[larrybuck]

Thanks for responding and sharing. I was starting to feel a little lonely 😭 I already have the batteries disabled, and I usually drive the insight only on freeways 95% of the time, and I'm still getting like 63 miles per gallon. I could see removing the weight of those batteries might help some. Very interesting what you did. Regarding the CRX hf, I happen to have four steel wheels at home, two are mounted studded tires, and the other two are old beater tires with chains all set up from my previous crx's of a few years back. As they have become quite rare now, first gen anyway, I doubt I will ever use it in the snow. I have tried to look up weights of different Wheels pretty much to no avail. I thought I might have read somewhere that the stock alloy HF wheel might be as low as 7 to 9 lb. I figure the stock steel one is at least twice as much. Don't know if I ever will be able to find another proper HF wheel, but in the meantime, I'm thinking because the CRX is a little bit late by us toward the front, then maybe I should have steel wheels on both sides on the back just so that one side of the car isn't lighter than the other? Or am I just being paranoid, because of my own physical driver weight, one steel wheel on the right rear in my tortured mind still won't equalize the weight. I also am considering trying to find stock DX wheel covers it is very flat and I think more aero looking and more of a finished look than the HF would it's flush type center cap. The latter is just not a very impressive looking wheel. I am delighted to get this rust free car from Eastern Washington because it's so much more Sunny there and dryer than where I live on the west side. But because of that a lot of the paint has severe Sun fade, so I'm even thinking of a turquoise wrap!