Battery Dead problems of the 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid

The contact owns a 2008 Honda Civic Hybrid. The contact stated that the vehicle failed state inspection because the check engine indicator was illuminated. The contact took the vehicle to the local dealer (dch academy Honda, 1101 u. S 9, old bridge, NJ, 08857) where the p0a7f code appeared (hybrid battery failed). The vehicle was not repaired due to the price of the part. The contact also had an independent mechanic diagnose the vehicle for a second opinion. Both the failure and part cost were confirmed. The manufacturer stated that the vehicle was out of warranty and advised the contact to keep calling the dealer. No further assistance was provided. The failure mileage was approximately 100,000.

The car is a hybrid, in which heavily relies on a battery. However, the battery unit is not so great and dies every few years. If one day the battery dies when I'm driving, it can be extremely hard to steer as it also powers the steering wheel. This can cause a incident in the road or at an intersection. Moreover it is too expensive to be buying a new battery every few years, so people remove the error code and sell the car, which causes this to become an never ending chain.

2008 Honda Civic Hybrid,(problem), ima battery discharge, while driving the battery will discharge to 0 or 1 bar and motor assist will not work until battery charges up, which can take awhile, with no assist the car is slow and dangerous. Also with low or no battery power the gas mileage drops about 20%. The reason you buy a hybrid. After research on the web this seems to be a large problem many other have it appears that Honda doesn't have a fix for this problem. The dealer will reprogram your ima system which doesn't allow for as much battery backup,which also decreases gas mileage. This gives the mpg of many other cheaper non hybrid cars. If after many battery discharges and if the diagnostic computer shows that the battery is bad then a new battery can be installed, the problem still is there, the reprogrammed ima system still doesn't allow for full battery backup and the mpg will not increase to new care status. Again, not what you paid for in the first place. I think Honda needs to address this problem. Many hybrid owners simply want what they bought in the first place. I think with your help,maybe Honda will step up to the plate and address this problem and not try to cover up or prolong the battery with updates to the ima system which appears not to help, this seems to prolong battery life, but doesn't allow for the full benefit of the hybrid concept.