johnlocke said:
Another report of a 2 bar loser in AZ.
"I have a 2016 SV with a 30 kWh battery that has lost two bars. The first was around 12k miles, and the second at 17k miles. My car is now at 19,800 miles and I FINALLY bought Leaf Spy and an OBDII adapter because my range has dropped considerably in the past month or so. My stats are as follows, AHr = 52.31, SOH = 65%, and Hx = 61.23%. "
It definitely looks like the percentage values for the loss of bars has changed and not in a good way. If this guy is down to 65% capacity and is only down 2 bars, where the Hell is a 4 bar loss going to be? 50% 40% Something less?
If that SoH is correct, then it looks like Nissan has changed where the bars get lost in order to minimize warranty replacements. They may be setting themselves up for another lawsuit. I've brought it up a dozen times before, but I'll bring it up again, but Nissan tries to sweep things under the rug. Just do a google search for (Nissan CVT failure) and you'll see where for certain year models they extended the CVT warranty on cars like the Juke, etc, to 100,000 miles, while others like the 2014 Versa that I have in addition to my Leaf, had the CVT warranty expire at 60,000 miles. (Our CVT started experiencing problems at 15,000 miles and finally failed at 45,000 miles so I expect that since our replacement started having issues again at 63,000 miles that this replacement one will fail at 90,000-95,000 miles.) Nissan Versa forums have many others with the issue, yet Nissan will not extend the warranty on the CVTs on these cars to 100,000 miles. If ours goes out prior to 100,000 miles, I will talk about the matter with my lawyer, if we don't manage to get rid of the car before then.
Back to the Leaf, however, since the warranty isn't based upon % capacity, but based on bars, if they change the metrics that the bars are based around, they're gaming the system. I fear what Nissan will do to the reputation of BEVs when people are buying the 2018 Leaf and 3 years into ownership, their 150 mile range BEV only gets 105-110 miles. I think they'll howl.