Ben,

I too have just recently noticed this, although its been "hot" for a while here in the Austin, TX area. Last week I think was the first time I noticed, where I got only 2 bars of assist, and the engine ended up reving to 4k (or more?). The battery level showed about 3/4 charged. Its happened maybe a few times since then, but completly hard to tell when it will only give me a couple of bars, or all the bars. Typically I get 4-6 bars of assist.

Been having a number of "heat" realated issues, as I have noted in previous posts, including the battery not charging back up, auto-stop not working when hot. I made the mistake of taking my car into the dealer to have the odometer fixed (part of the service call for cars made before 2006) and they couldn't reset the odometer, so now I not only drive around with no idea of mileage, but look at a line of dashes for all readings. At least the miles per hour work!

I am thinking that these cars (2006 model at least) were not made to handle the heat in Texas.

Regards,

Bob