Thanks for your advice. I don't know that I have any immediate problems with my battery. If I get two more years out of it I would be satisfied. The recal never happens when I do highway driving. It does however happen when I do only city driving. How often? I don't exactly know because (hides head in shame) I didn't give it the attention that I should have. But I will play closer attention now.

There would be no wrecked Insights in this province. Only a few were ever sold and I purchased the first. My local dealership was not scheduled to receive an Insight back in 2000 but I contacted Honda Canada, managed to test drive one at a Honda convention by crashing it and arrangements were made.

Also any other dealerships would be at least a 1.5 hours drive away and they would have no experience with the Insight. My own dealership keeps asking me if I want to "upgrade" to another vehicle. I suspect they want to avoid the eventual replacement battery dilemma. I don't think they would pay for most of a new battery pack nor would they be willing to disabled the IMA. But it has not come up yet.