aisbell and others,
thanks for the support and feedback! i just commuted to work with repaired vehicle. Honda installed a new battery pack with the goods needed to use this car for at least another 100,000.0 miles!
with this new battery pack installed, there is only a 12 month/12,000.0 mile warrenty. i asked if another 10 year/156,000.0 mile warrenty would apply, dealer-service man smiled and talked profit loss. he also stated that it cost Honda between $4,600.00 to $7,700.00 to correct this issue, per car. he said he had replaced battery-packs on 3 Insights in 10 years there, one was a '01 Insight with almost 400,000.0 miles on it.
is there a statistically based evaluation of Insight Battery-pack replacements, failure frequency curves, cost analysis per year of manufacture available. i have yet to google search.
thanks again for responces! it was good to get this car on the road again with Honda standing behind their product! now to get the front license plate attached.....
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tomg
