From the Easternmost area in the US huge Thank You for this video. My husband and I bought a used Leaf last year.......and the 12 volt battery went dead.....and we live 3 hours one way from the nearest place that can work on EV's. We charged the battery and nothing, it wouldn't start. Took the battery back out and put a new one in , nothing wouldn't start. So we ordered an OBD11 and downloaded LeafSpyPro and went in cleared the error messages and it started right up without flagging and new warnings. Thinking the dead 12 volt must have somehow jigged the system so it needed a reboot. Saved us a massive logistical headache and a lot of money.
All hooked up. SOH 77.54%......176 GIDS 62.6%......2012 w/16,163 miles and 10 bars left for less than $7,000.00 Thanks for the tutorial and now to learn a wee bit more.......fun in my old age.
@@EVOpinion Will drive until battery can no longer take care of our short drives and will then replace the battery. May end up adding to my RU-vid pottery videos.
Very helpful. If you don't have the blue asterisk (mine doesn't, using Bluetooth and Android on a small display) you can touch and hold the menu symbol (three bars) to obtain the same display. Also there is another screen available. On the 3rd screen, called Table on your display, you can swipe up or down to display a custom screen. It is user definable by editing a .csv file and can display from a selection of over 50 variables.
You are awesome! You know way more than the technicians at my local Nissan dealership. My brand new 2021 leaf broke down 4 times in one month & had to tow it to the dealership 3 times. Nissan technicians have never been capable of fixing electrical issues. If your Nissan vehicle is out of warranty, you either have to know how to fix it yourself or get rid of it. Nissan-resale-dealerships cannot help you unless they wipe at least $3k out of your pocket. This video helped me so much. Many, many thank yous!!!
ASA and ASE teamed up with a couple automotive unions and started lobbying the federal government for universal automotive diagnostic systems in the early 90's when all automotive shops were spending nearly half of their profits for diagnostic equipment
Just one tip when the batteries are discharging nothing is balancing them ... is up to the quality of individual cells. When they are charging is a different story when the BMS kicks in and tried to equalize all baterries. Great video tho !
That’s really handy. I bought one recently, mainly to help at a Rapid to know when charging is slowing down kW to guide when to stop. Will definitely do some playing with it now. FYI you don’t need the cover, I just stuck it in glove box and left OBD2 connected in place.
I followed this today to connect to a new leaf…. I also had to activate leafspy wifi in the app settings. Worked fine then. Excellent guides to leafspy. Convinced me it was worth getting. New car today. Leafspy already connected and settings adjusted 👍🏻😎
Used it over the last few days shopping around for a Leaf. Indespensible! SOH state of health is the best indicator to use. 11/12 cars have it under the dash, different to your car.
I'm from Sri Lanka. With our economical crysis our fuel prices are so much expensive. So we bought a nissan leaf which is very cheap to maintain and drive. It's a really good car with lots of hate
Another great video and one of the best I've seen on how to use LeafSpy, thank you. It'd be awesome if you could do a follow up video for those on how to use the tyre pressure sensor for those who switch to winter tyres.
Thanks for this. I'm very close to buying a Leaf, and just purchased LeafSpy & a wireless ODBII. Feel confident I'll know how to use it when going to the dealership now.
Not sure about the UK but here in NZ the dongles are for either Android or iOS. Make sure you get the right one. The app you need for iOS is Leafspy Pro.
Brilliant video, thank you. Just bought 2015 nissan leaf as second car for me & Mrs. Ordered dongle & downloaded leafspy. Had quick look but hadn't found service menu, until i watched your vid. Cheers
Thank you for making this video. I got the "Turtle" and "EV" warning lights after charging at a Level2 charging station. I did as you said and was able to clear the DTC codes so that I could get my car inspected/registered SIDENOTE: U.S. models do not have the cover, plugs in under the dash. Which I had to kneel down to find. Thanks again for your help CHEERS !!
bignayst hi, I’m really sorry. I’ve only just seen your comments. Thank you for sharing my video and if you still need any info then you are more than welcome to contact me on evopinion@outlook.com
AWESOME! Planning to get the leaf next year but this app alone is great! The amount of info you get all also being able to read the dtc and clear is will worth the money!
