Indeed, I have experienced this often. So that's the "dreaded recal". It would seem that neither of my recalls actually addressed this. While I'm having no battery problems yet on my 2000 Honda Insight, I am now in panic mode. Wish I had come to this, or any forum earlier. I have been living in blissful ignorance.

Which brings me to another question given the expense of replacement batteries. Do you know if the IMA can be simply disactivated (and the batteries removed) such that the vehicle can bop around town as a three cylinder ICE vehicle? It would be a travesty to junk it.