{"id":3680,"date":"2014-06-05T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2014-06-04T22:09:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T05:09:12","slug":"jerky-brakes-on-my-nissan-leaf-how-i-got-it-fixed-upgrade-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3680","title":{"rendered":"Jerky Brakes on My Nissan Leaf &#8211; How I Got It Fixed &#8211; Upgrade the App?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BaHyjDOyvjY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For several months now since I had my regular maintenance done on my 2013 Nissan Leaf, I have been experiencing very jerky brakes &#8211; sudden stop and jerk forward &#8211; driving my car. It&#8217;s like having an automatic-transmission car with super-fast idle speed and a digital(on\/off) brake system. I felt bad as my passengers (my wife and daughter) kept complaining that I drove like a novice driver and it&#8217;s making them car sick. But no matter how hard I tried to soft peddle the brake, I would end up braking too short and when I let go slightly the car would jerk forward then stop. Or it would end up braking too slowly and I had to brake hard to avoid rear ending the car in front of me. It was an annoying and frustrating couple of months. I asked other Leaf owners, none of them experienced the same problem. <\/p>\n<p>I decided to bring the car to the dealership last Saturday (5\/30\/14) and was prepared to leave it there until Monday if necessary as the &#8220;Master Tech&#8221; wasn&#8217;t on duty to diagnose this complicated problem. <\/p>\n<p>Within 2 hours I got a call from Paul, the service adviser in Stevens Creek Nissan Dealership that the problem has been fixed with the &#8220;reprogramming of the E-driven I-Brake Control Unit; it was in the service bulletin.&#8221; See invoice below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Nissan-Brake-Invoice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Nissan-Brake-Invoice-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nissan Brake Invoice\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Nissan-Brake-Invoice-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Nissan-Brake-Invoice.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWow, little did I know that the braking system nowadays are more or less run by an on-board computer. That&#8217;s amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Now the car is back to normal and I&#8217;m enjoying driving my Nissan Leaf again, zipping through the freeway during traffic hours on the &#8220;carpool&#8221; lane, to and from work. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong>A couple of things I learned from this experience:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. If you encounter any car problems, search on Internet if there&#8217;s already a &#8220;service bulletin&#8221; outstanding that can address your specific car problem. I found that I could have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ownersite.com\/tsb\/tsbs.cfm\/2013\/NISSAN\/LEAF\/\">found it on Internet<\/a> and brought it to the dealership earlier instead of experiencing months of embarrassment. Make sure you have your car year\/model and &#8220;service bulletin&#8221; key words. For example, for me it&#8217;s &#8220;nissan leaf 2013 service bulletin brake&#8221; for the Google search string.<\/p>\n<p>2. More and more of the modern car or household appliances are run by computer. The upside is that the fix may be just a simple software upgrade and you&#8217;re back in business. The downsize that as the car is increasingly connected to the Internet as my Nissan Leaf is connected via 3G network, there may be more security\/safety issues if someone can practically hack into your on-board car computer and cause a serious safety problem, e.g. by disabling the brake when you&#8217;re cruising on the freeway, and etc. The consequences could be deadly. It&#8217;s something we engineers need to pay special attention in our design work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several months now since I had my regular maintenance done on my 2013 Nissan Leaf, I have been experiencing very jerky brakes &#8211; sudden stop and jerk forward &#8211; driving my car. It&#8217;s like having an automatic-transmission car with super-fast idle speed and a digital(on\/off) brake system. I felt bad as my passengers (my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jerky Brakes on My Nissan Leaf &#8211; How I Got It Fixed &#8211; Upgrade the App?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3696,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/3696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}