fooljoe
Well-known member
It blows my mind how this "all or nothing" warranty has been implemented. It makes no sense that someone that drops the 9th bar at 61k miles gets $0 while another owner with an identically defective battery but a few thousand miles less on the odometer gets a $6k battery. It's especially irksome given that prorated warranties like we have with tires are very much a thing - there's plenty of precedent for a warranty that would've actually made sense.
Leafer77, I gotta say you really blew it here. If you monitored your SOH you would've known how close you were to dropping that bar and could've just stopped driving the car and let time and heat do their thing; you had plenty of time to spare. You say you couldn't do that in good conscience - well then you really can't complain (well ok you can complain that the warranty's stupid, but don't act surprised that Nissan wouldn't give you a new battery.) The rules of the game are ridiculous, but they are the rules. Nissan doesn't play the game with any conscience, so why should you?
That said, I wouldn't throw in the towel just yet. Maybe there's still some sort of legal argument to be made (ask a lawyer maybe?), but I would imagine that if you didn't opt out you're pretty much screwed. One thing I don't quite grasp about that though - if you "opted in" (i.e. did nothing) but didn't receive ANYTHING as a benefit, what did you really opt in for? In most class action lawsuits you get a few dollars or something, but in this case there's a new warranty put in place for everybody, regardless of whether they joined the class, so isn't opting in meaningless? (Again we need a lawyer to chime in.)
Aside from the legal fight (which is most likely a loser), I wonder if there might be some hope of qualifying for the 8 year / 100k mile warranty. At some point that defective battery is going to degrade so much as to be completely useless, and that could very well occur before 100k miles. Does anyone have any idea what exactly would trigger that warranty? Instead of just trading the car in, I'd first of course drive it as long as it can get you to work, but when you simply can't use it anymore I'd go out and buy or lease another EV as Tony suggests; but maybe keep this one around, just in case.
Leafer77, I gotta say you really blew it here. If you monitored your SOH you would've known how close you were to dropping that bar and could've just stopped driving the car and let time and heat do their thing; you had plenty of time to spare. You say you couldn't do that in good conscience - well then you really can't complain (well ok you can complain that the warranty's stupid, but don't act surprised that Nissan wouldn't give you a new battery.) The rules of the game are ridiculous, but they are the rules. Nissan doesn't play the game with any conscience, so why should you?
That said, I wouldn't throw in the towel just yet. Maybe there's still some sort of legal argument to be made (ask a lawyer maybe?), but I would imagine that if you didn't opt out you're pretty much screwed. One thing I don't quite grasp about that though - if you "opted in" (i.e. did nothing) but didn't receive ANYTHING as a benefit, what did you really opt in for? In most class action lawsuits you get a few dollars or something, but in this case there's a new warranty put in place for everybody, regardless of whether they joined the class, so isn't opting in meaningless? (Again we need a lawyer to chime in.)
Aside from the legal fight (which is most likely a loser), I wonder if there might be some hope of qualifying for the 8 year / 100k mile warranty. At some point that defective battery is going to degrade so much as to be completely useless, and that could very well occur before 100k miles. Does anyone have any idea what exactly would trigger that warranty? Instead of just trading the car in, I'd first of course drive it as long as it can get you to work, but when you simply can't use it anymore I'd go out and buy or lease another EV as Tony suggests; but maybe keep this one around, just in case.