So, it was Willie2's fault? Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 4, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Dennis Miles via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) > > _______________________________________________ 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)
