My HVAC failed after 2 weeks of buying a new Leaf. Not sure if i am unlucky or what but Heating in my Leaf stopped working after a few weeks. I am in Denver, Colorado but even in Colorado winters, Heated seats and steering wheel was enough heating for me, so I had the temperature turned down to 60 to get a better range and never noticed that the heating had gone bad. Then the other day my friend was with me and it was a bad cold evening so he asked me to turn the heating up and there you go... no heating... new car... what an embarrassment, i could not believe it :shock: . I looked at the power consumption and even when i turned it up to 90 degrees, there was no power consumption from HVAC.
Took it to the Nissan dealer the next day, left the car there, they were puzzled as well. This is a new car for them. Although they have a certified Leaf technician, but he was like... "man i will have to call the experts to figure out". They gave me a courtesy Nissan rogue and i am pumping gas again
, what a bummer.
It has been more than a week now. They say, after consulting, running diagnostics, they had to tear it down and are replacing the DC distributor(DC-to-DC convertor) and the Control box for Heating. The DC-to-DC convertor has fuse for every component it sends power to, so maybe the fuse for heating went bad ... and the heating control box maybe fried. God know what happened, but I gathered from the dealer that, it looks like Nissan has reports of heating not working well in colder climates and they might be replacing that in the next model or do a recall for previous models.
My Leaf meanwhile has been torn down...parts replaced...freon has to be refilled...bubbles to be removed from that gas... i could not bear the sight.
I hope to get it back on the 28th. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
I might search the internet for the "Lemon Law" which defines how long a new car has to be "in repairs" during warranty to be declared a lemon. Why... why me....
Took it to the Nissan dealer the next day, left the car there, they were puzzled as well. This is a new car for them. Although they have a certified Leaf technician, but he was like... "man i will have to call the experts to figure out". They gave me a courtesy Nissan rogue and i am pumping gas again
, what a bummer.It has been more than a week now. They say, after consulting, running diagnostics, they had to tear it down and are replacing the DC distributor(DC-to-DC convertor) and the Control box for Heating. The DC-to-DC convertor has fuse for every component it sends power to, so maybe the fuse for heating went bad ... and the heating control box maybe fried. God know what happened, but I gathered from the dealer that, it looks like Nissan has reports of heating not working well in colder climates and they might be replacing that in the next model or do a recall for previous models.
My Leaf meanwhile has been torn down...parts replaced...freon has to be refilled...bubbles to be removed from that gas... i could not bear the sight.
I hope to get it back on the 28th. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
I might search the internet for the "Lemon Law" which defines how long a new car has to be "in repairs" during warranty to be declared a lemon. Why... why me....
