Hello All.
I live in Oakland Ca, and have a 2000 Citrus Yellow with 90k miles. My battery started to really suffer at about 84k. A couple of recals per week, and I'd run a full battery down to two bars on a long freeway onramp.
So, I was stoked when I got my warrenty extension letter from Honda. My insight went to the shop and got both control modules replaced, but NO battery pack. My IMA light has never come on. The bummer is that since I got the new modules, my lifetime average of 58.5 is in danger. I can drive carefully now and get 60+ miles on a tank, but since the module 'upgrade' its all that I can do to struggle with 50mpg. With the current state of my battery pack, the car is driving in a 'forced charge' situation about 1/2 the time.
Surprisingly, before I could call Honda America, the dealer called me out of the blue 2 weeks after doing the control modules.....asking, "is everything o.k.". I said, no, and told them my situation, and that I felt stuck waiting for an IMA light to come on for a new battery. The service person said, "we don't need an IMA light to replace your battery pack, so lets go you starte on ordering one'. I said GREAT!.
The next week, the dealer called for me to bring it in. However, once there, confusion arose...Honda Techline said that they had no extra batteries online, and if there was no IMA light, no dice. [the car will charge, hold a charge, not overcharge] So, off I went with a false hopes dashed, along with some wasted time of taking the car and leaving with dealer.
So, I called Honda America. They created a case number, called back a week later and said very sweetly, "no battery". The she gave me some line about how the car may learn new control module behavior and mpg may improve over the next six months. What?
so, I'm stuck with crappy mpg dragging down my LTA, a gimpy battery that is often in forced charge and almost daily recal events. Its making not want to drive the car at all....and spend more time in my biodiesel truck. Sadly, none of my toyota hybrid friends are having any problems to point to.
Gee Honda, thanks for slapping new control modules on my car to 'save' my battery from deteriorating after it already is. Now i'm stuck with it.
I want my old control modules back!
Anyone else with the same problem?
I live in Oakland Ca, and have a 2000 Citrus Yellow with 90k miles. My battery started to really suffer at about 84k. A couple of recals per week, and I'd run a full battery down to two bars on a long freeway onramp.
So, I was stoked when I got my warrenty extension letter from Honda. My insight went to the shop and got both control modules replaced, but NO battery pack. My IMA light has never come on. The bummer is that since I got the new modules, my lifetime average of 58.5 is in danger. I can drive carefully now and get 60+ miles on a tank, but since the module 'upgrade' its all that I can do to struggle with 50mpg. With the current state of my battery pack, the car is driving in a 'forced charge' situation about 1/2 the time.
Surprisingly, before I could call Honda America, the dealer called me out of the blue 2 weeks after doing the control modules.....asking, "is everything o.k.". I said, no, and told them my situation, and that I felt stuck waiting for an IMA light to come on for a new battery. The service person said, "we don't need an IMA light to replace your battery pack, so lets go you starte on ordering one'. I said GREAT!.
The next week, the dealer called for me to bring it in. However, once there, confusion arose...Honda Techline said that they had no extra batteries online, and if there was no IMA light, no dice. [the car will charge, hold a charge, not overcharge] So, off I went with a false hopes dashed, along with some wasted time of taking the car and leaving with dealer.
So, I called Honda America. They created a case number, called back a week later and said very sweetly, "no battery". The she gave me some line about how the car may learn new control module behavior and mpg may improve over the next six months. What?
so, I'm stuck with crappy mpg dragging down my LTA, a gimpy battery that is often in forced charge and almost daily recal events. Its making not want to drive the car at all....and spend more time in my biodiesel truck. Sadly, none of my toyota hybrid friends are having any problems to point to.
Gee Honda, thanks for slapping new control modules on my car to 'save' my battery from deteriorating after it already is. Now i'm stuck with it.
I want my old control modules back!
Anyone else with the same problem?