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What follows is a very long thread, so I have summarised it here:
My Parking Brake failed
In August 2014 my electronic parking brake failed. Symptoms were the message "Visit Dealer" on the dashboard display, a flashing red light on the parking brake switch, the flashing red warning that the parking brake is applied on the dashboard, and the red and orange warning lights permanently lit on the dashboard - along with the fact the parking no longer worked, it was stuck in the "off" position. Connecting a Leafspy returned error code C10E4. I couldn't reset this code.
I visited a Nissan dealer for diagnosis
The dealer determined that the parking brake module would need to be replaced, at a cost of £2,172:
I asked Nissan to contribute to the repair
The car was about two weeks out of warranty, they said absolutely no.
I bought a much much cheaper parking brake module from the USA:
The price for the module 360323NA0A was the bulk of the cost, so I ordered a 360323NA0B (The A has been replaced) from the USA where it is only about £300.
The module lives in the hump in the boot, the small brown box here:
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This is the module itself, it's easy to remove and replace:
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I fitted the new module and took it back to the dealer to activate it:
I tried activating it myself with leafspy and it didn't work. When the dealer tried, it didn't work.
After much arguing with Nissan they put the price of the module in the UK down to only £693, so I had it replaced by the dealer for about £950:
It didn't work
Nissan quoted the replacement of the parking brake actuator at ~£3k. The actuator lives under the boot floor and looks like this:
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I asked Nissan to contribute to the cost of this new repair:
They said yes, and agreed to cover the cost of the part but not the labour, so as of Monday (July 13th) my parking brake is fixed and my car passed it's second MOT and celebrated it's fourth birthday. Yes it took almost a year to resolve, for a number of reasons. The cost for the labour and the dealer supplied module were met by the garage that sold me the Leaf, as the parking brake failed just a couple of months after I bought it - they have been very fair and supportive throughout.
Original message below
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Sad times with my leaf yesterday. The display in the instrument cluster was warning that the parking brake was on (it wasn't) the red parking brake symbol was flashing, the red and yellow triangles were illuminated and the light on the parking brake switch was flashing. After a restart the message on the display says "Visit dealer" and all the lights are still on/flashing.
The car is now over three years old so I'm worried this will be very expensive. Also wishing the car had the simple mechanical parking brake from the gen 2...
My Parking Brake failed
In August 2014 my electronic parking brake failed. Symptoms were the message "Visit Dealer" on the dashboard display, a flashing red light on the parking brake switch, the flashing red warning that the parking brake is applied on the dashboard, and the red and orange warning lights permanently lit on the dashboard - along with the fact the parking no longer worked, it was stuck in the "off" position. Connecting a Leafspy returned error code C10E4. I couldn't reset this code.
I visited a Nissan dealer for diagnosis
The dealer determined that the parking brake module would need to be replaced, at a cost of £2,172:
I asked Nissan to contribute to the repair
The car was about two weeks out of warranty, they said absolutely no.
I bought a much much cheaper parking brake module from the USA:
The price for the module 360323NA0A was the bulk of the cost, so I ordered a 360323NA0B (The A has been replaced) from the USA where it is only about £300.
The module lives in the hump in the boot, the small brown box here:
This is the module itself, it's easy to remove and replace:
I fitted the new module and took it back to the dealer to activate it:
I tried activating it myself with leafspy and it didn't work. When the dealer tried, it didn't work.
After much arguing with Nissan they put the price of the module in the UK down to only £693, so I had it replaced by the dealer for about £950:
It didn't work
Nissan quoted the replacement of the parking brake actuator at ~£3k. The actuator lives under the boot floor and looks like this:
I asked Nissan to contribute to the cost of this new repair:
They said yes, and agreed to cover the cost of the part but not the labour, so as of Monday (July 13th) my parking brake is fixed and my car passed it's second MOT and celebrated it's fourth birthday. Yes it took almost a year to resolve, for a number of reasons. The cost for the labour and the dealer supplied module were met by the garage that sold me the Leaf, as the parking brake failed just a couple of months after I bought it - they have been very fair and supportive throughout.
Original message below
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Sad times with my leaf yesterday. The display in the instrument cluster was warning that the parking brake was on (it wasn't) the red parking brake symbol was flashing, the red and yellow triangles were illuminated and the light on the parking brake switch was flashing. After a restart the message on the display says "Visit dealer" and all the lights are still on/flashing.
The car is now over three years old so I'm worried this will be very expensive. Also wishing the car had the simple mechanical parking brake from the gen 2...
