Hello,
I was hoping that I could get some advice from the community. I went looking at a 2013 Leaf SL today in the greater Chicago area. The dealership has it listed for about $10,300 and also listed it as a Certified Pre-Owned vehicle. However, they would like an additional $750 for that.
Here is my issue: I bought a wifi OBD2 dongle and also Leaf Spy to check out the battery. However, when I got to the dealership, I was unable to get all of that to work together. I don’t know whether it was a set up issue, or whether the dongle is broken. In any event, I couldn’t get a reading of the battery. It was showing 12 bars on the dash for what that is worth.
I told the salesman that I would not buy that day. As I was leaving, the manager chased me out to the parking lot and asked what it would take to sell the car that day. I told him that that wasn’t going to happen but my main issue was uncertainty about the state of the battery health. I couldn’t get leaf spy to work and there was no battery report. He offered to email me a battery report and also reduce the price of the car a bit.
Here is my question: How accurate is the battery report that the dealer provides? It says, battery capacity is 12 bars, range is 82 miles, there are 5 stars for charging and driving and 4 stars for storage. Is this sufficient to make any kind of informed purchase decision?
Any input or advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
I was hoping that I could get some advice from the community. I went looking at a 2013 Leaf SL today in the greater Chicago area. The dealership has it listed for about $10,300 and also listed it as a Certified Pre-Owned vehicle. However, they would like an additional $750 for that.
Here is my issue: I bought a wifi OBD2 dongle and also Leaf Spy to check out the battery. However, when I got to the dealership, I was unable to get all of that to work together. I don’t know whether it was a set up issue, or whether the dongle is broken. In any event, I couldn’t get a reading of the battery. It was showing 12 bars on the dash for what that is worth.
I told the salesman that I would not buy that day. As I was leaving, the manager chased me out to the parking lot and asked what it would take to sell the car that day. I told him that that wasn’t going to happen but my main issue was uncertainty about the state of the battery health. I couldn’t get leaf spy to work and there was no battery report. He offered to email me a battery report and also reduce the price of the car a bit.
Here is my question: How accurate is the battery report that the dealer provides? It says, battery capacity is 12 bars, range is 82 miles, there are 5 stars for charging and driving and 4 stars for storage. Is this sufficient to make any kind of informed purchase decision?
Any input or advice on this would be greatly appreciated.