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The battery capacity indicator on Millie, my 2018 Leaf, has dropped from 12 to 11. Is that reasonable and expected for a Leaf that's approximately 5 years old, and in my hands for over 3 years?

Last Sunday, I was watching a screening of Buster Keaton's classic silent, The General, with live organ accompaniment by Robert York at the "Mighty Reuter" of Our Saviour's Lutheran, while out on Junipero Avenue, some hit-and-run driver made a big mess. After the movie, I went out to my car...

On my lunch break today, I was trying to get over to make a right turn, and heard a harsh, shrill, irritating whistle, like either two pipes tuned to beat at around 40Hz, or an electronic simulation of a "pea whistle." I veered off and looked over, and saw another vehicle in the right side...

I now have my Dorman seat heater kit in hand, and I recently viewed some YouTube videos about seat heaters. The instructions in the seat heater kit say to disconnect the 12V battery before starting, and before pulling the seat. But the video linked-to above has, in the notes: and refers to...

Does anybody here know of an easy way to locate the wire coming off of a specific fuse (in this case, most likely the driver-side seat heater fuse) in the interior fusebox? So far, back when I put in my "Flap Ajar" indicator and the dedicated socket for my GPS navigator, I simply tied into the...

A couple of weeks ago, apparently encouraged by my satisfaction with my Leaf (and exercising his tendency to change vehicles as often as some people change underwear), my dad (who lives under the same roof) bought a Kia Niro plug-in hybrid. (Of course, if the model designation had been spelled...

I just took my Leaf in for inspection/PM/brake fluid, and I'm told that the 12V battery is starting to go. Are there any "gotchas" on changing out the 12V battery?

This past Tuesday evening, I put my first significant scratches into my Leaf: I was pulling into my favorite parking space at the Wardlow Blue Line trolley stop (LACMTA), and scraped the plastic side skirting against a protruding bit of curb, just behind the port side front wheel. :( scratched...

I do a search here on keywords "TPMS" and "rotation"; I get conflicting answers. Some of them say that the TPMS has extremely short range pickups at each wheel position, which then connect to whatever wheel sensor is physically closest. Others (particularly in the LeafSPY forum) say the system...

It's a Garmin 65 (the base model, not the Alexa model), and it was my birthday present (my only other birthday present was the thankfully very minor subungual hematoma I gave myself working on the spare tire "dummy hub" for my trunk rack). They've greatly improved these things since the...

While testing my new donut (it works as advertised!), I made the mistake of leaning the regular starboard rear wheel against the starboard corner of the rear bumper. When I lowered that corner of the car, the starboard corner of the rear bumper got hung up on the tire, and caved in. There...

Anybody ever hear of these guys? https://ezsparewheel.com/ I will note that if I calculate the theoretical outside diameter of my P205/55R16 tires, I get 24.878 inches, which matches the 24.9 inch outside diameter of the spare they show for a 2018 Leaf. Whereas, some other donut spares I've...

It's finished, and thanks to my having tested each subassembly as I completed it, it works. Here is the microswitch. Even with a cardboard template, I found I had to make multiple adjustments to the bracket, so that the latch would press the switch lever correctly, and the latch spring would...

I was looking for the grommet where the wiring is routed from under the dash to under the hood, and I found this lurking under the rug: 0504211548 by James Lampert, on Flickr Anybody ever seen anything like this before?

I'd like very much to add a couple of things to my 2018 Leaf. First of all, I'm going to be putting in a portable GPS navigator (so as not to disturb the factory radio/CD), and I'd kind of rather set up a dedicated power socket for it, out of the way, ideally in such a way that I can hide most...

Twice, now, I've driven off with my flap ajar. Once, months ago, when I didn't push it down after removing the charging cable, and once, last night, after I had it fitted with sonar. It can be a little disconcerting to have your flap suddenly pop open, with no advance warning, while driving...

At power-up, right after the splash-screen, and right before the operational screen comes up, I get this pop-up for a few seconds. http://members.toast.net/JHHL/LeafWhatIsThis.jpg No idea what it is, and I don't see anything like it in the owner's manual.