Hi All,
I have 2 questions.
This is my first winter with my 2003 Insight which I purchased new in April 2004. During the spring, summer, and fall my battery would rconsistently read only a few bars from the top, but now it registers at less than half each time I drive it ( 9 & often less bars). My car has only 3000 miles on it and I'm still driving the same way, on the same roads, not braking or accelerating abruptly, and not even using the heater much. It's not the recal thing going on. Is this "normal" behavior for the battery in winter? I get nervous seeing it go so low sometimes and I wonder if it will not have any bars/ charge left at all. So a few times I've force charged it when I get home ( 3-4 rpms for a few seconds while parked.) A Honda dealer said to do this if the battery gets too low. I'm wondering if this will hurt anything over time.
Also, do people religiously shift when the shift-up indicator comes
on? I notice when I up shift then the assist comes on. Perhaps I'm driving in too low a gear and sucking up too much battery. I do a lot of non-highway type driving in 4th gear or less.
Murasaki
I have 2 questions.
This is my first winter with my 2003 Insight which I purchased new in April 2004. During the spring, summer, and fall my battery would rconsistently read only a few bars from the top, but now it registers at less than half each time I drive it ( 9 & often less bars). My car has only 3000 miles on it and I'm still driving the same way, on the same roads, not braking or accelerating abruptly, and not even using the heater much. It's not the recal thing going on. Is this "normal" behavior for the battery in winter? I get nervous seeing it go so low sometimes and I wonder if it will not have any bars/ charge left at all. So a few times I've force charged it when I get home ( 3-4 rpms for a few seconds while parked.) A Honda dealer said to do this if the battery gets too low. I'm wondering if this will hurt anything over time.
Also, do people religiously shift when the shift-up indicator comes
on? I notice when I up shift then the assist comes on. Perhaps I'm driving in too low a gear and sucking up too much battery. I do a lot of non-highway type driving in 4th gear or less.
Murasaki