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5-year update
5 years since the last post... time for a thread bump!
Did you end up getting the manual trans Civic hybrid, KrautBurner?
My parents ended up giving their Civic to my brother. It's still running on that 3rd battery pack and closing in on 300k km = 186k miles. The engine is getting a little rattly. And the body is pretty beat up (teenage kids) and starting to get rusty around the edges.
I drove it this week for the first time in a long time, owing to everybody in the extended family swapping cars around for various reasons.
For me to enjoy driving it, I need a way to defeat IMA assist. In a manual trans Civic/Insight, it's easy: do the clutch switch (Calpod) mod! IMA computer sees "clutch pedal is down, therefore no assist!" ... regardless of what all the other sensors are reporting.
I don't use regen enough -- I anticipate red lights & slowdowns and do a lot of coasting -- so I don't do enough high-current regen/braking to make up for all the little assists. As a result the car often goes into "recharge mode" to top up the pack.
I tried a couple of things.. thinking maybe if I lightly pressed the brake while accelerating it would cancel assist? That doesn't work. Same with having the handbrake lightly engaged.
Time to research... what does google say...
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