Sawbite or dogbite is, can't remember which one is lower, but one of them has 5k miles or less last I knew.

 

Sawbite has 21 miles on it. Just checked in on her last month.

 

My red 2001 Insight has 95,000 km (59,000 miles).

 

I think Jime has one that is under 4k. I can't remember

 

That's either sawbite or dogbite as I said before.

 

About 103,000 km on mine.

There's one in the UK being offered for sale with only 63k miles, but the asking price looks unrealistic: Honda Insight | in Exeter, Devon | Gumtree

 

That is pretty good for me if only a handful was named with lower 😀

 

Mine‘s at 37k miles, but it’s a very late car.

 

I’ve got a red 2002 five speed manual with 62,000 miles

compared to a car with 212,000 miles it’s like a brand new one.

I love the smell of aluminum in the morning

 

I’ve got a red 2002 five speed manual with 62,000 miles

compared to a car with 212,000 miles it’s like a brand new one.

Yeah, anything under100k is going to feel really new like. I drove an 06 a few days ago with 115k. It felt really nice.

 

The last time I drove an Insight was 4 months ago. Any Insight driven now would feel GREAT!

 

Is the Little Red Rocket broken?

 

Hope all the best for the quick repair of the car.

 

mudder delivers Sawbite to Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, TN on November 9, 2020

Possible site of Insightfest 2022

 

Just bought a 2000 with 78,000 miles. Suspect the battery needs replaced a 5 minute uphill depletes the battery and it charges quickly

 

The battery capacity is pretty small tbh, even on a newer battery. Stock new pack is 6Ah. 5 minutes full assist is quite a bit of juice. 70 amps for 5 minutes is 5.8amp hours from the battery.

 

No IMA light or CEL light, no problem.
Where are you located?

 

Thanks for the replies. Pretty excited have almost bought one many times over the last 15 years. Found this one owner, maintained, garage kept one owner car

 

Dogbite: Original owner won it in a contest, but was too old to register or drive it. Car sat in the Houston sun for over a decade. Restored by second owner, who then sold it to @jime.

Sawbite: So-named because the entire right side of the car was cut away, to show off Honda's technology. Car spent its entire life in a museum, except for the year plus it took to import it into America. I fully restored it back to driving condition (leaving the cutaway portions as-is). Honda definitely didn't want this car to ever drive again, but now it does . I donated this car to the Lane Motor Museum in 2020.

 

Dogbite: Original owner won it in a contest, but was too old to register or drive it. Car sat in the Houston sun for over a decade. Restored by second owner, who then sold it to @jime.

Just a little bit more, Dogbite was a barn find in Houston, TX by member 02insight and his friend lach. As mentioned, it was parked outside for many years and the paint was badly damaged. The local large dog had gone at the hood edge and the left front fender with some pretty powerful teeth. When I registered the car in VA, I was pleased to find that no one had claimed the vanity plate name "Dogbite" and it was so named. The discovery part of the story is told here:

Citrus "Barn Find" in Houston [WIP]

I'm starting this thread to chronicle our adventures with a Citrus Insight "Barn find" here in Houston. I'm breaking it up into multiple posts and using place holders for pictures we don't have yet (from PO). Bear with me. Yesterday 02Insight and I drove to Tomball, TX to look at a '00 insight...

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02insight became the owner and with his friend lach, they lovingly nursed the car back to healthy running condition. They grid charged the battery, which remains strong to this day, and changed out all the fluids. They also had the wheels restored and put on new RE-92s.

My wife and I were traveling the U.S. by motor home at the time and happened to be going through Houston on our way to the southwest for winter. Out of curiosity, I arranged to see the car. I was immediately smitten with the absolutely new quality of the car, less paint of course. The more we socialized, ate and talked my lust for the car just grew and grew. I'm afraid that I made a significant contribution to 02Insight dental school tuition with my offer, but I have never been the slightest bit unhappy with the car.

