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Old 04-21-2008, 06:10 PM
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Gone all Enviromental
 
Real Name: Jimbolio
Location: UK
Hybrids: Honda Civic IMA Exec
Posts: 2
Default Re: Engine cut out problem

Thanks for the reply. But you are right, they did answer it first.
well they simply told us the engine cut off was working but not how to actually activate it. that took a while to work out for ourselves.
Our car is the Manual transmission version so it is a bit different from the automatic.
As you are coming to a stop you have to apply the break and then Clutch while putting into neutral the engine cuts off. You then coast using the break to slow you to a stop.
You then sit there in complete silence with the Bright Green engine stop light dazzling until you push the clutch in full and nudge into gear where you feel the low rumble of the engine kick back in automatically. My God That is such a sexy noise Just the fact that the technology works so well. I just love the fact that it is saving me money everytime that engine stops at a traffic light or junction. As for the Yellow light, It was because I pulled the fuse FI-ECU, The car got a strop on with me because I did that.

Dealer simply plugged it into the Laptop and cleared the error code then told me not to play with fuses in the future. And didnt even charge me a penny.
Are all Honda Dealers so generous??
Oh i just love that car now I know it all works ok.

Speaking to dealers receptionist, she told me that I have got myself a bargain with that car. Just 3 years old and less than a third of the price of a new one. She said that 88,000 miles on the clock was nothing to be concerned with because that model is built to run for 500,000 YES Half a million miles before anything should go wrong with it as long as it gets it's regular dose of Honda Servicing..

I now drive along and see all those guys in their Merc's BMW's and Jags and think hey you really do feel like you are so cool driving those big Gas guzzling monsters but my car is better!! Then I look at the Odometer and work out that I have done over 400 miles on just half a tank of petrol and think to myself, They now look like Fkuni idiots..

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I got a Hybrid for two reasons.
1, Because every penny I do not give to the Greedy B A s @ rd British Government in Fuel Duty makes me smile just that little bit more.
2, I seem to have gone all enviromental since I worked out how much I have helped the enviroment setting up my little website at www.clp300.com
So saving the enviroment actually makes and Saves money?? WOW
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