I imagine that these two cars were twins, but separated at birth. The Hybrid was raised in the City. And the Diesel was raised in the Country. 😂😅😂😅

Rodent or marsupial, but definitely not a cow , great job Jimbo

The Robot Cantina: where different is still interesting. Many Thanks

Good Morning Cantina freaks...!!

I'm so happy you got this little beauty from me! I've loved seeing you get out going again. ❤

Jimbo, on the diag. Don't think anyone else could put a video out on the process, and we'd actually watch it. The man, is a wizard.

My next door neighbor had a 1st gen Insight that she bought brand new when I was a kid. At the time she had a pretty sizable daily commute that was about 75% freeway and she averaged 65-70+mpg with it for many many years. She loved that little car. She had the original hybrid battery replaced around 150k miles when they were still available, but by time that one failed somewhere north of 325k they were no longer available and the car was parked. Had I known how simple the packs actually are, I might have been interested in trying to fix it, but unfortunately that car is long gone.

Best part of Sunday morning. Besides coffee!

These cars were so far ahead of their time and are still true gems.

Jimbo, you've created the most helpful, informative, and useful commercial I've ever seen. I'm seriously thinking about buying the product now that I know how versatile it is. Thank you for the deep dive and congrats on the sponsor. Your integrity tells us you won't shill for something unless it exudes utility. We appreciate you brother. Keep on keeping on.

Jimbo, your show brings back "Saturday morning cartoons " vibes. You and Ants Canada with the Rainforest Vivarium are something I look forward to every weekend. Thanks for the stories and entertainment.

It's fascinating how that hybrid system still works after so many years and miles! If only today's cars were of such quality!

Jimbo my man! It’s 9pm Sunday evening in Perth Western Australia and your new video drops are the highlight of the night!

Great episode - I love the cleverness of the IMA on these. It's brilliant technology today - in 1999 it was unbelievably cutting edge. Amazing that a simple hungry marsupial could cause so many faults...

Thanks for showing off that Ancel scanner. It's cool to see what seems to be a pretty good scanner that is within striking range of my limited budget.

Yet more validation of how well engineered Honda product is.

Great Video, Jimbo. I appreciate the way you broke down the troubleshooting process. Looks like you got a nice little gas saver. Looking forward to more Diesel Videos.

A nice episode again. I love the citroënesque Honda with its quirky technique… ♥️🇯🇵♥️

man, the amount of insight your giving us is really off the charts!

Nice to know the Insight wasn't in as bad of shape as you first thought! Might make a nice spare vehicle for some odd dang reason.

Love the detail you went into to show off the Ancel, I've got to admit that it's very similar in function to the Topdon I've got access too and so far has done everything I've needed. Good to see these coming down in price also, it's difficult to be a DIY mechanic without diagnostics in this day and age!

One of my favorite channels... inspiration for my retirement in a few years ...

Really enjoyed that video, learned alot about how those diagnostic machines can assist trouble shooting. Thanks R. C.

Well . . . this is nice too. Not bad to mix it up from time to time to break the routine and monotony. Good detective job, Jimbo ! ☝😊👍

12:56 I appreciate the comedic use of the windows error sound 😆

I really like those little cars. Nice to see this one remains original. Thanks for the video.

Awesome. I am very happy to see a promo in your video. You deserve it. I am going to look into this for my daughter, who wants to start her own mobile mechanic business.

Awww. I was really getting into the groove of it and boom episode done. 😔 but I enjoyed every second of it none the less. 😃

Hey Jimbo. Thanks for sharing another great video with us. Love your work 👍

Another great video, I'm so pleased that there seems to be some life in the hybrid system, that is great news. These cars really are quite amazing and the more I learn about them, the more impressed I am. Real trail-blazing technology in a well engineered Japanese combination, so typical of what they've done for passenger cars the world over. I can't wait for the next episode.

Can we just take a second to appreciate the graphics and design of the dash?

Definitely enjoy channel sponsors that are relevant, thanks Jimbo

"Robot Cantina is going to be running a Honda Insight with Kubota engine. And on top of that he just came into junk yard and found a stupidcharger pully, with an intercooler, and a cobbled together exhaust." 🏎️

That the entire monkeypack on that thing works is proof that hybrids can be done right and companies just aren't bothering.

Sounds like you got a killer deal on that insight. Glad to see it properly functioning!

That was super cool! I've always wanted an insight, so it's particularly exciting to see more about both of the ones you have.

I am so impressed that the battery still works, love the video, diagnosing is fun (in the end when you find the problem)😄

Nice video and great progress on the new insight. Luckily people just parked instead of unloading the parts cannon and doing the poke and hope on the wiring harnesses.

And now that we are doing real Honda stuff I’m subscribed lol 😂❤

Hey if the hybrid works, it's a keeper!

Nice to know it wasn’t cow damage!

It seems to be a surprisingly good working extremely complicated car.

Love this guy and his wickedly ingenious ideas, plus he has zero fear of diving deep in the learning curve! In the end knowledge is always gained.

