So, I'm starting to think I might be a victim of a dealership doing the BCM reset trick to make the life meter show 12 bars and then selling me a 2011 that they insisted had a "brand new battery pack" in it. My range has been around 45-55 miles per charge pretty consistently before hitting LBW. Most of my driving is half town, half highway. The car has 48,000 miles on it right now.
I've driven the car approximately 2400 miles since I bought it, and the life meter is already down one bar. I've obtained a service history of the car and there's nothing in it about replacing the pack, only the inverter and intelligent charging system back in Feb of 2014. I've called Nissan EV support, confirmed that the car is battery warranty eligible, and that no pack replacement has been done by any Nissan dealer or authorized service center.
I then bought a bluetooth OBD reader and leaf spy pro, and got these readings off the car after a full night's L2 charge:
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http://i.imgur.com/5BUiJmj.png" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I took the car to the dealer this morning, and paid the $40 battery test fee, and was told "nope, no problems, you're all good", but I suspect that just reads whatever values the BCM tells it (same as the bars on the dash meter), so it's still thinking everything's peachy. I did get a full printout of the service history while I was there.
So, anyone have any advice here? What are my options? Do I try to get the dealer to admit in some provable fashion that they told me it had a new battery at the time of the sale (yes, shame on me for not getting it in writing... my stupidity...) and then start a media shitstorm about it and start talking to a lawyer or what?
I've driven the car approximately 2400 miles since I bought it, and the life meter is already down one bar. I've obtained a service history of the car and there's nothing in it about replacing the pack, only the inverter and intelligent charging system back in Feb of 2014. I've called Nissan EV support, confirmed that the car is battery warranty eligible, and that no pack replacement has been done by any Nissan dealer or authorized service center.
I then bought a bluetooth OBD reader and leaf spy pro, and got these readings off the car after a full night's L2 charge:
http://i.imgur.com/DejwtTq.png" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://i.imgur.com/5BUiJmj.png" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I took the car to the dealer this morning, and paid the $40 battery test fee, and was told "nope, no problems, you're all good", but I suspect that just reads whatever values the BCM tells it (same as the bars on the dash meter), so it's still thinking everything's peachy. I did get a full printout of the service history while I was there.
So, anyone have any advice here? What are my options? Do I try to get the dealer to admit in some provable fashion that they told me it had a new battery at the time of the sale (yes, shame on me for not getting it in writing... my stupidity...) and then start a media shitstorm about it and start talking to a lawyer or what?