Ian Love I bought LELink^2 www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0755N61PW?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title It was my second one. Recommended by LeafSpy and used low energy Bluetooth without pairing and auto turns self on and off. So just plug in once and leave it.
Amazing collection of info you can get from that one port. But I still have no clue why someone would come up with a gid, a measurement that is 80 watt-hours. Huh??
I’m very puzzled. I think most people watching this video are shopping for a used leaf and are looking for a clear explanation of what numbers to look for that represent the degradation and how to interpret it., And you didn’t clearly explain that.
Thank you for a very informative video, (and to those who had useful comments below). We are looking to get a Leaf in 2019 and Leaf Spy looks like a very worth while investment, battery management being fundamental to owning an EV. Understanding GIDs is a really helpful tip!
Con Cahill glad it helped. If you need to k ow anything when you are buying one just ask or pop onto Twitter @evopinion where you will find loads of very knowledgeable people really happy to help 😁👍
Two minor points: 1) on the first screen, doesn’t each line represent a cell pair? 2) the L1/L2 charge count increases by one for each immediate charge, bu t if you use the charge timer to, for example, finish charging just before you leave for work, the count goes up by two (seeming lay once for plugging in and once for the start of actual charging). The counter is therefore quite inaccurate.
Very well explained, unlike some other vids on here, sadly I bought a Leaf without using a Spy, ignorance on my part, having lots of problems despite it being a 2015 with only 16,000 on the clock, am about to find out just what kind of dog I have lumbered myself with, thanks for the tips.
Hello and thank you for this. Currently I am looking to buy a 2012 Leaf and intend using your guidance. I don't quite understand where the GID's fit could you kindly help: 280 GID's when your/ a Leaf is new. Yours in this video has 17.1% GID's. Am I correct calculating 17.1% of 280 GIDS = 47.88 GID's is all that is left please? 🤔
Would you use this when looking at a Leaf with a view to buying it, and do sellers normally agree to let you plug this into their car? Very helpful video BTW. :)
Actually showing how to get it to pair with your phone would have been extremely helpful as I am having all sorts of problems and I'm not very clued up on phones.
Thanks for the video and also for the hint using wifi devices. The Bluetooth I use is a crap. Works, but with many dropouts and reconnections. It might work better on bt with phone connections to the AV turned off. Anyway wifi will allow me to record charging stats without leaving the phone or an tablet in the car.
Thanks for the informative detailed video! One question, why are you averaging 1 L1/L2 charge every 20 miles (32km)? I thought it was bad for long term battery health to keep the battery topped off? But yours is (was, 2 years ago this was...) still a healthy 93%
i'm looking at buying a leaf and its very useful info, i havent got my head round it thou, the battery chech deffo most useful if looking to buy . thanyou for posting
Once again, a very informative video. Just ordered my Vgate OBD2, thanks for the help. Any chance of doing a video on LED replacement bulbs for the exterior incandescent ones for pre-2018 LEAFS ???
canadagirleh I’m glad it helped. I have never changed my headlights so not in a position to give advice but a couple of people have now asked so I will look into it 👍
Only just noticed that in the 2018 Leaf handbook, about page 2, it states that any such equipment, using the OBD, would invalidate any warranty if it's use leads to damage, which they say it might. Just wondered if you realise that?
Thank you for pointing this out. I hadn’t seen it before. Knowing Nissan any sign you have touched anything they will try to wriggle Out of a warranty repair!!
Could it look a bit dodgy if you want to plug the dongle into a car that someone is selling? And second question, if someone had a dodgy app, would it be possible to upload dodgy stuff to the car using it? Thanks for the video, very useful :)
Very clear and valuable info. I have a Nissan Leaf bought in Japan Oct 2017 of 40 Kwh battery. Can you please tell me which OBD to buy and where can I get it? Thanks
He did mention it. Red is when they are balancing. Blue normal. Neither represent an issue. What I am not sure about is at what voltage the min max differential becomes a problem.
