WARNING!!!! I just purchased one of these Copart / autobidmaster flooded Leafs at auction. They do NOT include the EV Li-Ion battery!!!! I'm not sure who is removing them, but they don't seem to be appearing anywhere for sale (not on ebay, or copart). You can see in the auction pics the undercarriage plastic covers are in the back seat on many of the Leafs for sale. These cover the EV traction battery and are being removed so the battery can be removed before the auction, but they don't tell you this in the auctions! I noticed some cars on the auction do not show the covers in the back seat but still do NOT have the EV battery with the car. You can kind of tell because the car sits higher without the heavy battery pack.
Also note that these were flooded with SALT WATER!!!! How do I know? the center glove box on mine is still full of salt water, even though the inside of the car is mostly dried out. The water level inside was also up to a very high level in the car. Mine shows corrosion from a water level higher than the center of the steering wheel! Don't be fooled by very clean door panels and dash. Parts of my car are amazingly spotless inside, but it is very rusted and corroded behind the panels. The electrical connectors are hard to get apart, and are corroded. Various ECU's are unrecoverable.
The traction motor gear reduction unit has a snorkel for a vent which extends up vertically, and it appears the water level exceeded the top of the snorkel, so there could be salt water inside the gear reduction (transmission) and motor. Although the car has zero miles, it came without the EVSE charger as well. I purchased an electronic OEM service manual on ebay, and although it has maybe over 1000 pages, none of the electrical wire colors are called out - so it's very hard to find what wire is what. They just give you connector pin numbers-no colors. Parts of it are poorly translated into English, so hard to understand.
The car would not roll (electric Park Brake on), so they have to be loaded and unloaded with a fork lift (which no one tells you!). The car electronics won't power up - too damaged - so you can release the PB. All the external body panels are fine, glass, wheels, tires all look new, but the electrical circuit boards are corroded. The outside of the motor, gear reduction unit, inverter, etc., are all corroded. I bought it for a motor / battery swap out into a different car, and am very disappointed about the Li-ion battery not being included. That's the most expensive part of the vehicle, and I think Copart is hiding behind their "as is" statement, which is essentially false advertising for not disclosing that 80% of the value of the vehicle is missing. They don't show any pictures of the undercarriage, so there's no way to know the battery is missing.
Also note that these were flooded with SALT WATER!!!! How do I know? the center glove box on mine is still full of salt water, even though the inside of the car is mostly dried out. The water level inside was also up to a very high level in the car. Mine shows corrosion from a water level higher than the center of the steering wheel! Don't be fooled by very clean door panels and dash. Parts of my car are amazingly spotless inside, but it is very rusted and corroded behind the panels. The electrical connectors are hard to get apart, and are corroded. Various ECU's are unrecoverable.
The traction motor gear reduction unit has a snorkel for a vent which extends up vertically, and it appears the water level exceeded the top of the snorkel, so there could be salt water inside the gear reduction (transmission) and motor. Although the car has zero miles, it came without the EVSE charger as well. I purchased an electronic OEM service manual on ebay, and although it has maybe over 1000 pages, none of the electrical wire colors are called out - so it's very hard to find what wire is what. They just give you connector pin numbers-no colors. Parts of it are poorly translated into English, so hard to understand.
The car would not roll (electric Park Brake on), so they have to be loaded and unloaded with a fork lift (which no one tells you!). The car electronics won't power up - too damaged - so you can release the PB. All the external body panels are fine, glass, wheels, tires all look new, but the electrical circuit boards are corroded. The outside of the motor, gear reduction unit, inverter, etc., are all corroded. I bought it for a motor / battery swap out into a different car, and am very disappointed about the Li-ion battery not being included. That's the most expensive part of the vehicle, and I think Copart is hiding behind their "as is" statement, which is essentially false advertising for not disclosing that 80% of the value of the vehicle is missing. They don't show any pictures of the undercarriage, so there's no way to know the battery is missing.
