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Old 12-13-2005, 12:32 PM
Double-Trinity Double-Trinity is offline
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Default Re: Any enterprising person want to disable IMA?

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Originally Posted by CGameProgrammer
I guess you've never test-driven an '06 HCH. The car disables IMA when the battery is cold, and it disables regeneration specifically when the battery is 100% full, but only 100%, not even 90%. And it's never been 100% full except when I went down a 4000' gradual slope.
It only disables constant regeneration at 100%!? That's quite ridiculous, I know the '03 model goes to constant-regen at 40%-50% charge, but doing so at 90% charge is absurd. (this actually comes up for me every day as I have an 850' hill climb in my commute with several stop signs on it)

Anyway, this is yet another reason I wish I understood enough about electrical engineering to implement the MIMA system from the Insight on the HCH...
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