Recent content by speedymike

FWIW, I bought the leaf that sat for a year with about 10k miles for $18k. It was down one bar and lost another within two months. Maximum practical range is 70 miles (45mph mostly) or 60 miles freeway (65mph). Having said that my wife said tonight that the leaf is one of the best cars I...

Thanks. Sounds like my leaf then is down 9.2% from original. Time to start saving for that new battery.

Dash on '12 SL says charged to 100% but Leaf Spy indicates only to 90.8%. Charger will not allow more (will not switch to charge mode to allow more). How can I charge all the way?

Thanks for the info. Guess I'll have to recheck it.

Ok, I think I figured it out ( must the Phoenix heat, right;-)). Gids float with charge so need to have dealer fully charge car. My last reading after long test drive was 135 gids, 48%. Can I infer that max gids might be 281? (135/48*100)

Both dealers started coming down in price so did another test drive on the one that sat for a long time. This time I brought obd2 dongle and Leaf Spy as was suggested. However, the gid level started at only 171 and continued to drop throughout test drive. It finished at 135 gids when I turned...

Thanks so much for the helpful responses!

In my situation my tax obligation will not be close to $7,500 therefore it represents a cost for a very similar vehicle to previous years. Given my annual mileage (2,000?) a cheaper used vehicle will be fine but I totally concur that if someone will owe enough taxes then by all means go new.

Neither is CPO.

Well, I on the low mileage one I offered $18,000 (more in line with blue book and vmr) and the lowest he went is $19,277. That ends that. In a day or two may take a shot at the other.

In answer to an earlier question, the low mileage leaf is marketed at $19,997. The high mileage leaf is below Blue Book at $16,900.

Thanks for the responses. I just ordered a ELM327 bluetooth dongle. The second car mentioned spent its life thus far in San Diego. The first car concerns me in that a year of sitting may have had an effect that won't show up on any kind of scanning tool. In test driving on a whim, I was...

My wife and I are retired and rarely travel more than 5 miles away. As urbanites everything is so close to us. Thus even though we live SE of Phoenix we think a leaf is a good fit. We are considering two 2012 Leaf SL's. One sat for 6 months, leased for one year (9,000 miles), then went to...