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Post by EVangelist on Feb 16, 2017 11:46:07 GMT 11
Our Leaf was parked in a car park on Tuesday and someone who was trying to park in the vacant spot next to it somehow slammed their foot on the accelerator instead of brake and not only managed to bang up the front of our car, they drove over the dividing garden bed into the car parked opposite ours, and hit it with such force that it spun around and smacked into the car next to it. That car had to be towed! There were plenty of witnesses and the perpetrator was pretty embarrassed by it all, so it will all be covered by their insurance (company car, as it turned out). Our Leaf was thankfully driveable, the damage is basically superficial, but after being sent to the AAMI authorised repairer yesterday, they said that a new bumper needs to be ordered and apparently Nissan mandates that only authorised Leaf repairers can do the work, and that SJN is the only dealer in Sydney that has authority to source the parts. They'll handle all the logistics of that, so it's transparent to us, but I have no idea whether the bumper is something in stock in Australia or whether SJN will have to import it from Japan and how long it will all take. We could be without our Leaf for weeks!   |
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Post by Phoebe on Feb 16, 2017 11:54:01 GMT 11
That must be a new rule by Nissan. I had to have a panel replaced on my LEAF shortly after I bought it and it was done by a local bloke. He had no trouble getting the part.
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Post by stewartm on Feb 16, 2017 11:57:11 GMT 11
Sorry to hear that, I had a new rear bumper after being rear ended at lights, was here in a week and was done at the local approved AAMI panel shop.
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Post by rusdy on Feb 16, 2017 13:44:48 GMT 11
Ouch! Hope yours won't take too long! When mine banged up from behind, it took me 3 months!!! 2 months waiting for parts, 2 weeks repair and about a week for recommissioned by Nissan. And countless more hours fighting with the perpetrator insurance claiming rental car  . Too bad I can't claim fuel. I spent 350 bucks more petrol than I should Attachments:
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Post by EVangelist on Feb 17, 2017 9:11:52 GMT 11
Ouch! Hope yours won't take too long! When mine banged up from behind, it took me 3 months!!! 2 months waiting for parts, 2 weeks repair and about a week for recommissioned by Nissan. And countless more hours fighting with the perpetrator insurance claiming rental car . Too bad I can't claim fuel. I spent 350 bucks more petrol than I should We don't have rental car on our policy but we should be able to claim the cost on the at-fault's policy. There are many court case precedents that have proved liability in this situation. We've hired a compact car for a week at just on $200, hopefully we'll find out in the next day or so how long they think repairs will take. We can extend the rental if needed, which I suspect will be extremely likely! |
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Post by EVangelist on Mar 6, 2017 22:15:18 GMT 11
We finally got our Leaf back on Saturday, looking all pristine again. We asked the repair guy whether he charged it up, he looked at us a bit blankly. We explained it was an electric car, but he thought we were talking about hybrids such as the Prius etc and we explained no, it doesn't have a petrol engine in it.
He asked us how we charge it, do we need to go to special charging stations and we explained we just plug it into a 15A powerpoint in the garage, nothing special. And then he asked us again about petrol and we again said, no, you can't put petrol in it, it is totally electric! We turned it on and told him the "engine" was now running. He put his hand on the bonnet and I told him, no, it doesn't get hot. He said he wanted to feel the vibration and I explained it's an electric motor, it doesn't vibrate!
He was totally bamboozled and said he'd never had one of these at the shop before. I told him it's the way of the future and drove off. He was a lovely bloke (we got to keep the left over matching paint so that we can touch up a few other unrelated scrapes on it), but gosh it took a while for the penny to drop!
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Post by duncan on Mar 16, 2017 20:22:09 GMT 11
One thing to keep in mind with LEAF repairs is that the service manual says not to bake the car in the paint oven (presumably due to heat impact on the battery).
We recently had our front bar redone (not an accident, just repairing general wear and tear) and had to remind the shop to take the bar off to paint it.
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Post by EVangelist on Mar 17, 2017 16:59:06 GMT 11
One thing to keep in mind with LEAF repairs is that the service manual says not to bake the car in the paint oven (presumably due to heat impact on the battery). Our car was flat-bedded from the first AAMI specified repairer to this one because they were authorised to work on the Leaf while the first AAMI repairer was not. So presumably they did the right thing with it but honestly we have no idea whether they did or didn't. How hot do paint ovens get? I can't imagine they'd be worse than the car sitting in the sun on a very hot day, otherwise the tyres would melt?! |
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Post by duncan on Mar 17, 2017 20:14:55 GMT 11
Awesome question...no idea and a quick search didn't answer it...but Nissan did go to the trouble to put it in the workshop manual
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Post by Jim Hare on May 16, 2017 15:51:51 GMT 11
Just had ours evaluated and told the guy about not baking it. He said the bake oven is only 40° so no more than a normal summer day in Sydney! One thing to keep in mind with LEAF repairs is that the service manual says not to bake the car in the paint oven (presumably due to heat impact on the battery). Our car was flat-bedded from the first AAMI specified repairer to this one because they were authorised to work on the Leaf while the first AAMI repairer was not. So presumably they did the right thing with it but honestly we have no idea whether they did or didn't. How hot do paint ovens get? I can't imagine they'd be worse than the car sitting in the sun on a very hot day, otherwise the tyres would melt?! |
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. Too bad I can't claim fuel. I spent 350 bucks more petrol than I should 
