Had the oddest experience today. Was wondering if anyone had seen anything like it.
I was driving on the freeway in my 2013 Leaf at about 60 mph, battery charged at 76% when suddenly I lost acceleration. It wasn't "turtle" mode, no turtle indicator, rather I just couldn't accelerate. The status panel changed from showing the battery percentage to a message flashing "STOP the car immediately."
I immediately pulled over (luckily I was in the right lane) and turned on my hazards. As soon as I came to complete stopped the status panel message changed to "Turn on parking brake NOW". As soon as I did that the car just... "turned off the motor" and refused to anything.
My audio was still playing. Indicator lights were on. I could interact with everything For the most part seemed normal with the exception that the "motor wasn't running".
My first thought was to turn the car on and off, which I did. Everything seemed normal, it even made the start up chime indicating it was "turning on the motor", except I couldn't shift out of P. The car was stuck.
At this point I tried power cycling one more time, and then things just went crazy. The status dash started cycling through the various screens. Various indicator lights started flashing on and off. The car made lots of random beeping. My audio turned on and off. Subsystems just went bonkers. And this whole fritz going faster and faster, freaking me out. The worst part was I couldn't turn off the car. Pushing the ignition button just did... nothing. The car just continued to accelerate the fritz.
At this point I was pretty freaked out that maybe my battery might catch on fire or something and I jumped out, the car continuing to fritz.
The fritz kept going for about two minutes until the car suddenly shut itself off, leaving just the hazards blinking. That lasted for about another minute until the hazards froze. No blinking, just frozen. They lasted in a frozen state for about 5 minutes until they too shut off, leaving the car completely dead.
I called roadside assistance and got the car towed to a Nissan dealership. Hopefully they can look at it tomorrow.
Any ideas? My best guess is that something happened with my 12v battery while I was driving. Like it shorted out.
Anyone hear of anything like this before?
I was driving on the freeway in my 2013 Leaf at about 60 mph, battery charged at 76% when suddenly I lost acceleration. It wasn't "turtle" mode, no turtle indicator, rather I just couldn't accelerate. The status panel changed from showing the battery percentage to a message flashing "STOP the car immediately."
I immediately pulled over (luckily I was in the right lane) and turned on my hazards. As soon as I came to complete stopped the status panel message changed to "Turn on parking brake NOW". As soon as I did that the car just... "turned off the motor" and refused to anything.
My audio was still playing. Indicator lights were on. I could interact with everything For the most part seemed normal with the exception that the "motor wasn't running".
My first thought was to turn the car on and off, which I did. Everything seemed normal, it even made the start up chime indicating it was "turning on the motor", except I couldn't shift out of P. The car was stuck.
At this point I tried power cycling one more time, and then things just went crazy. The status dash started cycling through the various screens. Various indicator lights started flashing on and off. The car made lots of random beeping. My audio turned on and off. Subsystems just went bonkers. And this whole fritz going faster and faster, freaking me out. The worst part was I couldn't turn off the car. Pushing the ignition button just did... nothing. The car just continued to accelerate the fritz.
At this point I was pretty freaked out that maybe my battery might catch on fire or something and I jumped out, the car continuing to fritz.
The fritz kept going for about two minutes until the car suddenly shut itself off, leaving just the hazards blinking. That lasted for about another minute until the hazards froze. No blinking, just frozen. They lasted in a frozen state for about 5 minutes until they too shut off, leaving the car completely dead.
I called roadside assistance and got the car towed to a Nissan dealership. Hopefully they can look at it tomorrow.
Any ideas? My best guess is that something happened with my 12v battery while I was driving. Like it shorted out.
Anyone hear of anything like this before?