I have a 2000 Insight with about 50K miles on it. All in all, I'm *very* happy with it, but I am having frequent recal events. I live at the top of a 2,000 foot hill and commute into work at almost sea level daily. At the moment, I get a recal about every three days or so. Sometimes more often, sometimes less, but every 3 days is about the average. These recals happen (as you might expect) when climbing the hill. I never have any on flat ground or going downhill -- only on the climb,
and then usually near or at the top.
Before I found this site I took the car to my dealer. They clearly had no clue what to do about it, and returned the vehicle to me unchanged with instructions to monitor it. How useful.
I'm guessing that a drive up a steep hill at 50 MPH or more is a bit hard on the batteries and I may have worn mine down faster than some others. What I don't know is how bad things have to get before Honda will replace them. They checked the system out and found no stored codes in any of the monitoring systems. Thus, they told me to keep driving it. The problem is that all those recals are hard on mileage. I have to downshift to maintain speed on the hill, and that eats gas. At it's peak my lifetime mileage was 61.1, but is down to 60.3 thanks to a combo of the recals and new tires.
Any advice on how bad this has to get befire it will be fixed -- or what to tell my dealer in order to get this fixed now -- would be appreciated.
--jeffp
and then usually near or at the top.
Before I found this site I took the car to my dealer. They clearly had no clue what to do about it, and returned the vehicle to me unchanged with instructions to monitor it. How useful.
I'm guessing that a drive up a steep hill at 50 MPH or more is a bit hard on the batteries and I may have worn mine down faster than some others. What I don't know is how bad things have to get before Honda will replace them. They checked the system out and found no stored codes in any of the monitoring systems. Thus, they told me to keep driving it. The problem is that all those recals are hard on mileage. I have to downshift to maintain speed on the hill, and that eats gas. At it's peak my lifetime mileage was 61.1, but is down to 60.3 thanks to a combo of the recals and new tires.
Any advice on how bad this has to get befire it will be fixed -- or what to tell my dealer in order to get this fixed now -- would be appreciated.
--jeffp