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Old 02-04-2010, 06:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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UltraHatchy - '00 Honda Insight 5spd
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Sulfur smell from 2000 Insight

There are a couple of posts in the 2010 insight section in InsightCentral, but very little about the sulfur smell in their gen 1 that wasn't speculation about an overheating CVT.

Mine is a 2000 MT with 111k miles. I was driving up a long hill at night. A friend was following. He told me later that my car smelled like sulfur. We didn't encounter any other cars on the road on that hill, so I hesitate to doubt him. He was also alone in his car and therefore had nothing to hide by pinning the sulfur smell on my car.

I have an 80% lower grill block, a IMA bypass switch which works off of the clutch circuit, and the ScanGauge was reading between 197 and 202f. Nothing out of the ordinary for hill climbing.

I've never smelled the smell myself.

Any thoughts? I do have a P0420 code which is an 02 sensor issue. I think it's the upper 02, but it might be the one in the cat.

Thanks
Patrick

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