kolmstead said:Mike, you actually have two gambles; whether or not your battery will qualify, and whether or not they force you to accept the P3227 update before they determine your battery's capacity loss. In my case, the update "added" quite a bit of capacity, and it took about six months to get back to the pre-update numbers. When Nissan announced the warranty for the 2011 and 2012 Leafs, they said that you must have the update before they will honor the warranty. Good luck, Sir!
-Karl
You are right, of course. Though we've heard of at least one instance where an owner has not had the update done until after loosing his fourth bar and going in for warranty replacement. The dealer did the update there and then and deemed the pack was sufficiently degraded anyway. I'll have to see if I can find that thread again and get the details. Specifically, how much time went by between the bar loss and the warranty claim.
So it's probably three gambles:
1) Whether or not I end up loosing the fourth bar and qualifying in the first place.
2) Whether or not I get the update well in advance and take that nasty regen hit over a longer period of time than I'd like (permanently even, should I not end up qualifying at all!).
3) Whether or not I wait it out, even if that ends up being quite a ways beyond losing the fourth bar, until I'm certain there will be zero chance of the update ballsing up the warranty claim.
Decisions, decisions.
PS: This is why I started that one poll about bar behavior post-update - to see how many cars regained capacity bars once the update had been done. It seemed to be a very small percentage.