This car is in really good shape!

Okay , I have had my robot cantina for the day and my coffee , now to go tinker with the turbo and it be the perfect day 😅 .. peace and love jimbo keep it rad stay safe and build on brother ... much love ad respect bro l8z and keep having Fun

Great diagnostic demo. Excellent video. High Bread.

Wow, after repairing those 3 wires this car went from problematic to being a complete steal. :)

Now you have a working factory spec insight, how does the fuel economy on your usual route compare to the go-cart engine powered ones?

That was super interesting. I wish that every repair shop would work on their customer's car car with the same insight 😉 and dedication.

following this series has made me want to get a 1st gen honda insight but sales numbers in europe are under 500 units sold so unlikeley that i will find one but i wil keep looking

Can’t wait to see you squeeze a Kubota head gasket out with all that AMR500 boost! I can dream, right?

Most enjoyable ad i have ever watched

Wow, it’s just that easy! Well as long as you don’t have to do the work tearing the dash apart and then reassembling it…

kinda pleased the hybrid stuff is working! 😅 thats quite impressive for such an old car!

Bro just had me watch a 15min ad and I'm not mad.

Yay Little Honda! Only 4k to 150,000 subscribers!

Thanks Jimbo. The stuff you do just makes me happy. You put it across in such a way that I think " I can do that". Gives confidence, both my cars are 20 and 17yrs old respectively, so the ancel scanner might well be worth a punt

When I averaged 109mpg (US) in my stock 2000 Insight (over 92 miles), I was going 38mph on a 35mph road (in ideal conditions, including no wind). I never drive slower than the speed limit on a single lane road just to get good economy, and when there's lots of speeding traffic on the highway I stick to the slow/travel/through lanes and match pace with the traffic there.

I would drive myself nuts looking for that OBD port 😂

I saw the Honda NSX listed, which was from the end of the 80s or early 90s..It was a mid engined,v6,rear wheel drive which was a pretty cool car that Honda eventually sold as the Acura NSX.. My neighbor bought one new and that car would fly,or I thought it would up until he traded it in 6 months later and bought a twin turbo Porsche Carrera which really would fly.. 😁

Always a fine Sunday morning with Robot Cantina shenanigans. 👊🤙

The AF ratio can get down to 22:1 in this car thanks to that extra sensor. It has a second, special cat to adsorb the pollution from lean burn and periodically burns it off. I love the auto engine cutoff, the car gets so quiet. It'll cut off when you put the car into neutral below a certain speed (I think it's around 15 to 20mph). The electric motor starts the engine back up smoothly and nearly instantly when you put it from neutral back into gear. It won't auto-shutoff if the engine's still cold, or if the AC is on (unless you select 'ac off' mode on the climate control), and the engine will start up again (possibly briefly) if the brake boost vacuum gets too weak. Steering is fully electric so you don't lose power steering either.

I remember you saying the stuff came back to life after you found the rodent damage. you'd think after all the years it's been a problem they might use insulation the mice didn't like to chew on. But at least, besides having to tear out the dash, it's an easy fix, and likely lowered the price of the car tremendously. glad you got it worked out.

👍 very cool work. You are a sharp guy!

I have a 2003 Civic Hybrid with the 5 speed transmission. I got it a couple years ago with about 125k on it. I commute 40 miles to work every day and love the fuel economy, even though it's a bit off the 51 mpg estimate at a bit over 40. I know it would be better if I kept the speed down heading into work, but 40 mpg at the speed limit for my area is still pretty good. First time I got in it and turned the key, I wasn't expecting the IMA motor to start the engine. In the time I've had it, I think it's used the physical starter only a couple times. Also, with the auto stop, at least for my Civic, I have a button labeled econ, that, when turned off manually or forced off by running the defroster, will disable the auto stop feature. I typically leave it on and will just wait at traffic lights in 1st if I want to keep it (and the AC) running. One other interesting feature I've found is that if it stalls when taking off from a stop, I can restart it by shifting out of 1st/reverse and back without touching the key.

I appreciate that you're letting your inner car-diagnosis-nerd out to play lately in your videos! Opposite of you "dumbing down" and summarizing how you're reading and processing the data, I'd like you to get even nerdier. We can handle it lol (and I'd wager a lot of us here are techs ourselves and look for every opportunity to learn a new trick)

Thanks for all the entertaining videos. I look forward to watching every week.

As always rc comes through! Great job+

Once again, I'm so happy you got this car. I have an 03 civic Hybrid and I was also surprised how the electric motor works as a starter. I have an Ancel FX8000 myself it really helped me solve alot of problems. It's not bluetooth or touchscreen but it paid for itself the 1st time I used it

Good stuff Jimbo, thanks for sharing your videos. 👍

I bet when you removed the dash and found the nest its was an oh f$#& moment and a relief when you discovered the broken wires. huge win! hopefuly the engine isn't all rusted and gunked up and everything survived that way. id pull the valve cover off just out of paranoia.

