Roger, mine does the same thing. I don't have MIMA and I'm not even grid charging it but when I drive and provide enough regen and drive to avoid assist to get all 20 bars and then run it down with heavy assist, it hangs at 3 bars for a short period of assist longer than it normally would for a few bars to go by and then assist cuts and it slowly drops the final bars indicating empty. I was then able to regen and get it charged all the way full. I haven't had any recalibrations in the 2000 miles or so that I've owned mine either. The battery is 3 years old, has an updated BCM from the recall and has about 65,000 highway miles on the battery based on what the previous owner had to say about it.
Since it seems that it's in good shape, I think adding a buddy pack wouldn't be a bad idea, but I'm waiting for the warranty to drop out in June before I proceed with a grid charger. For all I know a grid charger(slightly higher powered) and MIMA might just be all I need to accomplish what I want to do.
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2000 MT Insight "Silver Sipper"
2000 MT Insight Silver "Clone"
Last edited by MN Driver; 03-24-2010 at 09:24 PM.
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