dgpcolorado said:
drees said:
Easy - the "hot pack" is really a figment of our imaginations and our desperate attempt to justify our purchase of a Nissan LEAF. In other words, we are all going insane talking about the same thing day in / day out expecting Nissan to do something different! The sane ones have sold their LEAF for another plug-in, or simply accepted that Nissan will never do anything for original owners who have lost more capacity than expected.
Feeling a bit cynical today
drees? You may well be right, although I was hoping for better from Nissan. Silly me. Oh well, I have enjoyed driving my LEAF over the last couple of years, even if it has been a
very expensive ride compared to just driving the ICE car.
So after reading that post, I did another search for used Leafs on autotrader (I've been wanting to buy a used leaf for years, just waiting for a cheap enough price to come along).
Ironically the best looking leaf in my search results appears to be DaveinOlyWA's old Leaf #258 with 44,598 miles currently for sale in the Pacific NW for $13,777. The Pic on autotrader still shows it having 12 bars.
I wonder if someone reset the BMS to show 12 bars or if he was just on the edge of losing the first bar when he traded it in?
I also wonder if I'm better off just spending the equivalent purchase price on a used Prius instead?
Was it just the initial purchase price that made you consider your leaf "very expensive" or if it's been other components of the TCO calculation that surprised you?