The items in Beta package were sidesteps, trunk tray, footwell light and sports pedal only.

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Fart means releasing a good amount of dirty air from stomach via a$$hole. In a car, its a no no. I always keep mine until the next stop.

Is there any vibration comes with the grinding noise? And does the noise reflects the road condition you're traveling on?

If the grinding noise/ harshness come and go, its your road & tyres. If its consistent no matter on any pavement surface, you might have some problem.

Big tips everytime taking home new car/s: Deflate the tyres according to manufacturer recommendation. All new cars were super inflated to prevent tyre dead spot when ship or store.

Are u confirm its the sound of electric motor? What are your current mileage? Please refer back to Honda. I hope its an isolated case or we're all doom.

Nice plant. Will it die when ECON mode off?

I've tested. Even overreved the engine to look for any weird noise. I like CVT but the over rev part is not really desirable.

Seems like everything going smooth.

About the tyre, u're running 315kpa before didnt you notice the front suspension quite hard and wood'y?

Lets count. 4 items. RM1100. Let say they are each evenly priced at rm275 each:

Footwell light: Not worth it. U can buy any led (Less than rm50), tap illumination and put there.
Trunk tray: Not really worth it. Outside can get around RM150-200 if have, with similar quality.
Sports pedal: Could be worth it. Ori Momo pedals also cost similar.
Sidestep: Worth it. Got molded plastics and chrome plating with Hybrid wording. The rear one seems too small however. If got outside also not very nice & normally just fabricated from sheet metal without plastic part.

The non-worth package surely modulo kit at 4.5k without front grill or spoiler.

I think its the other way round. Extended tax exemption will enable more units to be sold, better support and parts availability, better exposure of the models to the public (more people will test their friends or their aunt or their grandfather's Insight and found that the Insight is reliable and really save fuel), results in higher demand for 2nd hand unit.

If very limited units sold (only ours few thousand units), service & parts limited, lots of people dont know and dont have the chance to test its frugality, Insight will become niche, less demand, lower resale value.

The best if later Honda assemble the car here, parts will become even cheaper, even if Insight as popular as Myvi, ours will become really precious as its a CBU unit. See Jazz CBU 2003-2004 now still fetch above rm50k albeit very old car.

This post has been edited by watonk: Apr 19 2011, 10:07 AM

I purposely mislead the pricing to justify my sidestep purchase. Haha.

My insight for next year, tax exemption will still here. However, when Proton, Perodua or Naza (local players) market their own hybrid, they will re-impose the tax.

Honda will have to increase the price to let say, 130k. But to keep competing in hybrid market, by then they will include features like trunk light (&$(%#!!), auto door lock (^#(&$$!!), pedal shifters, reverse camera, better sound system maybe navi unit, more choices of colours, auto hatch release, real 'keyless' entry and push start button. They might even push the engine to 1.5 IMA with higher capacity motor and battery with extended full electric range. Not to forget, motorized AC.

Try look around this thread whether they know was causes the noise or they have solution for it
http://www.insightcentral.net/forums/troub...60-rattles.html

Using Philip screw driver, there's a slot on top side of the headlamp (for right lamp near windshield washer cap). Slot in your screw driver and turn your screwdriver anticlockwise.

The screw for the height adjustment (the one with metal gearing) should turn clockwise = tighten the aim screw = elevate the aim of low beam.

Try to adjust the beam with your leveling switch (inside the car) set to 1 or 0. This is to make sure you have enough freeplay for the motorized mechanism to lower the beam when the car is fully loaded = rear heavy = low beam aim higher and cause glare to other motorist.

Ruler of thumb; right beam should be slightly lower than left beam. Every new car have such setting.

No problemo bro. Hows the progress. Please call me when u comedown to Kluang. Welcome to the club

They called it 'the lurch'.

Its the moment when the CVT goes 'neutral' when the car going to stop. It releases the regen braking, hence the car suddenly felt 'free' at a very low speed/ almost stop. Its a quirk initially but now i have gotten use to it and actually very helpful during jam, u have extra momentum to creep to the car infront while auto-stopping.

The lurch more pronouns when u switch econ on and if youre stopping from a very high speed.

http://www.insightcentral.net/forums/troub...8171-lurch.html

That cobra no 6518 is the security aaa? I thought what number is that.

Now i'm going to declare my no plate. Ready......

Then Malacca gomen easier get hybrid spareparts.

Kidding oni....

Yea alan got the car! alan got the car!

Kari next week ok

Yep. mine and the test drive unit at my place like that also. I dont mind as the wipers wipe to the right and seems everything can be clean easily.

Make sense if they do it on purpose. Just like right beam lower than left to reduce glare from oncoming motorist.

These are the details that i like about japanese car/ product. Everything was design with thought. Even the washer tank have level strip, and rounded at the end to prevent the strip from folding or bend when inserting it back into the tank. Theres a lot of other small details that u will only realize when u give a real thought on it. When even these small details were properly thought of, im pretty confident that the car has been properly engineered. Hopefully.

Somehow they didnt think that we need trunk light and auto door lock.

I regret for getting white...

Always wanna look at the car. Too nice to be true. Even my wife starting to notice that my love is unjustly divided

My observation so far on a merely 2k km Insight.

Long journey/highway @ average 120km/h = 20-22km/l
Short journey (less than 10km. Lot of stop and jam) = 15-16km/l
The best is medium journey @ 80-90km/h = 24-25km/l

Anybody from KL already wired their trunk light? Where & cost?