Nissan Leaf

Hi folks, I have a 152 Leaf 24, 170K Km, battery is @ 76%ish.

Have read on here that there was an update that brought a bit of life back to the battery? Any ideas how I find out of the update was applied to mine? what info should I look for and how do I find it?

Cheers.

The update was only for 30kWh Leaf. Your battery percentage looks correct for age and mileage.

I have a 2014 leaf, running great, not a bother on it.

One thing that happens essentially 95% of the time is when I reverse, it makes this 'clunk' noise - like something is caught or trapped or stuck. The clunk sound seems to come from the back left (I think anyways)

It can happen if parked up for 2 weeks or 2 minutes. I have parked it up overnight with foot pedal brake not engaged on purpose to see if that makes a difference.....no.

I put it in reverse, its fine for first bit of a second, then after about 1 second, the clunk happens, can be one clunk or a series of clunks, only happens in reverse.

I have brought it to 2 different mechanics and they could not find an issue

Has anyone here experienced this? Hopefully my clunk description is ok, not sure what else to call it

As in the thread depth - yeah, still decent

Noted. So you reckon a change of tyres could be a potential fix. What do you mean by ‘fat’ back tyres?

im my simple mind, tyre condition never entered my head, just like something caught or stuck more so

Would changing the tyres really get rid of this strange clunk

Like sometimes it feels I have to press the accelerator a bit harder to make it move in reverse to get past the clunk

Tyre flat spot??

Thanks. I think it’s like my issue. It seems that Spacers seemed to be the fix.  But this lad spent a long time trying to fix it and 5 trips to a dealership etc. 

also mentioned during the thread was have you checked disk brakes,  strut bolts, rusted coils spring, front subframe bolts, front strut mount, strut bearings - so lots of potential places to check, didn’t see any mention of changing the tyres. 

Thank you. Yeah post number 9 seems to be most like my issue.

post number 9 fix below, I wonder what is ‘lightly’ applying the footbrake, how many clicks should it be 🤔

“ I thought as others that corrosion is the problem so I lightly applied the footbrake and travelled 2-300 yards down the road, released foot brake, now the problem is gone so it would appear that it is corrosion on the brake drum that causes this issue.”

hello. I have that fix done since about 3 years ago. Thanks for the comment though.

Thank you. But I’m still unsure how hard to press down the foot brake.

the above is about a “parking brake break in” I can give it a try but is this what my issue even is.

That's hilarious!! How does one initially calibrate the foot to apply the necessary lb-f required for this procedure?

Regarding the strut covers, I'm not aware of any strut mountings failing because of corrosion in that spot. Depending on how you apply a cover you can also trap water and/or condensation underneath the cover which can exacerbate the problem.

I just left it the way it is.

Just reading this now. It's unlikely to have anything to do with strut covers, tyres etc., it's almost certainly a rusting parking brake rubbing against the disc. As Ghost said, lots of old Leafs have the issue, including my own. You can do a simple test to check. When you park up tonight don't engage the parking brake. If you reverse out tomorrow and it doesn't squeak/ clunk it's your parking brake.

There's a video on YouTube showing how to dismantle it and lubricate to fix the issue.

I’ve read a number of pages around the charging issue of Nissan leaf.

Could someone tell me the current availability of the CHAdeMO at charging stations in Ireland? And also how fast would a 2020 leaf 40kw charge to 80% - at these stations -is it about 45 mins?

Finally the real life range of a 2020 Leaf in Kms?

thanks in advance

Ah brilliant Jasonb - many thanks for that.

Ive been flipping between leaf and ID3 secondhand in my mind - id3 in general is at least 3-4k more expensive - maybe it’s penny wise pound foolish in the medium term to go with leaf now, I dunno.

It’s unlikely I’ll be doing long journeys in the leaf (ie greater than 150k in a day ) so I’m warming to the idea of a leaf with its reduced upfront cost.

I still think everything is still over priced though but if sales of new EVs don’t take off soon, this situation will remain for a number of years me thinks.

If I get anywhere’s decent trade in on my very old car I think I’ll probably say yes to a leaf - though I might try selling privately to see what the market says- let’s see what the coming weeks bring- thanks again