Recent events and postings by folks on this forum have gotten me wondering about honda IMA and battery issues. I have only read about these with respect to Insights -- but not for the civic or accord hybrid. And also I believe I have only heard about 'recal' in the context of the Insight.

The most obvious reason is that the civic and accord are more recently introduced (2002 and 2005, versus 2000 (I think) for the Insight). And thus they don't have the number of miles on them, in order to run into these types of issues.

But if it is a common issue, that will effect everybody's IMA and battery, then I'm thinking that somebody with a civic or accord might have run into this issue, and might reply to us here.

Or maybe you just have an opinion about why, or why not, those of us who own hybrid civics and accords should be worried. Or not.

It's an important issue because even though Delta Flyer just dodged a 6300 dollar bullet due to the benevolence of his Honda dealer, and Honda itself, I'm not sure the rest of us can expect such a favorable resolution, if the situation arises.