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After the LBC battery correction, FlipTheFleet was predicting that at 3 years, the 30kwhr battery would be just under 90% SOH: I'm a few weeks over 3 years, with 36k miles, and SOH is 88.96% and 323 GIDs.... pretty much exactly where FlipTheFleet predicted. (measurement taken after running...

I parked overnight with 21% SOC; then drove this morning to a L2 charger. Got the Low Battery popup message at 14% (which is normal). A block before I got to the charger, I got a turtle with "drive power reduced" popup message. But the battery meter still showed 6%. In the past, at about...

I stopped at a free EVSE I found on plugshare. When I plugged in the J1772, my Leaf showed the icon for DTC error codes: ( ! ) . I turned the car off/on, then off->ACC->ON, but the DTC persisted. Worse, I could not get the "green car GO" icon when I turned the car On with my foot on the...

I am getting a turtle today. Turned the car off and on about 5 times, and get a turtle and "output power is limited" message after about 10 seconds. I was originally getting 12v battery alarms, so I charged the 12v with a Battery Minder. But now, "it's turtles all the way down." Ambient...

I needed a charge, and stopped at Morrie's Nissan Brooklyn Park (MN). The DCFC was an odd design, about the size of a doghouse. It had a little tin "mailbox" on the side in which to stow the charging connector. Thankfully, it fired up. Once it was going, I hit the car's Power button twice...

My 30kwh 2017 Leaf S had the battery module reprogrammed last summer to fix the "incorrect" low readings of SOH. I noticed that the GOM reads higher on a full battery, and SOH% drop seems slightly slower. However, once last fall, I thought I'd noticed the SOH dropping like a stone when the...

I have read in several places that the "rule of thumb" is that you need about as much driver's liability coverage as the sum of your assets. For example, if you own a $100k house "free and clear," and have $100k max-per-accident liability insurance, then that's OK. But if you own a $200k...

Newbie-ish question! What does the "Park" setting on the shifter actually do? I was putting snow tires on, and noticed that I could turn the front hub by hand (though not easily). I did not remember putting transmission in Neutral, so that was a surprise.

Oh-oh. I had two stripped studs on one wheel: . - removed wheel - there was a plastic ring in the center of the brake rotor; removed it - sprayed penetrating oil in the center ring area; waited; turned wheel 90 degrees and sprayed more; repeat; repeat; wait a few hours - pulled lower brake...

I got a dent in my bumper. It looks like the plastic has "popped" inwards: ***UPDATE: it popped back out fine (see later post) *** I tried whacking the back of that dent with a nylon mallet, but it didn't pop-out. I don't want to whack too hard, because it was 10F outside this morning...

CleanTechnica has an article quoting ElectricSwede and Bjørn Nylund's YouTube vlogs, saying that new 2019 Leafs are being shipped with BMS that significantly reduces throttling of 2nd and 3rd DCFC session...

Last winter, I noticed that when I charged and preheated the car, I would usually start the day with 97% charge. Preheating seemed to eat 3% of SOC, even though the car was plugged-in. I was wondering if this was because charging had already completed and shut-off, before the preheat started...

I think I read a post somewhere, saying that Nissan had cheaped-out on later-model EVSEs, and started using thinner wire gauge from the J1772 to the EVSE. Does anyone recall if that's correct, and what year? My J1772 cable (from 2017 Leaf) gets pretty warm, just charging at 12A... warm enough...

I have an S-model leaf (no heat pump). I've seen some instructions to insulate heater pipes to improve heater efficiency. But I can't tell if they are only for the 2011/2012 ceramic heater, or also for the later PTC (like my 2017 S). If it's an option for later Leaf S, then I'd like to do...

Last fall, I purchased a set of four TPMS sensors for $15.88 each on eBay, for some alloy summer wheels (TireRack wanted $42 per TPMS sensor). I swapped winter/summer wheels yesterday, and the TMPS alarm came-on after about 10 minutes of driving, as expected. Today, I used the TMPS...

I park outside. I charge every night. It snows. Sometimes, the area around the chargeport has snow. At first, I tried brushing it out with the bristle-end of a windshield scraper/brush. But I didn't get all the snow. When I unplugged the EVSE from the car, a small amount of snow fell into...

I tried using the preheat; it was great, for about a week. Then we got a couple inches of snow. The preheat turned the snow on the windshield to slush. The channel at the base of the window was about 3 inches deep with water/slush. I tried scooping it out with the windshield brush, then my...

I have a question for cold weather folks: how fast does the battery heater (cold weather package) deplete your traction battery when parked outside at subzero temps, unplugged (e.g. airport parking lot)? This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brn5FiLFRIg ...mentions battery depleting from...

2017 Leaf S, Minneapolis MN. Almost 3K miles in 3 months. No problems so-far (knock-on-lithium). My wife took the leaf for a short (2 mile / 3km) drive to an appt. this morning. Temps were about -2F / -19C . She texted to ask what the turtle meant ( :shock: ). She reports that the...

In August, at about 70F, I was charging at 12.9 watt-hours/second doing DCFC. Yesterday at 16 degrees F, I was getting 5.75 watt-hours/second at the same charge station. The amount I can charge in a half-hour appears to have dropped from 23kw-hrs to 10.