be back to diesel again for a lot of my journeys

A few things...

1) Doesn't the warranty kick in at 70% SoH? In that case you are so close to that I'd definitely be logging a claim against warranty and get that process started before you give them any reasons to refuse you based on km's driven. Get the car booked in and the km's recorded before it hits 160k km. Is the warranty 8 years on the battery?

2) Since its a 2016 L30, did you get the BMS firmware update applied, which gives you back a few bars?

3) When you are at a low SoC, what does the LeafSpy histogram of cell voltages show you? Are there weak cells? LeafSpy will point them out to you at the bottom of the screen but you need to be at approx <10% SoC for it to show them.

4) The colder weather (and hence colder battery) recently would be affecting your capacity so that "might" explain some of the reduced range.

Make sure the car has following hv battery version:

Also the 4th capacity bar won't drop until quite a bit below 70% reported SOH so probably too late for you, unfortunately.

That would make sense or at least it would explain the poor battery performance. The only thing I don't understand is why the dealer didn't pick it up during servicing. I'll book it in and see what happens. Thanks for advice

On the LeafSpy, it's reporting the buffer in the percentage iirc, so that's the discrepancy between percentage showed and available kWh.

Wanna kill a couple of percent? A few fast charges one after the other might do the trick 😂

Watching this with interest and can't add anything useful. My 30kwh leaf has just gone over 161k km. 11th bar went at 156k km. Don't have leaf spy to check the SOH.

Do you let the battery charge to 100% and give it time to balance the cells?

I've a 100km round trip commute and still fine for that but the last 2 cold spells really tested it.

Just went out to check leafspy and I have those battery codes so at least I know its not the BMS update thats causing the problem

I've a nephew who's only learning to drive at the moment. He's been taking a bus to work & back, a distance of nearly 50km. The cost of buying, insuring, taxing and fuelling even something like a 1.0 Yaris is pretty steep for a lad in his early 20s only starting out in his main career, and right now he has just a couple of grand saved towards a car. It wasn't a top priority, but the need for one has just become more pressing with a youngster on the way!

I'm wondering whether an early Leaf would be a viable option for him - I know it would need to be charged at least once a day to manage his commute, but although he lives in an apartment there are several public chargepoints within 1-1.5km of his home, plus another across the road from his work so hopefully accessing that wouldn't be an issue (haven't yet asked if dedicated work-based charging would be an option). Would a Mk1 Leaf attract as high an insurance premium for a new driver as other hatchbacks seem to? I've spotted one on autotrader for under £5k sterling, and am wondering if the repayments on a credit union loan to cover the gap between that and what he has already saved would essentially be met by the savings on fuel, tax and bus fares (assuming there are no issues with bringing that one into the south from NI).

The other question I would have is whether the need to charge in full every day would degrade the battery too quickly to make it worthwhile. The ad for the Leaf I was looking at includes a photo of the GOM showing a supposed 91 miles of range, but I imagine that's after a lot of downhill driving ...

PS apologies if this question belongs in a different thread/subforum - no worries if it needs to be moved.

While the public transport option is a lot slower than driving direct would be, he would have been sticking with that a while longer until they found out about the surprise package! It's the impending arrival that has them thinking in terms of needing a car - it would halve his commuting time, giving him about an hour a day more at home with his partner and the new baby, plus it would mean they'd have another transport option for getting to appointments, family etc. So whether or not there's a need for a car isn't really the question here - it's whether a Leaf could actually work for them, plus if anyone can give an informed opinion in terms of likely insurance costs it would be much appreciated.

Well, it would make life a lot easier for the day to day stuff. If they want to go longer distance then public transport would still be the default. But I'm thinking in terms of the likelihood of a Leaf being easier on the pocket to run versus a Yaris, 207, Clio etc of similar age & mileage, and that for their particular use case it could do the trick better than an ICE.