I bought a used 2015 Nissan Leaf S that I am now on my third day of driving. Love the car so far, learning more every day. This is the most modern car I have ever owned, so I'm still learning how to deal with steering wheel controls and on-board touch screens. So to start with, a couple of questions for you veterans out there...mostly trivial.
Nissan Connect EV doesn't seem to want to connect for me. The online chat tech says it should work, the phone is setup to work with the Bluetooth (made hands-free calls already), and I have created an online account with the portal service and installed the app. I just can't seem to get the app to talk to the car. Any thoughts? As a side issue, this app has terrible reviews, is there something else better? I looked at Leafspy, but that required me to buy an ODB2 Bluetooth connector...which I could do...but thought I would ask.
As it is winter and I am in NY. Therefore, I am interested in timing the environmental controls to warm things up 30 minutes or so before I get in while the car is still plugged in. Outside of a seemingly non-functional Nissan Connect, is there a another way to do this? Manually, I can't seem to trigger any of the environmental controls while the car is powered off and plugged in, and it won't power up until I remove the plug.
I like to listen to podcasts. I currently have them on a USB stick. Whenever I am turning a corner I seem to manage to flick the change track control on the steering wheel which resets the podcast. With no granular MP3 type controls, I then have to listen from the beginning again, or go onto the next one. Outside of changing 35 year driving habits, any ideas on how to deal with that? Is there a way to selectively disable to steering wheel controls? Looking at a Bluetooth receiver for the aux port, but again, thought I might ask.
I'm sure I will come up with some more dumb questions as things progress. I did do a forum search on these and nothing popped up for me, so I apologize in advance if these are HEAVILY covered topics that I didn't see.
I am really interested in hearing from brand new Leaf owners who had never owned an EV before. What kind of small problems did you run up against? Range issues for example, which is well covered in the forum, is a large problem, what trivial problems did you find a way to deal with?
-Thank you in advance for any replies/help.
Nissan Connect EV doesn't seem to want to connect for me. The online chat tech says it should work, the phone is setup to work with the Bluetooth (made hands-free calls already), and I have created an online account with the portal service and installed the app. I just can't seem to get the app to talk to the car. Any thoughts? As a side issue, this app has terrible reviews, is there something else better? I looked at Leafspy, but that required me to buy an ODB2 Bluetooth connector...which I could do...but thought I would ask.
As it is winter and I am in NY. Therefore, I am interested in timing the environmental controls to warm things up 30 minutes or so before I get in while the car is still plugged in. Outside of a seemingly non-functional Nissan Connect, is there a another way to do this? Manually, I can't seem to trigger any of the environmental controls while the car is powered off and plugged in, and it won't power up until I remove the plug.
I like to listen to podcasts. I currently have them on a USB stick. Whenever I am turning a corner I seem to manage to flick the change track control on the steering wheel which resets the podcast. With no granular MP3 type controls, I then have to listen from the beginning again, or go onto the next one. Outside of changing 35 year driving habits, any ideas on how to deal with that? Is there a way to selectively disable to steering wheel controls? Looking at a Bluetooth receiver for the aux port, but again, thought I might ask.
I'm sure I will come up with some more dumb questions as things progress. I did do a forum search on these and nothing popped up for me, so I apologize in advance if these are HEAVILY covered topics that I didn't see.
I am really interested in hearing from brand new Leaf owners who had never owned an EV before. What kind of small problems did you run up against? Range issues for example, which is well covered in the forum, is a large problem, what trivial problems did you find a way to deal with?
-Thank you in advance for any replies/help.