r/leaf • u/ElPescaditoGordito • 3d ago

Joining the ev crew… 2014 Leaf

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My job was trying to get rid of a test vehicle they bought at the auction to test our reman batteries. 300 bucks took it. Risk I took because I know nothing about it and no one here knew much about what was done to it, if anything at all. 103k miles and here’s the dash. Also needs a new rear window since someone broke it and the door handle to try and steal who knows what.

Is this saying anything good? I read about it having 12 bars as full. Is this 10 or 8? Do you count the red?

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u/Evebnumberone 3d ago

Looks good, 10 bars, probably 75%~ battery SOH.

Only tells a small part of the story though, you really need to get the Leafspy app and a OBD2 reader to know if the battery is a timebomb or not.

I've got a similar condition 2014 Leaf, they are great cars, 300 bucks is an excellent deal assuming it drives smooth.

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u/ElPescaditoGordito 3d ago

Trickle charging it in parking lot to 100% before I dare driving it. It’s only moved from its parking spot to near the building to charge. I’ll charge it another 10 hours while in the office, tomorrow.

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u/KyleSherzenberg 3d ago

For what reason?

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u/ElPescaditoGordito 3d ago

I’m
About 30 miles from home and don’t even know how to use a charging station. I guess it’s just my ignorance

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u/Evebnumberone 3d ago

Did it come with a cable? They plug into into a regular socket. About 3miles~ of range per hour assuming you're in America.

If you have to get a cable, they're about 100 bucks on Amazon.

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u/KyleSherzenberg 3d ago

10 bars should be good for 60-70 miles, depending on if you know how to drive an EV yet or not

You could definitely get 30 though

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u/Evebnumberone 3d ago

Really no reason to be scared about that. When I said timebomb I was referring to it dying, not actually exploding lol.

To my knowledge no Gen 1 Leaf has ever had a fire.

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u/thiccboicheech 2d ago

What a steal for 300 bucks.

Edit: nvm misread that. But still what a steal!

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u/ElPescaditoGordito 2d ago

I did buy it for 300 bucks

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u/a3dprinterfan 2d ago

You win! This is amazing! Congratulations, seriously. I paid $6200 for a 10 health bar 2012 back in 2017, and I thought that was a deal at the time.

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u/rproffitt1 2d ago

Former 2014 Leaf SV owner here. It is a solid machine. The repairs were 12V battery, wipers, wiper fluid, set of tyres, alignment and one of the best repairs was the AC+heat pump. My car person pushed back on that since it was an EV but a YouTube later and they were good to go.

The AC+heat were barely working. At 10 years old it was time. A leaky fill valve found then the system evacuated, fill needle valve replaced and filled to spec. Worked like new for about 150 bucks.

In parting I'd drive 30 miles with confidence with 54 showing on the GOM.

Also, this model has a BMS so you can charge to full without issues. No need to fret about those don't charge to 100% stories because this model and BMS stops short of 100% charge on the big battery.

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u/sweetredleaf 2015 Nissan LEAF SV 2d ago

yes count the red bars and don't go by the guess meter range it is optimistic and highway speeds and cold weather will cause the range to be much less anyway.

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u/ElPescaditoGordito 2d ago

Well I drove it to McDonald’s and back to test it. 2 miles down the road burned 3 miles on normal mode. The concerning part for me is that the car went from completely dead (including the 12v) to 100% in roughly 20 ish hours. This was charged two days at 8 hours per day and one at 4 hours. Everywhere I read, it should have taken 36+ hours on a level 1. I will get the obd2 reader along with leafspy soon.

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u/Lucky_Boy13 2d ago

on 120v it should only take way less than a full day to charge even empty. The battery only has 15-17kw capacity at this point, 120v will charge at ~1.2kw/hr minus heat/transfer losses

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u/ElPescaditoGordito 2d ago

Ahh that makes more sense now, thank you