I was towing another insight at the time, so plans were completely changed. I now had two Insights in Houston. What to do now? I decided to tow Dogbite to my sister's home in MS, and return by bus for the other Insight. Rode the Greyhound back to Houston where 02Insight picked me up at the bus station. Now I had two Insights in Mississippi. More bus rides and finally got both cars to VA. Never did make it to southwest that year

I did some additional restoration myself. I disassembled the brake calipers for inspection since my prior experiences had told me that stale brake fluid would collect water and rust these parts. I found some slight rust so replaced the pistons, rubber parts, and hardware with new parts. After much discussion and anguish, I decided to get a quality paint job. If the car had "patina" I would probably have kept the paint original, but with the dog damage and sun damage the exterior cosmetics were just aweful. I also purchased a bunch of new exterior trim pieces at the same time. This thread relates some of my ownership time:

"Dog Bite" Changes Hands

I have purchased the famous "dog bite" 2000 Citrus from 02insight in Houston. He is a young college student and like all young students was in need of educational funds. I was happy to make a sizable contribution to his education. Both larch and o2insight have done a beautiful job of bringing...

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Since I want to keep the mileage as low as possible, it is pretty much a garage queen

 

Couple of more pictures of Sawbite:

 

Well then how was Sawbite acquired?

 

The entire process is agonizingly cataloged here.

Summary:
Back in 2001 Sawbite toured Canada (on a trailer) to show off the cutting edge technology (i.e. being a hybrid, which was new hotness at the time). After the tour ended, it spend around 16 years at a museum in Canada. A few years back, the museum deaccessioned Sawbite, which was essentially sold for scrap. @Natalya found the car for sale online, but was too far away (Atlanta) to purchase it. Instead, @rhall (in Canada) purchased the car, and then sold it to me. I then spent well over a year importing it into the United States, which was incredibly difficult because it's nearly impossible to import a salvage vehicle that's less than 25 years old into the US. On the advice of my attorney, I'm gonna gloss over the details on how we got Sawbite stateside. .

Once Sawbite got into the US, I drove up to Detroit, where @minor4326 helped me load it onto a trailer in sub-zero temperatures. I then drove it back to my garage, where it then sat for over a year. When COVID hit, I figured that was the perfect time to get it running again. The two primary reasons the car wouldn't drive were:
-Honda cut every single wire harness in the car in half. I hand-repaired every single harness.
-Honda cut the firewall continuously from the left to right A-pillars. This significantly weakened the frame, to the point that sitting in the car caused the 'gap' width (where it had been cut) to change. Rewelding the firewall back together was challenging, but only because the first company I took it to did a terrible job.
-The fuel injectors were entirely fouled up... sitting unused for 20 years caused them to not work. I was able to repair them by running higher voltage through them for several seconds, and then dipping them in a cleaning solution.
-The coolant system was disabled in several different ways.
-To prevent the engine from running, some kind of gummy material was poured into the oil filler. I ended up using a solvent to dissolve it all.
-The car had no fluids whatsoever, except for a completely full gas tank (which I emptied out and burned in my truck). @rhall had previously poured in some oil, which was good because the car sat outside for a long time during the importation process.
-The SRS system was entirely disabled.
-I added back and/or repaired all crash safety parts required by NHTSA, so Sawbite can legally operate on roads. Sawbite is street legal (in TN, at least). I almost had to register it as an ATV (off road vehicle); it meets all the legal requirements to be an ATV in TN.

After fixing the above issues, the car worked just fine. I drove it about a mile, then donated it to the Lane Motor Museum. It's amazing just how quiet a brand new G1 Insight engine is... absolutely zero valve tapping.

 

Search ICN for "sawbite" and the whole history can be found.
IIRC started around 2017.

 

I have a 2000 Silver with 74k and another 2000 silver with 12k, the 12k mile car will probably be on bring a trailer sometime this year.