Nissan Leaf

Just following up on this issue. Still waiting on dealer to come back but I have been keeping an eye on Leafspy and have noticed the 'weak cells' message on a few occasions now, especially when soc is low after a longer trip. See attached one example below. I've also noticed a DTC P31B8 CAN error which Im unclear if related to the weak cells or something completely different. The car drives perfectly except for the reduced range and erratic % battery remaining level, especially when level drops below 50%.

Will be interesting to see how they will deal with your warranty claim. At least you're well within the 160k km warranty so no basis for Nissan fobbing you off. Unfortunately Im now at 162k km but brought this problem to the dealers attention before I hit the 160k km milestone. However, Im not confident of getting any joy from Nissan in my case.

Can anyone help this woman fix her leaf. She is asking about sourcing a pdm but she probably needs someone to identify the correct part number and know how to replace it. Car cant slow charge but can fast charge. There is also the risk the dealer is wrong and it could be another charger related fault.

I think she may need on site support. She has spike on the phone to specialists who have said she needs to source her own pdm...

I was told I do have the latest firmware but to be honest I'm not sure. I asked about the one suggested a few pages back but Nissan told me everything is up to date and there are no outstanding issues, recalls or campaigns for my car.

When I flagged the rapid decrease in battery that is reported on leafspy they basically said they wouldn't even entertain leafspy as it's not recognised by them. Wait for the battery to drop to 8 and then bring it in is what they said.

It's very annoying waiting as it will seriously hinder me selling on the car at the moment. Even though my range doesn't seem to be overly affected (110km freezing temperatures, 135km at the moment in milder weather and last summer I was getting 170km in warm weather). I was getting similar with 12 bars. Seeing only 9 bars would put off potential buyers if I did want to sell though.

Thats pretty good range for 69% SOH TBH. Mine's at 70.5% SOH and lucky to get 100km at present even on a single journey driving at extreme granny speed, approx 95 kph indicated (less than 80kph GPS). If I do a number of shorter journeys range could drop as low as mid 80s.

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Ya that's why I'm not sure what's up. The estimated range actually seems to be pretty ok, it's just the bars and SOH keep dropping. Something is being mis-read somewhere.

Pretty much a mirror image of how I manage my charging. Given that 50% SOC could yield less than 40kms, I will always charge to full every time the SOC goes below 60%. My low battery warning kicks in at 19% and then drops very rapidly to 6% and then the dreaded '--' appears but the car seems to go on for a fair bit after that until the turtle warning appears. I never risk driving it to real zero to see what kind of buffer exists at that stage.

Anything to watch out for when buying a 2nd Gen Leaf, except for battery health?

Looking at 2019-2020 models

I assume the more quick charges it has the worse off the battery is but what even is a low amount of quick charges?

Yes it has a bar chart from 0 to 1 and that shows the health.

Hah, I tried to refresh the charge status this morning and it was on the blink. I killed the app and it worked afterwards.

It has been quite ok recently. They did some work on the backend in the last few weeks but the reliability of the Connect continues to disappoint

Just curious, how often do people get the Leaf's service if they're going to a main dealer? I was lucky enough to get a new Leaf last year. The Service Book says every 30,000km or 1 Year, but my Dealer's sticker says every 20,000km or 1 Year. I'll be doing every year anyhow, as I don't hit 20,000 in a year, but I'm curious about which is correct!

Testing the brake fluid needs equipment that detects the boiling point and it makes sense to change it regardless of mileage every 3 or 4 years. The only reason why I have used dealer is if the car is new and in warranty (like with the previous new LEAFs or last year when we bought an used one with 7 battery bars remaining and I wanted firmware upgrade and some comeback if the battery fails).

The dealers want to stick on some random number of km on the sticker (in our case 15k) but Nissan does specify every year/30k km whichever comes sooner. And every 2 years for the brake fluid which is rather often.

I have a loan of a Nissan leaf 40kw, SVE trim. I will possibly have the option of buying this exact car in December as a family member will be trading it in. Living in Dublin but need to drive down the country to family probably every 2nd or 3 weekend. Distance wise is 155km but is all motorway. Am I over optimistic in saying I could get this journey complete at 110kph on cruise control on a single charge in winter? My wife does not like the idea of stopping. In Dublin we have plenty of range, office charging and driveway so I can install my own charger but she thinks I'm mad and want to go diesel.

The 155km is one way, so it's 305/310 return trip. I'll need to plug it in using the granny cable to charge and I'm always down for at least a day.

Stopping on the route down which normally takes 1hr 30mins would make the journey longer. Also the stops are limited it is down the m9 motorway. Jumping in the N7 to M9.

I looked up the cost of the charging at apple Green and Circle K. It's pretty expensive and probably works out the same as my diesel car.