I would suspect that it was the service manager, at your dealership, which made the determination. Did you take the Leaf to another dealer and complain, "Range is too short and doesn't seem to meet factory advertised minimum specifications?" Your stating that the battery is "bad" only puts the service manager on the defensive. The Mechanic / Technician is who's opinion the manager will rely upon, not the vehicle driver or owner. Many times with many brands a warranty replacement (in my experience) is refused by one dealership and approved by another.
*Dennis Lee Miles * *Director **E.V.T.I. Inc.* *E-Mail:* *[email protected]* <[email protected]> *Phone #* *(863) 944-9913* Dade City, Florida 33523 USA On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Willie2 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with almost all you said. > > > On 06/04/2014 12:46 PM, Lee Hart via EV wrote: > >> >> That said, what isn't included here is the replacement of the EV's costly >>> battery, which costs anywhere between $12,000 and $13,000 >>> >> >> BZZZZZT!!! First, the battery is warranted for 8 years and 100k miles. It >> won't cost a cent to replace if it fails before then. Second, it is >> extremely unlikely that it will cost that much to replace the battery in an >> 8-year-old Leaf, as there will be plenty of sources of used one. >> > > I bought my Leaf with no great battery concern. I had the attitude that > "Nissan must know what they're doing". I expected the battery to last 5+ > years at which time I expected there would be cheaper, better, and higher > capacity replacement batteries available. After two years, I was extremely > disappointed to find that the Leaf battery would no longer carry me where I > needed to go. Though my range decreased over 30%, Nissan refused to fix > it, saying "the battery is fine". With the Leaf's extremely crappy > instrumentation, there is no quantitative measure of capacity available to > the Leaf driver. So, Nissan is able to make any capacity judgment they > wish. If they wish to avoid their warranty obligations, they can. And do. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140604/60eda476/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
