honda-hybrid at Yahoo! Groups

Re: Poor mileage

Ron Hansen — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:59:19 GMT

Um... Go to another dealer or an independent mechanic. Seriously! Your dealer is not interested in helping you and won't even check things at this point. Your

Re: honda to re-release the insight???

Jim Isbell, W5JAI — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:36:37 GMT

I own 8 cars, and the Insight has lowered my monthly cost from $240 a month to $40 a month. The $200 saved goes into paying me back for the cost of the

Re: Poor mileage

ted johnson — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:06:33 GMT

Catalytic converter is likely but they usually generate and error code when they plug up, so maybe there is some muffler blockage, dented pipe? Maybe clogged

Re: honda to re-release the insight???

defender — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:39:06 GMT

The sales literature numbers for the Insight's MPG's were much lower than reality. The sales literature MPG's for the Honda Fit are lower than the numbers

Poor mileage

John Brecher — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:38:28 GMT

I have a 2001 Insight with 70,000 miles of which I've driven it the last 60,000. In the last 10,000 the mileage has dropped from 64 in city to 58 to 55 to 45

Re: Poll results for honda-hybrid

Robert Fuller — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:43:22 GMT

Has anyone replaced the struts or shocks on an insight with another brand? if so, name and part # if available. thank you, Bob 02 w/175k ... From:

Poll results for honda-hybrid

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:43:24 GMT

The following honda-hybrid poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: When you need maintenance done on your Insight, who do you go to?

Re: How Europeans travel-diesel

Jose HF Silva — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:09:22 GMT

To me, there is also a certain 'smug feeling' of sporting a max MPG and a min CFP ;-) joe ... From: Alan Bowler Subject:

Re: How Europeans travel-diesel

Alan Bowler — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:18:09 GMT

... If MP$ was the only thing, then we probably wouldn't have the cars we do. We pay for luxury features, also. We even pay some for that smug feeling of not

Re: How Europeans travel-diesel

Jose HF Silva — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:37:26 GMT

That's nice to know, but MPG (or MP$) is what we get (and pay for), isn't'it? joe ... From: ed clement Subject: Re: [honda-hybrid] Re:

Re: How Europeans travel-diesel

ed clement — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:56:39 GMT

Also,a diesel engine at idle is in "lean burn" mode, only much leaner than the air /fuel ratio at which a gasoline engine can sustain

Re: How Europeans travel

Alan Bowler — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:33:36 GMT

... It varies a bit depending on what you consider gasoline and diesel, but say diesel has 15% more energy per gallon. I.e. a diesel engine should get 15%

Here it comes, the all electric vehicle and the compressed air power

jack ravin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:39:59 GMT

Don't know if anyone has seen the latest news from TaTa motors, by the way they just bought Jag and Land Rover, about the electric cars that get 125 miles on a

Re: How Europeans travel

Jose HF Silva — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:51:04 GMT

Very nice question ;-) I think Opel (Astra?) doesn't have such goog performance as VW Polo, anyway.. joe ... From: Eric van Straten

Re: Auto button. Was: Group etiquette

Eric van Straten — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:07:43 GMT

'02 CVT and I take a huge hit when I run the A/C on auto. Live in Indianapolis and the bulk of my driving is city. I've found that putting it on ECONO