Nissan Leaf

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What I mean is that the 24 kWh batteries had the best quality cells and the 30/40 batteries tend to start to suffer from really high internal resistance around 150-200k km mark. That will result in issues with them when they reach high number of charges. But at 50k you should have another 100k km of lifetime left.

To buy or not all hinges on the asking price. No NCT isn’t an issue as long as it’s reflected in the price. If you got it for around €8K you couldn’t go too far wrong.

Random one, has anyone noticed that the quick charger counter on Leaf Spy is incrementing despite never quick charging the car? I bought mine with 160 qc and 6 months later it's at 175. I've only ever charged at home with no public charging, and the L1/L2 looks about right.

How old is your leaf? Our 181 reg back in 2021 when we sold it was at 91% SOH. It had just over 75k odo and the SOH recalculated every 3 months on the dot and went down every single time.

That's a tough place to be. It was the same issue with my 2016 L30 which I drove as a local runaround for 50k kms after it started displaying similar symptoms before it finally packed up a couple of months back and is sitting on drive now effectively scrapped. When I took it to Nissan within battery warranty they didn’t want to know unless I committed to paying big bucks to have it assessed and was told it most likely would require a battery replacement at my expense.

It’s the reason I replaced it with an Ioniq because I didn’t want to give Nissan the satisfaction of spending any more money on their cars!

My L30 is worth feck all so not too pushed about taking it off the road but yours is worth a lot more so your choices are either to pursue Nissan legally or take to an independent EV specialist. There was a discussion on this thread a couple of months back where a poster was quoted approx €4k by an independent to sort out a similar problem with an L40. Another poster took his L40 to England to have is sorted over there for I think approx €2.5k.

No I meant if you were in the person with the 2021 car would you be tempted? Car is obviously worth a decent bit but is fairly useless to them now.

I’ll leave that ethical decision to the person concerned😀

If I had a decent L40 I’d either look to have it repaired by an independent or replace the battery as per @ELM327 above

I don't know why anyone would pay €40000 for a new one. I have one I bought cheap and does what I need but over the years Nissan have done little to address issues. For €40000 do you get a heated windscreen?

Hi all. Looking for a sanity check please. Have a 16 reg Leaf 30kw. 140KM. Battery has been acting up. Now at 8 bars and it died on the motorway the other day. Battery is obviously fecked. Would it be worth 5K to get RangeTherapy to fit a 40KW battery? Rest of car is fine. We did some fast charging on the 30KW but probably 20 times in total in the 6 years that we have had it. Well out of warranty unfortunately so it's either get the 40KW or look at a new car. We do not need it for long drives, if we had 130KM range that would do us.

Thanks for the response. Yeah, I'm not sold on spending 5k on it. I'm in Greystones area if you are any in any way near? You reckon buying another Leaf is the way to go for not much more money?

Although leaf is well suited as a family car, and I have soft spot for them, there is absolutely no need to stick with them. All L30/40/62 models seem to suffer from unstable battery modules in their packs when they age. The only rock solid battery option is the newer 24 kWh pack that was fitted in some car registered as late as 2018 but they have a very poor range in modern standards. Also some of the 30 pack car may masquerade as 24 kWh model, so careful out there.

That being said for a local car, with say up to 80 km a day, even the degraded LEAF30-62 are fine until the pack totally dies. Just ensure you start with the full battery every day and be careful with throttle inputs when you hit about 20% especially in winter.