Leafy76
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Long time reader, first time poster and first time Leaf owner finally!
So brief background is I am currently testing out a 2013 Leaf SV. It was dropped off to me today in order for me to test drive it for 7 days and figure out if I want to keep it. If not I can get a full refund. The problem is it only has 9 bars with 47K miles on it. I knew that when they dropped it off but with the ability to get my money back, I wanted to check the battery stats to see if it might qualify for a battery replacement. If I am confident it will lose it's 9th bar before it's in service date, I will definitely keep the car. I got a decent deal on it and a new battery would make it a killer deal.
Anywho I fired up Leaf Spy today and the stats, for which I did a double and triple check, have me completely stumped. According to the battery stats it shouldn't even have 9 bars. Can anyone make sense of this? Am I missing something? Does it need to be fully charged before taking the readings?
Note the car has a manufactured date of 02/13, so it likely has some fairly old battery chemistry. The in-service date is 07/13. Regular battery check-ups have been performed (according the Carfax) and it was driven mainly in CA with a brief stint in AZ.
So brief background is I am currently testing out a 2013 Leaf SV. It was dropped off to me today in order for me to test drive it for 7 days and figure out if I want to keep it. If not I can get a full refund. The problem is it only has 9 bars with 47K miles on it. I knew that when they dropped it off but with the ability to get my money back, I wanted to check the battery stats to see if it might qualify for a battery replacement. If I am confident it will lose it's 9th bar before it's in service date, I will definitely keep the car. I got a decent deal on it and a new battery would make it a killer deal.
Anywho I fired up Leaf Spy today and the stats, for which I did a double and triple check, have me completely stumped. According to the battery stats it shouldn't even have 9 bars. Can anyone make sense of this? Am I missing something? Does it need to be fully charged before taking the readings?
Note the car has a manufactured date of 02/13, so it likely has some fairly old battery chemistry. The in-service date is 07/13. Regular battery check-ups have been performed (according the Carfax) and it was driven mainly in CA with a brief stint in AZ.