mkjayakumar
Well-known member
I just returned my 2011 SV and leased a 2014 SV this evening. The car was manufactured on 1/14 and it had 25 miles in the Odo, and was just delivered overnight to the dealer's lot.
I told my dealer contact to have it charged to 100%, and the car just finished charging fully 15 minutes after I reached there. The first thing I did was to plug in the GID meter and to my shock and horror I saw only 255 Gids. In my previous 2011 Leaf this is what I had after 1 year and 12K miles.
I called the service manager and explained the whole thing to him and showed him the GID meter and the number and impressed upon him that 255 essentially means 10% degradation . He was very impressed with my knowledge and agreed to my request that he will have his chief Leaf technician look into this in the next few days by connecting to the Nissan leaf battery diagnostics computer. But he also postulated there are so many changes in the Leaf in 2014 that it is possible what the BMS outputs in 2014 might be a different set of values than that of 2011, that I shouldn't really take those numbers that matched my 2011 in face value. This same GID meter I had hooked it up to a 2013 SV and it showed 283 Gids on a 100% charge.
I am going to now bring it down to LBW and charge it fully to see if there is recovery in the GID value, and try that a few times to see if things get better. If not I have a tough fight in my hands.
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Update on 02/10: This is not really a problem. Please see my update on this same topic on Page 2 here: http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=15743&start=10#p353347
I told my dealer contact to have it charged to 100%, and the car just finished charging fully 15 minutes after I reached there. The first thing I did was to plug in the GID meter and to my shock and horror I saw only 255 Gids. In my previous 2011 Leaf this is what I had after 1 year and 12K miles.
I called the service manager and explained the whole thing to him and showed him the GID meter and the number and impressed upon him that 255 essentially means 10% degradation . He was very impressed with my knowledge and agreed to my request that he will have his chief Leaf technician look into this in the next few days by connecting to the Nissan leaf battery diagnostics computer. But he also postulated there are so many changes in the Leaf in 2014 that it is possible what the BMS outputs in 2014 might be a different set of values than that of 2011, that I shouldn't really take those numbers that matched my 2011 in face value. This same GID meter I had hooked it up to a 2013 SV and it showed 283 Gids on a 100% charge.
I am going to now bring it down to LBW and charge it fully to see if there is recovery in the GID value, and try that a few times to see if things get better. If not I have a tough fight in my hands.
******
Update on 02/10: This is not really a problem. Please see my update on this same topic on Page 2 here: http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=15743&start=10#p353347