Used 2014 Nissan LEAF Hatchback Consumer Reviews
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Leaf nightmare
Mare54, 04/12/2021
updated 03/12/2024
2014 Nissan LEAF SL 4dr Hatchback (electric DD)
4 of 8 people found this review helpful
Well..... I bought my Leaf brand new in 2014. For five years my Leaf amazingly had no service repairs. Then the unthinkable happened. I had pulled up in my driveway as usual, put it in park, set the brake and was ready to get out of my car when it accelerated ON ITS OWN with the brake on and plowed into our grave door damaging not only my car, but demolishing a 1972 baby blue Mustang being stored in the garage! Not only that, but the force of the acceleration actually pushed that heavy Mustang into the wall that joins the garage to the kitchen, damaging the kitchen wall and shoving the stove out into the kitchen! It was thousands of dollars to repair my car and house but insurance would not cover the repairs on the Mustang. I contacted Nissan and sent photos and they sent me a case number, then quit responding to me. It took months to fix my Leaf and my house, but the Nissan techs said nothing showed up on the diagnostics except the smaller battery showing it was low. The Nissan techs told me that the battery can “jump” when that happens, but it was no jump.... it was a sudden acceleration that caused injury to me and thousands of dollars in damage. What “jump” has that much power to do such damage? So I got my car back finally and had them REPLACE that battery JUST IN CASE. I did this out of pocket. Well about 18 months later...... last week..... it happened AGAIN! This time in a grocery store parking lot where after parking and setting the brake, I was putting on my mask to go in the store, when the exact same scenario occurred. My car accelerated suddenly without warning, jumped a small cement planter and crashed into TWO other cars, pushing one of them out of where it was parked and damaging the passenger side of her 2002 suv. The woman had police call an ambulance and check her out. No idea what happened with that. The other car was an old beat up van but my car was damaged on the right side of my car (their car? Couldn’t really tell any damage on that bumper, but it’s paint was on my car. It’s a miracle I wasn’t hurt badly but my car looked totaled. I had it towed to the Nissan dealer where it awaits numerous evaluations in the coming week. I could NEVER trust a Leaf ever again after all of this! I sure hope Nissan does the right thing here. I am emotionally harmed and need to seek out some psychological help over this. I hope no one else ever has to go through this horrible nightmare like I am. It’s so sad because I really believed in the EV technology and loved my car a lot.
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Second Owner Blues? No Way ! Leaf is Solid!
Jonah Nickolds, 07/22/2022
updated 02/01/2023
2014 Nissan LEAF S 4dr Hatchback (electric DD)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
We dipped our toes into the 'Used EV Pool' and now we find that it's really helping out by freeing us from the Gas Station Habit. Our Leaf has always been charged solely from the home charger that came with the car (110 Volt, 8 hour charge), and that's why it still has 9 or 10 charge bars on the dash readout. For a 2014 Leaf to still get up to 82 miles using the original battery is pretty good. We would really like to swap the old battery for an extended range one that will give us 230 miles or so; unfortunately California only seems to have a few places to 'swap out' and we do not know of any in the SF Bay area. Any suggestions?
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