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It's pretty common to have a bad IMA battery and the IMA motor still charges the small battery, but the problem is theres no alternator. When the IMA motor dies you're done. My bright idea was to install an alternator on one of these, I think it's been done now.
One cold winter day about 4-5 years ago 4 hybrid hondas came in. All were dead to the point where they could not run on the gas engine, each had 1 or more of of bad IMA batteries, IMA motors and DC-DC converters. 1 was towed home, I charged the small battery on one enough that that they could drive home, the other 2 went straight to scrap.
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