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FINALLY got the car into Nissan for them to have a look at. They checked it over and came back with "there's nothing wrong with the battery." They also said "the guy who looks after these is away on holiday so we didn't really know what to do" but from what they've been able to check we're doing...

Sorry, I've misled you - it's a 2017 car but MY18, so 40kWh. To be honest it's really dented by trust in Nissan, but if worst comes to worst we may just take whatever deal we can get, and hold out til the Taycan and/or various Audis are available.

We don't have a LeafSpy so no worries there. I've done better than slamming books though: I sent my wife in instead since I can't get away from work at the moment. Everyone but the accountant was out to lunch at the time (sounds promising...) and all he did was try to upsell to a MY17 they had...

Ok thanks for your advice, I think I'll go down to the dealer and start slamming phone books on desks.

Oh awesome, I did wonder about that too. Any way to find out if a reset's been done? I was given a Battery Information Sheet by the dealer when we bought the car that I think was supposed to allay any concerns we may have had about the car. Fortunately I never clean out my laptop bag so I have...

So 8 months on the car has largely been great. My wife uses it for the school and shopping runs all day every day, covering about 40-50 miles per day in stop/start fashion. After we got over the usual range anxiety we started pushing how far we'd travel further and now we barely even think about...

A mate of mine had one or two of his cars featured by RCR but not me, no. The price of petrol has gone insane here over the past couple of years, with the NZD/USD exchange rate heading the wrong way (for NZ at least) coupled with extra fuel levies introduced by the new government and just...

For those wanting to play "my gas costs more than yours" I'm pretty sure NZ is near the head of the pack. I had to drive my Nissan Stagea (basically an Infiniti G35X wagon) on a 540 mile round trip last week and with the various taxes and levies in Auckland I ended up paying the equivalent of...

We've had our Leaf for a couple of months now and our experience has been slightly different. There's a pervasive public air of "EVs are for dolphin-hugging hippies" in New Zealand, but a surprising number of people have a whole lot of questions once they know we have one. It's kind of like...

2013 JDM X - 12V battery died the day after we got the car in June 2018. :lol: The dealer swapped it out with a loaner so they could bench test it and we never heard back from them so we kept the loaner.

I'd use something like the honeycomb plastic sheeting that real estate signs are made out of since it'll be more resistant to water and general wear and tear. In NZ it's called Corflute, not sure what it's called elsewhere. Otherwise, a thin sheet of plywood suitably trimmed in felt or some...

That's a(nother) curse of living in the North Island, our power prices are significantly higher than down there - we're already on the best deal we could find. We're renting at the moment (Hawkes Bay) but once we've found some land to put an old villa on we're going to install as much solar as...

Okay, nearly 4 weeks in and we've very quickly got used to driving an appliance around town. It's working out very nicely for us. Here's some metrics, converted to USD and US Gallons for easy consumption by the majority on here. Power costs around 21c/kWh, which is pretty high compared to what...

Not sure if this will be of any help to you, but in NZ we run 240V AC. My wife covers around 70-80km per day in our 2013 Leaf on her various errands, then we plug the car into a standard wall socket overnight and the battery is full well before she needs it the next morning. We've only had the...

Greetings all. After much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the upward-spiraling price of petrol here in New Zealand, my wife and I recently picked up a JDM 2013 Leaf X, with 43K km (~27K miles) on the odo and 11 bars. I'd already spent some time looking through the threads on here before...