Took my Leaf in for the update and was set on having the CVLI done. Made sure I arrived with only 1 bar and had printed copies of the relevant service manual pages. The customer liaison didn't really like me asking for specific tests but I made enough of a nuisance of myself that the actual Leaf specialist came out to talk to me and things went a lot better at that point. Was very informative and even let me look at the setup. Seemed to actually appreciate an informed customer instead of resenting it like the front man.
We paged through all the cell-pairs, identified the max and min (3733mV and 3668mV respectively). Was hoping to find a bad cell to explain my reduced capacity, but he said 65mV max-min wasn't bad.
Wouldn't give me a printout, though. Very apologetic but apparently in the class they really drove home that under no circumstance could this information be given to customers. Really didn't want me to even take pictures of the setup so I was stuck with committing the values to memory. While I disagree with this policy - it's my car afterall - I don't blame him for not wanting the risk his job for a stranger. Was actually pretty friendly and I walked away feeling like they at least tried to appease me as much as they were permitted.
Pretty cool setup. At one point he was able to consult with Nissan engineers at a remote site (would have been late for Osaka so not sure where) and the remote engineers were able to directly read and examine the canbus messages. Ran out of daylight so I will bring it back on Monday for more tests (this time at max battery charge). Hopefully we'll get to the bottom of why my capacity is low.
