We just bought a 2024 leaf SV plus with 6200 miles on it. I’m wondering what I have to do in terms of maintenance to keep the warranty in good standing.

I have a very degraded 2016 24 kWh Leaf in Tucsonz AZ but it largely meets distance needs for what I think was a fair price.

I know the battery is bad and I'm not expecting a BMS reset to magically restore capacity. I'm trying to figure out whether the BMS has become badly calibrated. We have hot summers here. I was concerned that the heat would continue to do its thing, but to my surprise during the summer months my guess o meter and battery percent consumption seemed consistent. I noticed in September that seemed to change after it started to cool down so I did a new reading.

LeafSpy history:

May: 38.76% SOH / 22.3 Ah

Sept: 27.3% / \~17 Ah

Now: 25.03% / 15.54 Ah

The weird part is SOC, but maybe I don't understand how it works.

Recently the dashboard showed about 10%, while LeafSpy showed 21.5%. I then drove 3.9 miles at low speed(wife took the car out without realizing it didn't charge overnight) and LeafSpy only dropped to 16.1%. Cell spread was still only 44 mV.

Last night the dashboard showed 21%, while LeafSpy showed 39.3%. Cells averaged 3.952V with only a 33 mV spread.

Just as an observation I noticed that that the first 100- 50% drains significantly faster than the 50-20ish range which is usually as low as I take it.

I then measured charging from the wall:

21% → 72% dashboard: 2.04 kWh

72% → 100%: another 1.78 kWh

So only 3.82 kWh from the wall took the dashboard from 21% to 100%, and my understanding is actual energy reaching the battery would be less after charging losses. And my capacity is apparently in the 6.5ish kWh capacity.

The pack seems extremely degraded but reasonably balanced. I don't see an obvious cell falling off a cliff.

Would you reset the BMS at this point and let it relearn the battery? I'm fine with SOH/bars being wrong for a while afterward. I'm mainly interested in whether a relearn might make SOC more representative of actual usable energy.

Getting a message that says update is required but Google Play Store has no update available.

My 2015 Nissan leaf has been great, after more than 9 years of owning it (I bought it with 10K miles on it) it woudl atill charge up to 65 miles range (in reality it was more like 50-55 miles max), and never gave me any issues whatsoever. I intended to keep this car until its range went down to 40 miles maybe even less. And perhaps upgrade the battery later…

However… Over the weekend my wife said the brakes felt weird. I took of for a drive and indeed there was a problem with the brakes. The regen braking seemed to be working fine, but when the brake pads kicked in the pedal would slowly sink to the floor and I’d lose braking power. It was scary at times as it would cause me to overshoot my stop and stop past the sidestreet I was trying to turn into, for example.

I took it in to the shop today and they were able to recreate and verify the issue. They did some troubleshooting and were able to determine that there were no brake fluid leaks, no air in the lines, and the brake fluid was clean (it had been changed in July). They said that the fix would be to replace the master cylinder and the ABS actuator. The cost for this repair would be >$8K, so more than the value of the car, and besides, they can’t find a supplier for a new actuator and not even Nissan has one in stock or for back order.

Is this really how my leaf dies?
Any ideas?

Thank you.

Hey all!

I've had my LEAF, Phoebe, for 11 years. Every fall/winter she kind of struggles with the cold. It hasn't started freezing here yet, though.

Today I went to start my car and it couldn't detect the key fob. Then I pressed the fob to the power button and it started rapidly beeping and saying that I needed to engage the parking break.

My husband and I tried resetting the car a few times by disconnecting the started battery, without any change.

We got it turned all the way off, reconnected the auxiliary battery, and then I decided to plug it in to see if that would help later. Now it isn't charging. The charger isn't reporting any issue or error.

Before I call my local dealership/repair shop, any advice?

Bought 2021 Nissan Leaf SV 39k miles from private party for $12500 in Aug 2021.
June battery software update as mandated by Nissan safety. October 2 when driving car on highway suddenly slowed down and sign pop up SERVICE EV SYSTEM POWER REDUCED, luckily it was close to house so drove in turtle mode parked and tried to charge- could not charge. Tested 12v battery. Next day Called closest Nissan Dealer, service manager asked to drive in turtle mode and drop to dealership or call Nissan Roadside and wait for tow truck since that was Saturday I didn’t wanted to wait for Monday drive and dropped off to dealership. Tuesday morning service manager called Nissan will call me for buyback.
Got email Friday about asking and confirm my info and start process.
Currently leaf mileage is 49758 miles based on your repurchase what maybe there offer for my car. KBB +40% was meant in email
Local dealer has same car model year but 32k miles for $15800 plus fee tax title etc

Thanks for all your help

As posted in other forum.

Wish to hear your opinions on the matter.

Please assume I'm fully capable of repairing it myself.

Reposting for more insight.....

Edited to add that I am in the U.S.

I just found out about a battery recall when I went in for what was supposed to be a 2 to 3 hour visit to address the defective rear seat belt issue. They inspected my car's seat belt and determined that I needed the remedy, but then they said they had to order the part. Why tell me this will be a 2 to 3 hour visit when they don't even stock the parts? And then they mentioned there is also a battery recall; first I had heard of that, not for fires but for sudden loss of charge (?), for which they will need the car for several days to remove and inspect the lithium battery. After reading tons of "buy back" posts here my heart is sinking. I have loved driving my Leaf--I sure hope this does not become a huge thing. Oh, and I told them my tires were leaking air, and though they had the car from Friday through Monday they didn't even look at them. First world problems for sure, but an annoyance anyway.

I have the following on my older leaf 2018:

• Rear Brake pad(s) wearing thin (1.1.13 (a) (ii))
• Front Inner Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened (1.1.14 (a) (ii))
• Rear Inner Brake disc worn, pitted or scored, but not seriously weakened (1.1.14 (a) (ii))
• Offside Front Suspension arm pin or bush worn but not resulting in excessive movement (5.3.4 (a) (i))

I think i can get my MOT pass if i get the rear pads replaced, maybe the suspension arm pin fixed. The rest I guess ill need to break more to make the disks look cleaner.

The hard part is to get any quote from any Nissan delaer for the repair and replacement.

While I can find the parts easy, the labour is not trivial as the dealers say they want their own MOT done or diagnostics fee £180 paid in case thay cant confirm the findings of a non Nissan MOT station... Some places can let go of the diag fees if they can confirm the issues are real and i choose them to fix it, but again I would love to know what I am getting into, so the labour cost.

On the other hand i reed there is a software with OBD required for proper configuration after pad replacement, so non nissan dealer not even qouting most of the time.

Any advice?

Hoping to find a better place than the dealership!

SO and I just got our 2025 Leaf S, CPO’d. The dealer put new tires on after I negotiated it, given the old ones were barely in spec.

Question is, they put on Advanta ER-800 tires, I’m not sure if these meet CPO spec, and I was wondering if any Nissan experts can chime in?

I’d rather have good quality EV tires as Nissan intended, wondering if the dealer would change this if it’s supposed to be to spec for a CPO car.

Anybody else find a solution for the Nissan leaf software showing doors unlocked. Open app can't connect and just never seems to do what it's supposed to do?

I was excited about getting out first electric . I sat in a pals Leaf. But man was it cramped. vertically fine , but I am 6'2 and it is all leg. I couldn't get seat back far enough and my knees were almost hitting the steerer.

Disappointing

Any recommends on an EV that has more room for the long legged?

Anybody else find a solution for the Nissan leaf software showing doors. Open app can't connect and just never seems to do what it's supposed to do?