Speaking of recals. I have left my 2002 Insight in auto stop and ran the stereo for over an hour before. This drained the soc to about half, but the car started right back up and I was able to drive off. It force charged for a little while until it was back up to around 2/3 charge and it was fine. Now the other day I went for a ride in my frineds 2001 Insight with a non replaced ECU. He won't let them change it as it makes the IMA way to aggressive for Arizona summer climates. Anyway, we stopped at the bank so he could make a quick run to the ATM. He left me in the car in auto stop for a few minutes while he got his money. We drove off and as we were driving down the road all of a sudden we both noticed the bars on the soc gague were dropping off. I don't think I would put his comment here, but he says that happens when the car is left in auto stop for more than 2 minutes.
So we drove around for a little while eeking every last ounce of regenreative braking possible out of the thing, but it started going in to thermal cut back as the batteries were getting hot, and it kept force charging at lights. I'm just curious if anyone else has noticed this behavior if in auto stop for more than a couple minutes. I've tried to reproduce that in my 2002, but cant'. I wounder if they corrected that with the new ECU's also.
So we drove around for a little while eeking every last ounce of regenreative braking possible out of the thing, but it started going in to thermal cut back as the batteries were getting hot, and it kept force charging at lights. I'm just curious if anyone else has noticed this behavior if in auto stop for more than a couple minutes. I've tried to reproduce that in my 2002, but cant'. I wounder if they corrected that with the new ECU's also.
