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Honda : Insight Standard 2000 honda insight manual trans silver runs awesome many repairs new head gasket

Honda : Insight Standard 2000 honda insight manual trans silver runs awesome many repairs new head gasket

$4,990

Brookfield, Connecticut

Year 2000

Make Honda

Model Insight

Category Hatchback

Mileage 193628

Posted Over 1 Month

This 2000 Honda Insight is running great and it has had several recent repairs and upgrades that should keep it running strong for many years. Here's the history: I bought this car on November 2010 from the original owner. She had all repairs for the car done at the dealership and gave me a fat folder of all the receipts, which I still have. The IMA hybrid battery had been replaced by Honda a year earlier, in November 2009. The spark plugs, tires, front brake pads and rotors had also just been replaced when I bought the car. I gave the car to my daughter who drove it while she was in college. She had one incident with the car that you should know about: in the summer of 2012 while she was in Washington DC for an internship she had a minor accident that damaged the right front of the car. The repairs for that accident were done by Japanese Auto Clinic in Arlington Virginia. They did a fine job and I still have the receipts for their work. In January of 2013 the car started showing symptoms of a blown head gasket, so I replaced the head gasket and had the cylinder head resurfaced. All other gaskets and seals on the top half of the engine were replaced at the same time, and I had the machine shop check the valves and they confirmed that they were fine and needed nothing. After the cylinder head repair the car ran great until the fall of 2014 when the right front axle shaft developed some play. I didn't have any time to do the repair until the following spring so for a period of 5 months or so I canceled the registration and insurance on the car and just kept it in the garage. (I did run the car at least once a week to keep the engine and IMA battery healthy.) I finally got time to replace the axle shaft this August, so I renewed the registration then and have been driving the car for the past 2 months with no problems at all. Other repairs and new parts besides those mentioned above include: new driver's door latch; new Kenwood radio/CD player and 4 matching Kenwood speakers (includes the speakers behind the seats); K&N air filter; new Exide 12 volt batter 4 months ago; the leaky seat belt problem that afflicts nearly all Insights was fixed with new clips from Honda and I also put black window putty in the roof rain channels to keep water out; oil and filter just changed and regular oil changes have always been done with full synthetic oil; red seat covers added; tires just rotated; manual transmission fluid just changed when I did the axle shaft, and changed a year before that also; I have new front brake rotors and ceramic brake pads that I was going to install but then I realized that the current brakes are just fine so you can have these brake pads to install later or if you want I'll be happy to install the parts now after you buy the car; also included is a Genesis One grid charger programmed for this car, and the grid charger harness is installed so you can use it right away. The "Bernie" sticker on the rear bumper covers a 2 inch cut in the plastic bumper. Of course you can replace this sticker with whatever suits your own politics. :) Most of the driver's side was just repainted to cover some scratches that occurred when my son brushed the driveway wall. The paint I used is a very good match (from scratchwizard.com) so it's hard to tell that those panels were repainted. All splash shields are in place under the engine. No check engine light or IMA light. The car runs great and the IMA battery charges completely. Cold and strong A/C and good heat. The clutch is fine. The manual transmission shifts smoothly and cleanly with no grinding or any other problems. Clean title, ready to drive away. This car will serve you well for many more years to come. Please let me know if there are any questions I can answer for you. Thanks

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