Recent content by schamberlin

Thanks! Just got the Leaf back today with the replacement battery pack, and it's like having an entirely new car. 110 mile range! Unfortunately that only lasted for about 10 seconds before it dropped to a more realistic number. Now it reports about 84 miles on the guess-o-meter with a full...

Just dropped off the Leaf this morning for the battery pack replacement. Final mileage: 59986! Take that, 60000 mile warranty.

Date of manufacture is 6/11.

Yeah. The Nissan service advisor told me it was OK to exceed 60K now that they'd collected the warranty claim info, but I'd hate to get a nasty surprise when it's time to perform the new battery install. If I swap cars with my wife, we can limit the Leaf's daily mileage to 4 miles. But 3-5 weeks...

I also lost my 4th battery bar recently (yesterday), on a 2011 Leaf with 59,846 miles. Here are the stats from LeafSpy: AHr=42.66, SOH=65%, 385.47V, Hx=43.87%, odo=59,846mi, 8 QCs, 3506 L1/L2s This car has been in the San Francisco bay area its whole life, where summer high temperatures are...

Congrats mwalsh, it's a lucky day! My battery stats upon 4th bar loss appear slightly worse than yours, but I see differently-named stats than you reported. Maybe I have a different version of the app? Here's what I see: AHr=42.66, SOH=65%, 385.47V, Hx=43.87%, odo=59,846mi, 8 QCs, 3506 L1/L2s...

I called the local Nissan dealer, and they said to bring the car in today to collect the info for a warranty claim. That's only 5 miles away, so there's no risk of going over 60K. After that I should be able to swap cars with my wife, and keep it under 60K for a week or two while waiting for the...

My 2011 Nissan Leaf just dropped to 8 bars, at 59836 miles. Can I just bring it to the Nissan Dealer and get a replacement now, or is there more to it? I see lots of posts here from people discussing the battery warranty, and watching their bars waiting for the 4th to drop, but not many reports...

So what's the status today, then? The $100/month replacement program announced in June 2013 has just quietly died? Is there any program at all for a Leaf owner to get a new battery, either today or expected soonish, other than the 9 bar capacity warranty?

The $100/month battery lease program was supposed to begin in 2014, right? So is it actually open for sign-ups now, and if so has anyone signed up and gotten their one-time battery replacement? Were details ever explained about what happens with the next owner when you eventually sell the car...

Well, poop. Given that the fix-a-flat can is the only solution Nissan gives you, a warning that it would destroy your TPMS sensor would be nice. Is it viable to not replace the sensor, and just leave that one toasted? None of our previous cars have had TPMS, so I really wouldn't miss it if it...

My wife's Leaf just got a flat tire. The fix-a-flat can seems to have saved the day for the moment, but how do you replace a tire on this thing? Do we need to buy a "TPMS compatible tire", or will the pressure sensor work with an appropriately-sized tire? Is it OK to replace just the one tire...

Original poster here. If anyone's curious, what I finally did was hire an electrician to install a new 40A 240V line, and put an outlet on it. That cost only half as much as having a 40A line and a hard-wired EVSE installed - which doesn't really make sense, I suspect there may be some "premium...

How do you order (or pre-order) one of the Bosch units? Any predictions on future reliability? I'm a little leery of a new, untested EVSE brand. It seems that some EVSEs (like Blink) have a lot more issues, while others just work. I'd probably lean towards one of the existing time-tested EVSE...

My car won't take advantage of the higher charging rate, and the quality and reliability of the Bosch is unknown since it's new. And it's not even available for sale yet. :) From reading other threads on the subject, I thought the typical cost of a basic install like this was around $300 +...