ericsf
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They told me to expect it would take 1 hour.
From "in the service bay" to "software updated?" About 30 minutes... The other 15 minutes was waiting for a service technician to be ready to take care of my car and them washing it afterward.EVDRIVER said:Does anyone know how long the upgrade takes, the actual work part once the tech gets the car?
Randy3 said:I took my LEAF into my PD last week to have the update completed. It took a total of 2.5 hours. The tech says he went "by the book" and didn't cut any corners. He said his instructions included ensuring that the lead acid (i.e., accessory) battery was fully charged before running the update. I equate this with flashing a bios on a computer; the instructions normally tell you to be sure the power stays on and if a laptop, be sure the battery is charged. Apparently, he had to wait some time for the accessory battery to charge before he could proceed. The actual software upgrade took less than 30 minutes. Add time to chat, wash the car, and give the service advisor (and parts department employee) a test drive, and you've got 2.5 hours.
I love my LEAF. What other car would a service advisor and parts employee ask for a test drive in a customer's car :lol:
EVDRIVER said:Does anyone know how long the upgrade takes, the actual work part once the tech gets the car?
Yah, I said "anyone else" because I remembered your report and jason98's story on p. 15, but I'd still like to hear if anyone else has measured any difference in the actual range of the last 3 bars of charge on the display compared to pre-update behavior. We rarely get down that low, but if there is more of a "reserve" there now, it would be nice to know how much, in case we push the range out of necessity some day. Your report of getting 14 miles after the low battery warning and 1 bar left was a useful datapoint, I'd just like to hear more "range per bar" reports, especially starting from the time the display drops to 3 bars left. My wife is convinced they "padded" that last white bar before you drop into the red ones a lot, but I'm not sure if it wasn't just the way she was driving that got her more range than usual out of it. She drives the car more than I do, and has only been into that bar a couple times since the update, but she swears it seems to last "forever" compared to the other ones.GeekEV said:Not sure how you missed that, you only had to wade through 11 pages to find it. :lol:
garygid said:The "Instantaneous Miles per kWh" (or mpe, miles per edie) bar gauge normally reflects your present speed and power usage.
However, AFTER doing any Regen, it "sticks" at 8 mpe until it thinks that the Regen'd energy has been used up.
That is the reason for disparity.bowthom said:I have reset both simultaneously and after a while the dash unit is ~.15 m/kWh less than the display. I haven't tested why but it is probably driven by different distance figures. IE: odometer vs GPS or...............
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