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Post by lesmando24 on Jul 2, 2019 18:45:47 GMT 11
I took my LEAF to Moorooka Nissan and they found a sagging cell, so the pack needs to be opened and modules removed for rebalancing (saggy module and the one either side). Data is then sent to Nissan Japan for analysis and required actions. Labour will be $500 - $1000, not sure on the module price if it needs replacing. See what they find Monday / Tuesday. Did you have any luck with single cell swap? Nope, it failed. Every time a cell was rebalanced, they found more that were sagging. They replaced many and it restored the regen, but not the capacity. Nissan ended up replacing the whole pack.
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Post by foggy on Apr 1, 2020 16:45:53 GMT 11
Iom at about 80,000k and have 8 bars of battery left. The gold coast`s first leaf is otherwise as perfect as it left the show room about 2012.
My understanding is that the trade in price is somewhere around the price Nissan would charge for battery swap. This would seem to me to be saying that about 8 years ago Nissan sold a car for 56k that is pretty much a use till the batteries run out proposition! Very different idea than the stated meaning of the letters that make up its name? L-E-A-F affordable and environmental?
It looks a lot like unless some rabbit comes out of some hat, {Lots of people crash their leafs and 2nd hand batteries become available cheap enough #}, that my car`s only value is as a display in some as yet unfounded museum of the Gold Coasts motoring history! To rub salt into that, Nissan are trying to sell me the new model! They tell me they aren't stocking any batteries in Australia because "the packs have not needed repair". They also say that they do not believe anyone but them can or should open the battery pack! I have to say that the optimism displayed in some of the 2015 posts about the excitement of looking forward to being able to upgrade to modern longer range packs looks childishly naive in today's reality.
Why is it not obvious to Nissan that if these cars can be economically re-batteryed, their resale price would be where this otherwise excellent bit of automotive technology should be , and we could all look at the new model as a feasible proposition? # it would seem from experience so far, that even another 2nd hand pack might not have enough good cells left to be useful?
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Post by Cachexian (Gordon) on Apr 2, 2020 22:38:06 GMT 11
Foggy, This is exactly why I sold my LEAF and bought a Tesla. The promised charging infrastructure never came and Nissan Australia don't stand behind this product.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2020 11:10:42 GMT 11
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Post by chuq on May 12, 2022 0:25:36 GMT 11
I'm looking for input on this analysis which I've done on my Leaf. 2012 model, I bought it in May 2016, I only started using LeafSpy just over a year ago - so there is a mix of sources. Red dots are my observations of the battery bars dropping. The faint red line is the trend line. Blue dots are my more granular data from recent times - sourced from LeafSpy. The faint blue line is the trend line. Interestingly enough the LeafSpy % has gone up and down, possibly climate related. Both lines have been extended past the current date to approx 4 years into the future. Any thoughts as to which is more accurate? Asking on behalf of whoever I sell it to. Obviously I'm regretting not having LeafSpy data for longer!
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Post by rusdy on May 18, 2022 13:04:38 GMT 11
Any thoughts as to which is more accurate? Asking on behalf of whoever I sell it to. For yours, the blue line is more accurate (i.e. long term). I'm guessing you probably don't use it that much (and/or shallow cycles only), hence the BMS estimate is struggling to keep up. 5% a year for gen-1 leaf is average. Here's my long term data (red line was my old battery, where as purple is my replaced battery by Nissan Australia):
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