It finally happened
Well, after just over 2 years of owning an Ariya pretty much pain free (bar the replacement of the brake shims due to a horrible metal accessing sound when I drove it) it completely died on me yesterday.
I had popped out to pick my daughter up from school in it and all was fine. About 30 minutes later I came out to put a suitcase in the boot. Pushed the boot open button on the fob and up popped the boot. i then went to push the close button and nothing. No beeps, just silence.
Checked the doors and bonnet. All fine. Was able to lock and unlock the doors using the key, so I got into the driver's seat and tried to start the car. Nothing. No dash lights or anything. It kept flashing up telling me to put key near the start button to start but still wouldn't start. Tried the spare key and same story.
Anyway, I used my wife's car to take my daughter to her residential and when I got back I tried the Ariya again. As soon as I opened the door the alarm started going off. I got in and was able to start the car, but the alarm continued to go off so I closed the door, locked it and called breakdown cover.
They turned up this morning and after not being able to work out what was going on, they got me to drive the car to the second choice Nissan dealer, as the one closest to me refused to take it, so I had to drive about 10 miles with the alarm and hazards going off to get it to the dealers.
The weird thing was that on the way the alarm stopped going off and I could move whilst driving, as the internal proximity sensors seemed to sort themselves out. However if I stopped at a junction and pulled off again, the alarm would start going off.
Got it to the dealers and gave them the keys.
I went to have one final check in the car to make sure I hadn't left anything in there, and what do you know? The alarm didn't go off.
I've left it with the dealer and they're looking at it on Monday.
Battery reset was done by the breakdown guy on my driveway but obviously made no difference.
Absolutely no errors on the dash when the alarm was going off and literally nothing when it was initially dead.
I haven't used any public chargers since about 5 weeks ago, and I always just use my granny charger at home.
I thought I'd got lucky after being clear of issues for over 2 years, but here we are...