The Nissan Leaf 40Kwh leasing discussion

[Sargeant Orange]

Rscut said:

Was this at a cost to you? To be honest, the free charger is the most appealing element of the offer, not sure how often I would be able to have it plugged in at peak times.

No cost so far, they literally turned up, pulled one fuse out & stuck another in. They were here 2 minutes.

Yes the free charger is the only appeal really, pod point seems to be £400+ now when you enter the leaf 40kwh as the model.

[Sargeant Orange]

rich12 said:

Not very happy with the range on this car.
Seems my daily 40ish mile commute is using between 60-70 miles of range.

Normal driving in eco mode, heater on lowest setting at around 21 degrees and just heated seat on.

Averaging about 3.1kwh or whatever it is.

I'm finding the wind at the moment absolutely kills the range. My 36 mile commute has ranged from using just 18% on a flat calm day to double that on a windy day.

[Sargeant Orange]

I tend to top it up every other night so it doesn't really go below 40% but it's showing 3.2 miles per kwh, so according to how I understand it that's 3.2 x 37 = 119miles to a full charge.

37 being the usable kwh of the battery.

Not great considering it hasn't really gone over 65mph

[Sargeant Orange]

Had a yellow system fault flash up & stay on the dash this afternoon, just after being splashed by a huge wave of water from a truck coming in the opposite direction.

A bit of googling suggests possibly a faulty radar sensor on the front, likely due to water ingress. Fingers crossed it's just a one off caused by the direction of the water coming across & it'll dry out, but I'm not hopeful.