NocturnalWalt
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- Dec 2, 2015
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Unlike the 3NA0D LBC firmware that you're clearly becoming very familiar with, the 24 & 30kWh AZE0 LBC firmwares don't allow the capacity bars to be restored - but they can easily be reduced lower. Looking at 4 bars on the cluster is obviously annoying, but you could reduce to 0 bars (by changing the SOH value that is used only for the bars) which would have no negative impact. I've done this before. Realistically the bars only served a purpose for Nissan's warranty criteria and once the warranty has expired as all ZE0 & AZE0 cars have it only serves as a constant reminder that your car isn't brand new anymore. At least on a ZE1, the capacity bars are on a screen that you need to navigate to rather than being in your face every day. Yes you could certainly do firmware patches for all of the effected AZE0 firmwares that allows the bars to be reset to 12, but would that even be a good thing? There will always be some less than honest people wanting to misrepresent cars for resale. There are certainly valid reasons to want to reset the SoH - i.e. after replacing cells. But perhaps a better solution would be to make your app always set the capacity bars to zero at the same time as the reset - which also makes it clear that the car has a non-standard battery pack.
Also, regarding your previous VCM question, no you don't need to worry about pairing keys etc after a VCM update. If you still want to try this then I could supply in a format ready for Consult to use if that's easiest for you. The way I look at it is updating the VCM is best practice anyway as earlier VCM versions were pretty buggy, although admittedly that is less of an issue on a Aus spec car as none of these shipped with the really old firmware versions. In theory the Nissan dealers looking after these cars when they were near new and under warranty should have updated these car's themselves, but unfortunately that isn't always the case - some dealers were more onto it than others.
