Since my own unfortunate experience with Insight IMA failure (on its first day with me), I have scanned about 1/2 the pages in the P & T section of our forum and found at least 20 people who have had issues from 'mystery lights' to complete failure and replacement of the IMA modules. The milage at failure varies wildly from as little as 24,000 (warranry fixed) to as much as 205,000! (That one got his money's worth.) But the common point is, all incedents I found so far, have been with the 2000 & 2001 cars. Anyone out there with a 2002 onward had a failure? Mystery lights that come and go? (Please form a line here _____>
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Could it be that Honda engineering finally noodled out the problem for the '02 onward? My S.W.A.G. is that they found the battery sticks were unscrewing themselves from road vibration, the loose places were causing arching hot spots and failures. Simple fix I would have applied is something as basic as tapeing the cells together end to end after the assembly is together torqued to spec, then into the holder tubes they would go. Or even lock washers.
I sure hope that's the case, since the 'organ donor' IMA pod my car is receiving is from an '04 with 'only one mile' on the clock. I don't know how they'd prove that, since the dash is dead without juice to it. And that it 'wakes up' since there's no telling how long it's really been since it was actively charged up.
Could it be that Honda engineering finally noodled out the problem for the '02 onward? My S.W.A.G. is that they found the battery sticks were unscrewing themselves from road vibration, the loose places were causing arching hot spots and failures. Simple fix I would have applied is something as basic as tapeing the cells together end to end after the assembly is together torqued to spec, then into the holder tubes they would go. Or even lock washers.
I sure hope that's the case, since the 'organ donor' IMA pod my car is receiving is from an '04 with 'only one mile' on the clock. I don't know how they'd prove that, since the dash is dead without juice to it. And that it 'wakes up' since there's no telling how long it's really been since it was actively charged up.