swmccarthy
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There are a lot of used off-lease 2012 Leaf SLs available from Carmax in my general area around Georgia for about $15k. Most are from the midwest or northeast, more than half have lost a bar, but a few show pictures with all twelve bars and about 20,000 - 25,000 miles. I assume most of those are close to losing a bar, but I may be lucky enough to find one that has been babied. (A guy can hope, right?)
My questions are:
1. What sort of battery health should I look for on these used leafs? If I hook up an ABD-II adapter and run Leaf Spy on it, is there hope that the Health will be over 90%.
2. If I have them charge the leaf fully while I'm there is it reasonable to hope it has 255 Gids?
3. Are there other metrics I should pay attention to? I assume the above metrics would include the Ah of the fully charged battery, so would be the same as the Gids % when divided by 66.2 Ah. Correct?
This is for Leafs that are 24-27 months old. Obviously I would like to have as good a battery as possible, with nearly 0 loss, but I want my expectations to be realistic.
Or should I forget all of that and look for the worst battery I can find and hope to get it under 70% in the next three years?
My commute is only 9 miles (18 round trip) I go an additional 10 miles one a week or so (run to the store on the way home or taking kids to sports after work) I can live with 50 miles of range, but want to get the most bang for my buck.
As a side note, neither the Carmax sales people, nor their buyers seem to know what a capacity bar is, so there seems to be no correlation between battery health and price of used Leafs at the Carmax stores. (Too bad they don't negotiate)
My questions are:
1. What sort of battery health should I look for on these used leafs? If I hook up an ABD-II adapter and run Leaf Spy on it, is there hope that the Health will be over 90%.
2. If I have them charge the leaf fully while I'm there is it reasonable to hope it has 255 Gids?
3. Are there other metrics I should pay attention to? I assume the above metrics would include the Ah of the fully charged battery, so would be the same as the Gids % when divided by 66.2 Ah. Correct?
This is for Leafs that are 24-27 months old. Obviously I would like to have as good a battery as possible, with nearly 0 loss, but I want my expectations to be realistic.
Or should I forget all of that and look for the worst battery I can find and hope to get it under 70% in the next three years?
My commute is only 9 miles (18 round trip) I go an additional 10 miles one a week or so (run to the store on the way home or taking kids to sports after work) I can live with 50 miles of range, but want to get the most bang for my buck.
As a side note, neither the Carmax sales people, nor their buyers seem to know what a capacity bar is, so there seems to be no correlation between battery health and price of used Leafs at the Carmax stores. (Too bad they don't negotiate)