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Hello All,
I recently bought a used 2000 Insight for my daily 120+ mile commute. the gas savings is great. However, I think the car might have some problems, but since its so different from any other car, I'm not sure. Can someone tell me if these things are normal.
1. Yesterday I was in bad traffic on a freeway ramp. The car was out of gear with the AC off, and the engine would start and stop by itself. I was just coasting downhill on the ramp, and never touched the gear shift, clutch, or gas pedal. This, along with some other harder to describe symptoms make me suspect that the switch telling the car I am in neutral isn't working well.
2. Sometimes the engine hessitates to start when I put it in gear, but I just read something that makes me think it was my fault. Maybe I wasn't depressing the clutch enough.
3. How quickly should the battery charge drain when using assist up a hill? When I use a lot of assist up a hill the charge lasts for awhile, but when it drops off it drops like a rock. In fact, yesterday I felt the assist let go before the guage dropped from 75% to 0%.
So far, Ive had the car for a week and the check engine light came on once with a O2 sensor code. I cleared it and have had no other problems. The car has 88000 miles, and runs great other then these little quirks.
Thanks.
I recently bought a used 2000 Insight for my daily 120+ mile commute. the gas savings is great. However, I think the car might have some problems, but since its so different from any other car, I'm not sure. Can someone tell me if these things are normal.
1. Yesterday I was in bad traffic on a freeway ramp. The car was out of gear with the AC off, and the engine would start and stop by itself. I was just coasting downhill on the ramp, and never touched the gear shift, clutch, or gas pedal. This, along with some other harder to describe symptoms make me suspect that the switch telling the car I am in neutral isn't working well.
2. Sometimes the engine hessitates to start when I put it in gear, but I just read something that makes me think it was my fault. Maybe I wasn't depressing the clutch enough.
3. How quickly should the battery charge drain when using assist up a hill? When I use a lot of assist up a hill the charge lasts for awhile, but when it drops off it drops like a rock. In fact, yesterday I felt the assist let go before the guage dropped from 75% to 0%.
So far, Ive had the car for a week and the check engine light came on once with a O2 sensor code. I cleared it and have had no other problems. The car has 88000 miles, and runs great other then these little quirks.
Thanks.