mentaluproar
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- Jan 5, 2016
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I had an incident where the battery level on my leaf when into a nosedive while driving. I took measurements from leaf spy and brought them with me to the dealer. They found a few cells that were aging faster than the others but were still within spec. I'm at 75k miles and have 11 bars. The pack has aged very well, but those few cells are making this car unpredictable. The dealer flashed an upgrade to the PDM, told me too beat the holy **** out of the battery until I get a warning from the computer, then bring it back for the warrantee covered repair. I then paid for this and drove the screwed up car home. They apparently needed to recalibrate the brakes after screwing with firmware and didn't do it, so the brakes behaved unpredictably until a google search showed me how to recalibrate them myself. Totally worth paying for.
Just last night, I'm on the freeway driving home and get the low battery warning. That's fine. I can make it home with what's left comfortably. I end up getting off the freeway much sooner and coasting into a dealership to charge instead. It went into nosedive again. In less than 2 miles I went from mid teens to - - - on the battery level. When I coasted in, I read 7 gids. This is getting dangerous. It dropped so far and so suddenly, I don't think it would have even hit turtle.
Is there anyone I can talk to who can be the voice of reason and just say "yea, this is going to be covered in a few months anyway, let's just do it now?" There's plenty of power left in that pack but those few degraded cells make it so I can't use the rest of the damn pack.
Just last night, I'm on the freeway driving home and get the low battery warning. That's fine. I can make it home with what's left comfortably. I end up getting off the freeway much sooner and coasting into a dealership to charge instead. It went into nosedive again. In less than 2 miles I went from mid teens to - - - on the battery level. When I coasted in, I read 7 gids. This is getting dangerous. It dropped so far and so suddenly, I don't think it would have even hit turtle.
Is there anyone I can talk to who can be the voice of reason and just say "yea, this is going to be covered in a few months anyway, let's just do it now?" There's plenty of power left in that pack but those few degraded cells make it so I can't use the rest of the damn pack.