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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
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That's not the behavior of a healthy pack.
An unmodified car only monitors SoC when the key is in the On position. It will start showing a few bars of background charging once you get to three bars SoC, so the only way for an unmodded Insight to reach zero or one bars is with a "negative recalibration", i.e. when your pack voltage was found to be below a certain threshold (either under load or at rest) and the BCM decided it was time for you to stop drawing power from it.
You can keep resetting the code until the pack is blackened toast, but you're not going to get good performance out of the pack until you refurb it. The sooner you do so, the easier it will go in terms of how easy the refurb will be and how many cells will be scrap.
And similar to what Bob Wilson said, if you want to bring the Insight over to my (heated) garage for a battery swap or MIMA install day, I'm game.