We're really enjoying our Insight, but I have several questions. #2 and #4 are biggies.
1. Multi-trip MPG Display?
2. How to Tell If CMBS Functioning?
3. Speed Limit Sign in Center Info Panel?
4. Engine Algorithm Changed? (This is a repeat of a comment I posted in another thread; sorry for the duplication!)
5. Which displays do you use for the dashboard and the center console?
1. Multi-trip MPG Display?
Is there any of showing the MPG for the last three or four trips, along with the miles driven for each? Heck, I’d even take the last two trips, if it would show the miles driven.
2. How to Tell If CMBS Functioning?
How can I tell if the Collision Mitigation Brake System is working? I test drove a Honda Accord Hybrid during our shopping for a new car and found that it was phenomenally good at warning you when you were going a bit too fast relative to the car ahead of you, say one that had slowed down or stopped or was slowly making a turn. Alas, in the Insight, the orange BRAKE warning never seems to come on, even in situations when it did with the Accord. I’ve now changed the setting for it from Normal to Long and, finally, the other day, it came on once, but it still rarely comes on in situations when I know it should and where it did with the Accord.
3. Speed Limit Sign in Center Info Panel?
Is there any way of showing the Speed Limit sign in the center console (information display)? That’s a request from a front-seat passenger.
4. Engine Algorithm Changed? (This is a repeat of a comment I posted in another thread; sorry for the duplication!)
Did Honda change the algorithms for when the gas engine kicks in? Or, is there a difference with the EX trim? Or, are there variations among units?
In our test drives of an early LX, the car was entirely silent, even when pressing down on the accelerator and going up hills. In fact, we couldn’t understand what any of the fuss was about the Insight’s engine making noise. In a later LX, IIRC, and in the EX we test drove on the very same route as the first LX, and eventually bought, the noise was noticeable under certain conditions, more so in the EX.
The noise also seems to have gotten worse the more we have driven the car.
In our test drives of an early LX, the car was entirely silent, even when pressing down on the accelerator and going up hills. In fact, we couldn’t understand what any of the fuss was about the Insight’s engine making noise. In a later LX, IIRC, and in the EX we test drove on the very same route as the first LX, and eventually bought, the noise was noticeable under certain conditions, more so in the EX.
The noise also seems to have gotten worse the more we have driven the car.
5. Which displays do you use for the dashboard and the center console?
I’ve defaulted to showing the Trip A Fuel Economy meter on the dash (or whatever the one is called that shows miles traveled and MPG) and showing the Trip Meter with instant MPG on the current trip on the center console.