Recent content by kingjamez

I still don't know what happened in my case, but looking at my logs, I could have known that something was up the same day I bought it. The first drive was 60Ah, the next reading that same day (the drive home) was 58Ah... that's a huge drop for 2 hours of change. I didn't look at LeafSpy after...

Right, in my case I don't "know" that my BMS was reset, only that it is acting just like the BMS from the car that was reset. What additional testing can I do within leafspy to figure out what is going on? BTW: 55.75Ah SOH: 84% as of today.. the tanking continues. Interestingly, the uptick...

Do you mean for miles too? Unlikely, I saw the carfax report and everything looked good (except that it came from Georgia, like all off-lease cars seem to recently). -Jim

My car has 20500 miles on it now and it clearly had some manipulation of the Ah reading before I bought it. My curve looks very similar to the first part of AntronX's curve which means that I could have months of continual "virtual" degradation. Fortunately, if I follow the same path as...

Wow, this is enlightening. I went into purchasing a leaf with the belief that Leafspy would tell me the real state of the battery pack. That appears to be false. That's disappointing, I passed on a '15 to get my '14 when it appeared that the '14 had a better battery. It's fairly clear that the...

Down to 56.0Ah on the drive home tonight. I'm in free fall it seems. -Jim

When driving it home from the dealer, I did a QC from ~40%->80% on the 60 mile trip home. Other than that, I've averaged about 20 miles a day on weekdays where I charge every other day and 40-50 miles on weekends. Most charging has been done at L1, with a couple of L2 charges. I had one day...

AH=56.17 and Hx=83.52. I didn't take a screen shot while at the dealer so I don't know what these were two weeks ago. No bars dropped... Yet Edit: I just looked back through my leafspy logs. When I bought it on the 8th of March leafspy reported 60.08 Ah. The the next day was 58.6, 5 days...

I bought a used 2014 leaf a couple of weeks ago. I went to the dealer and used Leafspy to pick the car with the best battery. I found a 2014 that showed 92% SOH and was quite satisfied. I've since driven it about 600 miles and have been charging it at L1. Two days after buying it the SOH had...

I've got a '14 with very similar battery stats (88% SOH with 21000 miles, 10/14 manufacture date). I find it very interesting that your battery has stayed so consistent over time, and seemed to have improved after having sat for a year unused. Thanks for the updates. -Jim

Trying to sell it in a particular location doesn't make much sense to me in the internet age. Work out shipping (it's easy) and post it on eBay for the world to compete for. -Jim

I'd expect a large drop off post September '17 when the leaf 2 comes out with double the range. The car's won't actually be less useful, but the perception of a far lower range vehicle will hurt the resale price. I didn't buy my leaf expecting to sell it, I'll use it until it no longer meets my...

To the OP: For me, I wouldn't buy either of those cars. The one with the freakin fantastic battery doesn't have QC, which is a must for me. The other has unusual battery degradation. You should be able to find a 14' with 90%+ SOH with QC for the same or less money if you have the time to be...

Why do you say that? I'm not trying to argue, genuinely curious. The 14's have a better battery chemistry than previous models and a BMS that will mostly protect the batteries from intentional damage. I suppose you could intentionally run it past turtle mode, have it towed to a QC station...

Not the greatest video, but this guy's approach will probably be successful for answering your questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ySmuVFDK8E -Jim