philipscoggins
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Had a trip to take out of town this weekend & contacted my dealer about using my One2One rewards for the free car rental. For those who don't know, if you buy/lease a LEAF you get 10 days of free car rentals. They gave me a choice of about 5 Nissan models. I told them I was driving about 550 miles, round trip, & wanted the nicest thing they had with good gas mileage. They suggested an Altima. Picked it up Friday, nice 2012 car with 6k miles on it. I haven't driven an ice car for almost 2 months... I hated it! I felt like everyone posting about how jerkey & rough they felt ice cars were after driving their LEAF for a while. It took quite a while to get used to it, but the jerkyness at slow speeds and the lack of regenerative braking was so different. I couldn't wait to get back on Sunday to drive my LEAF home.
Which leads me to another question. When I dropped my car off I had asked them to check out a dent in the hatchback, no scratches or anything, someone bumped me. They said they couldn't fix it as they didn't have a body shop on site, but they would run a free 21 point inspection and plug it in for me Saturday night so my timer could charge it up for me on schedule. Only 2 salesmen were there Sunday when I picked up the car & there was no paperwork. But my car's brakes seem to be different, hard to explain, but maybe a little "tighter". I had considered asking them to install the grabby brakes update since it bothered me a little, but was in a hurry and figured I'd worry about it some other time. Question :?: , is there a way to tell what version LEAF software/firmware my car is running and what updates have been installed?
BTW, it cost me $75 in gas... more than I will spend all month to drive my LEAF a little less than 2000 miles...
Philip
Which leads me to another question. When I dropped my car off I had asked them to check out a dent in the hatchback, no scratches or anything, someone bumped me. They said they couldn't fix it as they didn't have a body shop on site, but they would run a free 21 point inspection and plug it in for me Saturday night so my timer could charge it up for me on schedule. Only 2 salesmen were there Sunday when I picked up the car & there was no paperwork. But my car's brakes seem to be different, hard to explain, but maybe a little "tighter". I had considered asking them to install the grabby brakes update since it bothered me a little, but was in a hurry and figured I'd worry about it some other time. Question :?: , is there a way to tell what version LEAF software/firmware my car is running and what updates have been installed?
BTW, it cost me $75 in gas... more than I will spend all month to drive my LEAF a little less than 2000 miles...
Philip