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I have two, bought new in ~2016, The cars have been almost trouble free and I like them. I use mostly on my property with rare trips of about 10 miles into "town". Most of the warning lights are on but I just ignore. Ranges are 40+ miles. I forced Mits to tow them ~35 miles to Austin to do...

I'd love to be able to fit those tires. However, they are 30" OD! Without body modification, the rear imiev has room for about 24", 25" at the most. I have a pair of 185-65 14 I'm going to try; they are about 24" OD. Other possibilities are 175 and 60-70. Unfortunately, I didn't find snow...

I LOVE my imievs! This horseshit of different size wheels front and back tempers my affection. That and the really crappy instrumentation. I find my imievs get stuck WAY to easily. I'm thinking of putting larger 14" tires on my Escort rims and leaving them on the rear long term. Does anyone...

I'm now testing one of the Escort wheels on the rear. It won't fit on the front. I have regen; it appears to be almost exactly the right OD. I looked up 81 Escort on TireRack and they have only 13" wheels listed. The one that works on the rear is P185/65R14. For certain 81-83 Escort/EXP...

Some developments: I bought a couple of Fit spares and had occasion to use one on the rear. I drove it several days including two trips of 20 miles. I noticed the smaller OD seemed to interfere with regen; I had none. Laying around my place, I found some wheels and tires that I'm pretty sure...

Any. Academic interest. "Ready" is what I would be most likely to try. Just as if I were regen towing. Which brings to mind some oddities of the car. The first time I tried to drive my first imiev, it took me a long while to figure out how to make it go. Twist the key as if you were...

Points you've probably already considered: The drive, then tow/regen scheme gives you a lot of leeway to pick good/easy tow legs. Without consideration of laws, I would avoid towing on high traffic interstates. You can likely increase your drive segments with a few chademo sites even if they...

Thanks for the possibilities! The bolt pattern on the imiev is 4-100 and folks have said both Honda Fit and Gen 1 Insight wheels fit. I've also noticed that Mits Mirage seem to have that bolt pattern. Others? Is the Fit wheel you mention a "smaller than road wheel, carry as a spare" or a...

Recall that I configured the tow bar to pick up a new car at a dealer about 150 miles from me. I didn't want anything that would require ANY car modification. Yes, if I wanted to tow regularly, with one driver, a car in my possession, I would have developed some other solution. Not at all...

Have I found an audience for my towing projects? https://plus.google.com/102434734002949174273/posts/ZDF23Eyrhpu

I wasn't "together" enough to attempt the bluetooth app thing. I haven't used it in quite a while, it's always seemed flaky. I do "somewhere" have an adapter that seemed to work.

I'm interested in keeping the car functional for a few days while a flat is repaired. Not so much under/oversteer or regen. I searched the forum for "spare wheel" and came up empty. I wonder what I should have searched on? Thanks! What a silly problem to have! A car that requires $700+...

Thanks for the response! I believe the imiev has 15" wheels (4.5" wide?) while many Mirages have 14" wheels, up to 6" wide. Do you know for sure that the 14" wheels will not fit on an imiev? I haven't measured ODs on the 14" and 15" tires but I believe they are close. I'm fairly close to...

I just towed my second imiev home from a distant dealer. The first, mentioned above in the thread, was towed in about 30 mile segments for about 200 miles using a rope. For the second, I configured a tow bar of sorts. Some photos and commentary here...

I've searched, without success, for a few spare wheels. $200 is about the cheapest I've found. The other day at Mitsubishi dealer, I noticed a Mirage wheel looked pretty close. TireRack tells me both have a 4-100 bolt pattern with the same bore hole. Can anyone confirm or deny that a Mirage...

My first imiev, purchase near the end of 2014, had to towed to get it home. I did several towing sessions of about 30 miles; each regened enough to drive about 50 miles. On that trip, I towed with a nylon rope. I'm about to buy my second imiev and would like to find a tow bar for it. I would...

I did have some discussion with them and they are willing to sell without cells. However, they are using 3.7v cells and my candidates are LFP, ~3.2v. Using LFP with their kit is more risk and trouble than I want to go to. I asked them for a quote, exported to USA, but I didn't get a reply.

I wonder if this project is still active?