hello, please write what is the name of your elm and where can I buy it I have already bought two and not one does not work for me nissan leaf 2022 thanks
This was a nice look at LEAFSpy I wish I had all the features at my disposal, that LEAFSpy provides. I use an app called "Torque" to monitor various things in my Spark EV (it looks at a set of PIDs (Parameter IDs, think of addresses where information can be found) that coincidentally are common in the Bolt/AmperaE, SparkEV & Volt/Ampera, such as cell voltages, temp sensors, battery coolant pump speed, etc).
my 2011 19,000 miles 24kwh LEAF has overnight lost 2 battery capacity bars .The local In Portugal Nissan dealer has done a diagnostic and all of my battery cells are good just lazy. He suggested a chadamo charge to re energise my lazy? drive battery. this has revived my battery capacity but not recovered the two missing battery capacity bars .. How can I bring the two capacity bars back onto the screen .
I'm using Ancel obd2 dongle that comes with my ancel tablet. Leaf spy connects to the dongle (as the light on dongle turns from red to blue) but no data is displayed? Any help much appreciated thanks
I couldnt find the odc on amazon..i just checked it out n the one i saw wasnt orange but it was black with two lights one was red amd the other was blue...so which one do i get bc i was wanting to get a used nissan leaf but im not ready just yet to get one, but would like to be ready when the times comes...need some help to pick the right one on amazon...please do help...???
Hi! We follow you’re guide on buying a second hand leaf and we are going to use the app and the obd reader when we are checking our new car! We almost bought a car with a rear axle problem, which they say its a quite often problem with this car! Would you have an idea how could we check this on the app? Thank you
Good informative video. The Charge graph is a puzzle to me. It seems to show the same file which doesn’t change. Anyone know whether it only records the charge if plugged in during charging? Seems a csv file is stored somewhere in the app, and I never see anything other than the same file. I read that the LeafSpy download already has a sample charge graph installed. Maybe that is all I ever get. Any way to reset it?
Are the read outs from the OBD 2 purely reading the cars computer or is it actually checking the real state of the battery. Bearing in mind the possibility of a BSM reset ie the memory or history data may have been compromised.
A very helpful video if you are considering getting Leaf Spy. Tell me i'm silly but where is the wifi coming from if you are not in range of your home wifi? Do you need a data connection on your phone or pad if you don't have a strong signal? Many thanks.
You only have to keep in mind, that the wifi connection to the Opd is disconnecting your device from the internet that is provided from your router at home. But most phones will pop-up a message and ask you if you want internet over cell broadcast if not done automatically.
I've got one of these readers, and, not having a data plan, I can hook it up to the car, but it doesn't give me access to what the trouble code means without a connection to wifi. That's not a problem because I can still connect when the car's on the driveway. The reader was under $4.00 from China. I wasn't expecting much but it seems to work.
Hi - thanks for the video. I’m in the process of buying a used Nissan Leaf 30kWh. Can you give me an idea what kind of stats I should be looking for as acceptable in a 3-4 year old model? Many thanks
I live in Leigh Nr Warrington, I believe most of the smart Electric are sold in the south east and London. I waited four months to get mine, and have found very little information about them. Maybe Mercedes-Benz who sell the smart will let you test one. I was hoping you could help me . I have found someone who gives information about the Renault Zoe . But nothing about the smart electric
Awesome video. Question if anyone how knows about leaf can help me out. I just bought a 2013 leaf s with 77k miles on it and came with 11 bars of battery. I just used leaf spy to check the battery degradation and it have 83%(lost 17%). I want to know if it was a good buy. It was $7000($2000 down and financing the rest) I'm paying just 150 including insurance. Can anyone tell me if this car with this battery was a good choice for the price. It's my first ev and I'm loving it, even tho I don't know much about battery degradation it is helping me a lot to just going to work and small trips here and there :)
Need a little help here (i hope my english is good enough): thinking about buyin used Nissan e-nv, leaf spy should work as i´ve seen on youtube? about GIDs: so obviously i´ll have to calculate (from your example) 49 GIDs / 0,147 = 281 GIDs. That would mean you didn´t loose a GID? cause you mentioned it is delivered with 280? Do you know much GIDs would be good, OK, sign for real degradation, no go? Thanks for replying.
