Hoosier said:I've been following this thread for months now since I lost my 3rd bar somewhere around 55,000. Now I'm almost at end of warranty 59,887 miles and my 9th bar refuses to drop. My Leaf Spy Pro numbers are: 42.34 Ahr 64% SOH 43.35 Hx
It's so frustrating owning a car that I love but can't drive. It just sits in the driveway all week charged at 100%. I'm so sick of this waiting game! The car is obviously below 70% capacity. I can't afford to sell it...I can't afford to buy a new battery...the range has dropped so low I can't drive it to work. So it just sits there collecting dust.
That is rock and hard place. If it were me, I'd do a few "drives to nowhere" for the last 100 miles (remembering to leave you enough miles to drive to the dealer if necessary), maybe 3 x 30 mile trips, interspersed with using the climate control to deplete charge. The thing is...we don't know what will trigger the bar to disappear (God knows I wish we did!), so you gotta throw a little bit of everything at it to try and find something that works. I have a feeling that just letting the car sit won't, and you need to put it through a few charge cycles if nothing else.
Yes, clearly our cars are below 70% capacity. Most of us think that they're already below 66.25% of capacity, but of course we have no way of proving it that Nissan will accept.
This is the fallacy of the "below 9 bars" warranty. If below 9 bars IS 66.25% of capacity, then it's of WHAT capacity? Is it the case that those of us who got a shitty original capacity pack get doubly screwed over by having to wait until we're at 66.25% of that? That's the only reason I can come up with for the loss of bars to have such a wide range of values. I'm my mind, the 66.25% should be of the capacity a new LEAF is supposed to have, and each car should switch bars off at (more or less) a fixed value. Not at a value for bar 9 that could be anything from 64%-66%, or a 1.5AHr spread! It's completely ridiculous.
Edit: Actually ^ assumes the values we're getting from the various Gid devices are valid. So you know what, if Nissan disagrees let them show us the actual remaining capacity of our cars when we go in for the annual battery check!