Hi,
I have owned a Nissan Leaf 2018 for 19 months. This past August the air con quit and I wasn't too concerned. 6 weeks ago we started to have problems with the heat too. I live in a cold place where heat is required to stay alive. After my regular mechanic failed to figure out how to fix it I took it to the dealer and after 3 hours of diagnostic was told the entire Air Con and Heating systems need to be replaced. It was accompanied by a picture of the broken pieces of the inside of the compressor. The car has just over 50000 km and 5 years and 4 months old from date of manufacture. The fix is 11000 dollars. I spoke with the dealer and they said this was due to the freon not being charged by the previous owner and that it is supposed to be charged every 2 years. Does anyone know if charging the freon is in the guide for regular maintenance.
Nissan knows this is a problem or they wouldn't create a warranty with such serious time/range limitations of 3 years or 60K. I'm well within one aspect of the warranty but was already beyond the time range at time of purchase. This is a serious design flaw. Be careful if you are buying one of these cars and get the freon charging done as part of the maintenance and find out if the past buyer did as well. This is what in the inside of the compressor looked like - completely full of broken pieces. The dealer only told me about the freon after several phone calls with different people at different nissan places. They clearly know this is a problem but I don't think the public do and certainly non-EV garages have no idea as all.
I have owned a Nissan Leaf 2018 for 19 months. This past August the air con quit and I wasn't too concerned. 6 weeks ago we started to have problems with the heat too. I live in a cold place where heat is required to stay alive. After my regular mechanic failed to figure out how to fix it I took it to the dealer and after 3 hours of diagnostic was told the entire Air Con and Heating systems need to be replaced. It was accompanied by a picture of the broken pieces of the inside of the compressor. The car has just over 50000 km and 5 years and 4 months old from date of manufacture. The fix is 11000 dollars. I spoke with the dealer and they said this was due to the freon not being charged by the previous owner and that it is supposed to be charged every 2 years. Does anyone know if charging the freon is in the guide for regular maintenance.
Nissan knows this is a problem or they wouldn't create a warranty with such serious time/range limitations of 3 years or 60K. I'm well within one aspect of the warranty but was already beyond the time range at time of purchase. This is a serious design flaw. Be careful if you are buying one of these cars and get the freon charging done as part of the maintenance and find out if the past buyer did as well. This is what in the inside of the compressor looked like - completely full of broken pieces. The dealer only told me about the freon after several phone calls with different people at different nissan places. They clearly know this is a problem but I don't think the public do and certainly non-EV garages have no idea as all.