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Old 05-23-2016, 05:16 PM   #4 (permalink)
samwichse
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You can drive an HCH1 with a failed battery. But I wouldn't do it in the CVT version.

*It will be gutless: oh yes. Forget about ever turning on the A/C if you want to pull away from a stoplight, BTW.
*12v battery charging: It will only charge the 12v battery if the engine RPMs are above 1300 and below about... 4000. This sounds fine, unless you live like me where there's lots of traffic (and thus, idling). Idle on the car is around 650 rpms, so if you want your 12v not to die a quick death, you'll have to hold the gas in a bit at idle (and waste a lot of gas).
*Lean burn: Disabled with a bad IMA. Why? Honda: "Because **** you, that's why."
*Power: Very sparse... you can compensate pretty well in a MT with clutch slipping and running up the RPMs. The CVT will still try and shift like the power map still includes the IMA... meaning chug-chug-chug trainlike starts.

Sam
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