Nissan Leaf

Assuming your existing car was worth say €2K before the upgrade, it is now standing you about €7K. Would you not have been better off just buying a newer used EV ?

On the subject of leaky Leafs, just discovered our 2015 is allowing rainwater in somewhere and it’s pooling in the back right corner of the trunk (soaked the underside of the boot floor soundproofing). I’ve checked behind the taillights and don’t think it’s getting in there (fitted new washers anyway). I know the rear vents inside the rear bumper are also potential culprits, but some of the bolts on the bumper are almost impossible to turn and I’m not going to risk not being able to get the bumper back on again 😆

Would I be better bringing it to a panel shop/crash repair place to have a look than bring it to the dealer (who suggests it’ll cost €270 just to remove the inside boot liners to inspect it!).

Any experience/ideas?

I’ve one of these borked L30s parked on the drive. Had been tempted to have the battery looked at but as the car has done over 200k km. needs a bit of body and suspension work I decided to take it off the road. Is scrapping it my only option? It’s got 4 almost new tyres on it which are probably worth more than what a scrappy would give for it!!

And replacing a car in a known good state, with a random one from the market which may have hidden issues, does?

That's the beauty of the Leaf. It's a very simple and robust car mechanically, and as there is no battery cooling swapping the pack is really simple. The packaging is pretty good too. The only genuinely bad design is the original heating system on the 2011-131.

The face only it's mother can love. But there was a functional reason for the shape of the lamps.

The only way to really check if it's the cable is to try another one.

Cheers, so I'm not doing anything wrong with how I'm attempting to release it?

The release latch on the type 1 has a signal wire so when you release the cable it signals the stopping the charge. Could be an issue with the charging point not stopping the charge.

Yeah I stop the charge and wait for it to show stopped, its stuck in the car, the charger doesn't show the + to release until it's removed from the car. I've tried the lock button in every position and pressed the unlock and charge unlock button multiple times but it just does the 3 beeps in quick succession every time I try to release the cable. I don't touch the Zappi again and just lock, unlock, press the charge port unlock try release the cable a few times and it randomly works.

Do you have any colleagues with an EV that charge there as well? Maybe you can swap out cables and try different chargers. So you can suss out if it is the cable, the car or the charger.

From reading online a bit it could be the 12v battery.