Recent content by tonyp

Well final update, the car was finally fixed today 11th May 2016. Its had a new on board charger fitted. I took it to the first rapid charger on my way home (the dealer was 50 miles away) and gave it 15 minutes on the charger. It worked a treat so I'm now a happy Leaf owner again. All in the...

I'm based in the UK and I'm currently in the process of having my OBC replaced under warranty as well. I hope where you are the parts are available, I have been without my car for 5 weeks and counting with no clear date for when the OBC will arrive. I have a few issues with warranty ownership...

Good news Nissan HQ agreed to repair my car under the 5 year warranty (as I suspect we all knew this is what had to happen). At long last the part is on order so I am happy knowing its only going to be about 2 weeks before it arrives. Lets hope this fixes the issue!

Well the fight to take repair cost ownership continues! I have had to submit all the cars servicing/warranty information today as I did not give them the booklet when I dropped the car off. The Nissan dealer has applied to Nissan HQ for the warranty repair so fingers crossed the warranty...

Quick update. Its is the charger and now both dealers are "discussing" who pays for it. I have just read my warranty booklet as has been pointed out here, it is covered under Nissan warranty. I'm going to show them the booklet tomorrow to show its well within the 5 year OEM warranty. Once...

Thank you all for your replies. I had a long conversation today with Nissan today about the fault and claiming process. Upshot is the car fault (be it the ultra capacitor or the charging system) is not covered under OEM warranty for my car in the UK (the car is not 4 years old). They are...

Hi all Firstly thank you for a truly great forum. I am UK based, I have a generation 1 used Leaf, 2012 registration with 12,000 miles and its a superb car. I have had the car 2 months now and for the last 5 weeks the car has been back with the supplying dealer (not Nissan) with a rapid...