Honda vehicles are known for their transmissions failing without very good fluid and filter service intervals. Keep up with those fluid and filter changes for the extra mileage life you desire out of them👌

It'd be so cool to figure out a way to assemble a Li battery pack for one of these Insights that is the same weight or maybe a touch bigger, that can be plugged in and see how that would effect the performance and economy, maybe even figure out how to use bigger more powerful electric drive motors for better performance, re-gen and range in conjunction with the a modern Li battery pack made with 18 650 cells. Years ago I leased a Ford Focus Electric for the tax incentives in GA for my g/f to drive to work with. I always wanted to get one cheap and put an LS4 5.3L V8 attached to an F40 6 speed manual transaxle in the rear of one of those cars. It would be perfect because all the accessories are handled by the existing electric drive system, AC, power steering, vacuum for the brakes, that car was liquid cooled for the batteries and the LS4 doesn't have a provision for a starter on the engine, it was attached to the auto transmission, so when attached to the F40 I would just get the car moving electrically, trun on the ignition, put it in gear and dump the clutch to start the engine. Also that car comes up as emissions exempt even in the most environmentally strict states so, I could port the heads, do a huge cam, up compression, long tube headers, no cats, use a sideways pancake dual in dual out muffler behind the rear bumper, the engines could be a bit high strung since low speed driving can be done all electric and it would have torque fill accelerating using the front electric motor and the engine at the same time.

I saw your channel found its way to a Google article on my feed! I’m really happy for you jimbo!!!

Jimbo is just an ocean of regular automotive knowledge. Also as always must comment on how entertaining you can make fixing 2 hidden wires not chewed on by cows

I hope you're happy and I hope you got a kickback from me clicking the link to purchase one. But I needed a new scan tool and your video was informative enough to convince me to buy this one

I’m happy your finding good subjects for filler episodes while your building main episodes.

Been waiting all week for church! Here we go!

Nice troubleshooting.

Always loved the ZE1 Insight

Great episode on the stock Honda Impact. When you get the diesel Impact finished, you could get another driver and have a drag race 🎉 Wonder which car would win🤔

Really awesome videos as always.

Now that was a quality ad read my friend!

I have a cheapie Bluetooth dongle that uses a free app. It shows basic data and can clear codes. I'm intrigued to see what a $350 diagnostic tool can do compared to $1000+ diagnostic tools I've used before.

You’re not a shade tree mechanic. Awesome work

Cool tool! Thanks for the demo. I'll click the link in case that will be worth something to you. Sold my plug-in Energi so I've got no use for one

15:53 definitely an interesting piece of tech

Great video, thanks for the tip.

You are nailing it buddy. 👍🏻

I've got a 2000 Honda HR-V and the starter signal is the same on that. The signal from the key goes to the ECU. It has regular gasoline engine, not a hybrid, so it might have been a design choice that Honda made for multiple models.

Earliest I've ever been to one of your videos! Too bad it's because I've been awake for 21 hours straight. Insomnia >:(

Loved the auto repair content, greetings from Brazil!

Leave it to a Rodent to only find and chew up the starter and fuel pupm wires in a harness behind the dash... Its amazing that the Hybrid stuff still works after not being in the car for years. Battery must be robust and not care that much.

I owned the same gen insight. Make sure to take note of the battery charge if you keep the ima computer system. It will slowly discharge the lawn mower battery under the hood if it throws the dreaded ima code. How I got around it was unplugging one the computers in that battery pack that would cause it to throw a different code(forgot which one). I drove the car a year safely after that until that secondary starter wore out and I had to push start the car at random times. Also being a manual I had the dreaded input shaft bearing failure that's also common on all the Hondas during these years. I also remember cleaning out all the carbon in that intake sandwich plate which helped the car stay in lean burn mode. All in all I loved the car just literally everything was going bad at once. I later on bought a 2019 insight and drove all over the country in that vehicle. Vehicle sadly got totalled in a rear end collision and now I have a 2022 accord hybrid. All have been great vehicles, love my Hondas. Love your videos! Haven't missed an episode in years! Wish you could get your hands on an old gm ev1 if the government didn't smash all of them 😢

Thanks for the Sunday morning fun....cheers

We love you Jimbo!

Great job.

I love these old Honda Cars. You actually have a really cool treasure there.

A good break from the usual,thanks for the lesson🤗😎🤗😎

When I drove my insight back in the early 2k, it took a long time but 107 mph was as fast as it would go. And as the IMA battery ran down 93 mph on level ground was it. No, it's no rocket ship. But I achieved 70 mpg on the highway and 62 mpg around town. I lived in NJ at the time. Mostly flat, but if I lived in lets say NE PA with the steep mountain roads, the 73 hp (with the IMA BATTERY POWER)of the Insight will not ( as I say ) pull the skin off a bowl on RICE PUDDING!!!! LOL😂. Like most of my rides, I wish I never sold it.