Body Appearance – Exterior

Information

• An extensive pictorial tour of the LEAF’s underside: belly pans, motor and its mounts, electrical cabling, suspension and brakes, battery, parking brake, etc.
  Forward underbody panel:
  
  Forward underbody panel, removed:
  
  Forward underbody panel, fasteners:
  
  etc.
• The LEAF’s doors and hood are aluminum, which fact is easily verifiable with a magnet. The roof, fenders and hatch are steel.
• A quick-release bike hitch by mynissanleaf.com member Electric4Me. It requires couple of holes drilled in the plastic bottom shield.
  Here are some pics and a video.
• Another quick-release hitch:
  
• Fit information for Yakima roof rack.
• LEAF with Yakima roof rack
  
• LEAF w/ an INNO bike rack, with pics.
• Torklift Central makes a trailer hitch for the LEAF. Here are some instructions on its installation:
  • http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=175261#p175261
  • http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=175299#p175299
• Nissan LEAF accessories: bra, rear splash guards, etc.
• A towing dolly that works with the LEAF: ACME Tow Dolly Company:
  

Mods

• Red LEAF with Webasto 930 Dual Panel sunroof
  
• White LEAF with mesh grille, blacked out headlights, black “ground effect” pieces, black door handles, Recaro seats:
  
• LEAF accessories on Nissan Japan Web site (translate with Google Translate:
• LED-lit Nissan hood logo
• Blue LED ring around foglights.
• Body kits: front, side, and rear skirts
• Mud flaps
• Window shields
• Locking charge port shield (encloses charge port when charge port cover is open)
• Charge port light
• etc.
• LEAF with aftermarket “shark fin” radio antena, from sharkfinantenna.com
  
• Body side molding in matching LEAF colors, applied with 3M tape.
• Black LEAF with side moldings
  
• Red LEAF with aftermarket door side molding
  
• Cayenne Red 2012 SL LEAF w/ body color side molding
  
• Detailed instructions on installing side moldings.
• White 2011 LEAF w/ matt black “wrap” on hood, roof and hatch
  
  …and information on the “wrap job”.
• Front and rear splash guards:
  

“Ground effects”

• LEAF w/ Nissan aero: front lips and side skirts
  
• White LEAF with front air dam and side skirts
  

License plate

• LEAF w/ license plate mounted tilted back
  
• LEAF w/ license plate mounted in front of radiator
  
• LEAF with license plate mounted on charge port cover
  
• Pics of gominigo‘s “no-hole” front license plate kit: license plate bracket is screwed into the tow hook receptacle.
  Some pics also saved on here:
   
• LEAF with Skene under-bumper license plate bracket
  
• Another front license plate mounting idea
  
• “Opening” above rear license plate is as designed, having no “cover”: it’s present on LEAFs at least up to VIN #7462
  
  However, there is a report of newer LEAF’s having a “small black plastic cover” in that location.

Window tint

• Recommendations for tint:
• Formula One Pinnacle tint
• “Harper Optic ceramic/IR block tint“
• “Madico Wincos“.
• Madico tint (30%, 92% IR reduction, $300)
• Solargard HP Charcoal (?) tint

Pics of LEAFs with tinted windows

• Gray LEAF w/ tint, TEIN Street Basis coilovers, Enkei RP03, 225/45-18 ET48 (1″ spacer in rear), shark fin antena
  
• White LEAF w/ tinted windows
  
• White LEAF with tinted windows and Rays wheels
  
• Silver LEAF with tinted windows
  
• Black LEAF with tinted windows: “30% rear hatch, rear windows, and winglet windows next to the mirrors. 70% on front/side windows”.
• Tint strip applied at top of LEAF’s windshield
  
• 2011 black LEAF with 20% tint:
  
• 2011 LEAF SV, before and after, Formula One Llumar Ceramic PI30 (30%) tint:
  Before:
  
  After:
  
• Silver 2011 LEAF w/ 20% SunTek Carbon tint all around Interwiki: mnl++
  
• White 2011 LEAF Madico tint (30%, 92% IR reduction, $300):
  
• Red L2011 EAF with Solargard HP Charcoal (?) tint Interwiki: mnl++
  
• Blue 2011 LEAF with tinted windows Interwiki: mnl++
  

• Blue 2011 LEAF with tinted windows Interwiki: mnl++
  Before:
  
  After:
  

How-Tos

• Removing forward underbody panel.
• Towing: a LEAF being towed on a dolly behind a motor home:
  
• How to access windshield washer nozzles: “raise hood; insert the screwdriver on the left and right sides of the nozzle in turn and move the handle outwards so that the blade pushes inwards“.
  
• Adding an external quick-release for the charging port’s door, so you don’t need to go inside the car to release the charging port door: a complete step-by-step pictorial DIY.
• How to jack up a LEAF.
• Mounting the front license plate bracket. Interwiki: mnl++
• Removing the large “Zero Emission” sticker: warm it up with a hair dryer, then remove with a plastic razor blade; remove adhesive residues with “Goof Off”.
  The smaller “zero emission” badge’s part number is 80892-3NAQA; it costs about $70.