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so sorry im a bit frustrated! I finally bought a 2013 leaf at what i thought was a good deal. 11 battery bars, less then 100,000 km, SOH 84%. Drove her home on wednesday, it was a 200km drive, so i stopped twice to charge her. The old owner only used a granny charger, first charge up to 80% with a l3 charger was totally fine. The second time i charged was in my home town, as i was at 22% and i knew when i got home the kids would want a ride. So I charged la dee dah and when i went to leave, hit the brake, start button and got the message "when parked apply parking brake"- but the parking brake was on. Car would NOT go out of park into gear. Turned her off and released and reapplied the parking brake- no change. So the car was towed to my closest nissan dealer, they said it was the parking acuator relay and that it was repared, i got the car back yesterday. I did ask them to check the 12v battery, as the posts looked pretty mucky and i thought that may have something to do with it, they said the battery was fine and they just cleaned the corrosion exudate off the posts.
OK so charged her back to 80% overnight on l1 at home as my L2 set up has not arrived yet. No problems getting to work, coming home, running kids around... until drop off at a friends house, when i went to restart the car it said "key is not detected" even though the key was in the same place, the little tray infront of the shifter. So i checked the fob was working by locking and unlocking the doors, voila car started. Drove to my next destination, parked on the driveway on a hill so applied parking brake. SAME ERROR MESSAGE- 'when parked apply parking brake"
Dont know if it is important to mention, but i did have an obdII plugged in for leaf spy, a burner phone plugged into the usb port for charging as well is my usual phone charging after work on the cigarette lighter port thingy with an adaptor.
As i live in quebec, i have 30 days to return the car for replacement or my money back.
It is my dream car, have any of you heard of these problems and know what i should tell the dealer to do to fix it or is the car a lemon? i am a single mom with 2 kids and i really need a safe and reliable car. So far, I am happy all times she has refused to start she has been parked.
TIA
so sorry im a bit frustrated! I finally bought a 2013 leaf at what i thought was a good deal. 11 battery bars, less then 100,000 km, SOH 84%. Drove her home on wednesday, it was a 200km drive, so i stopped twice to charge her. The old owner only used a granny charger, first charge up to 80% with a l3 charger was totally fine. The second time i charged was in my home town, as i was at 22% and i knew when i got home the kids would want a ride. So I charged la dee dah and when i went to leave, hit the brake, start button and got the message "when parked apply parking brake"- but the parking brake was on. Car would NOT go out of park into gear. Turned her off and released and reapplied the parking brake- no change. So the car was towed to my closest nissan dealer, they said it was the parking acuator relay and that it was repared, i got the car back yesterday. I did ask them to check the 12v battery, as the posts looked pretty mucky and i thought that may have something to do with it, they said the battery was fine and they just cleaned the corrosion exudate off the posts.
OK so charged her back to 80% overnight on l1 at home as my L2 set up has not arrived yet. No problems getting to work, coming home, running kids around... until drop off at a friends house, when i went to restart the car it said "key is not detected" even though the key was in the same place, the little tray infront of the shifter. So i checked the fob was working by locking and unlocking the doors, voila car started. Drove to my next destination, parked on the driveway on a hill so applied parking brake. SAME ERROR MESSAGE- 'when parked apply parking brake"
Dont know if it is important to mention, but i did have an obdII plugged in for leaf spy, a burner phone plugged into the usb port for charging as well is my usual phone charging after work on the cigarette lighter port thingy with an adaptor.
As i live in quebec, i have 30 days to return the car for replacement or my money back.
It is my dream car, have any of you heard of these problems and know what i should tell the dealer to do to fix it or is the car a lemon? i am a single mom with 2 kids and i really need a safe and reliable car. So far, I am happy all times she has refused to start she has been parked.
TIA