Washing your FIT, products, techniques, answers

[seizure]

I am going to try it out !

[Paulo107]

i spent like over 50 bucks on cleaning products mostly all Meguairs...i have just washed it with car soap with a mit...to dry i use the absorber shammy...i hit it up with the quick detailer spray...have not waxed it yet

[switchbrdopr]

I've had mine three weeks on Thursday and I've washed it four times already.

[shipwrek]

I have only washed it once but the second I got it I headed out to get an all new car wash kit. But dammit its been raining every weekend I try to do it!!!!

[bobbied]

Twice, i've had the Fit for two weeks and looks like I'm falling into a once a week car wash..gotta wax it soon too.

[4dr4life!]

Just washed mine over the weekend

[verily]

Once. Needs to be twice, but it's been raining on & off and the carwash station in my complex has been roped off for a week now.

If it ever stops with the intermittent raining, I guess I'll be taking it over to a car wash shop in order to clean up the hood and vacuum the interior before I put my new floor mats down.

[sillypuddy]

i wash it almost every other day

-joe

[HFit USA]

haha, same as sillypuddy almost every other day. And today is an exception gonna wash it later today.

[kingdlx]

I have washed it 3 times and waxed once, but every day I wash the bugs off.

[aziatiklover]

none..............

[xorbe]

washed twice and one wax, though I clean the windshield each morning for best visibility.

[greyfit]

A bit off topic but is it good to use commercial car wash or should I hand wash? Before the honda fit, I have an 89 toyota tercel and never washed that. If commercial car wash is okay, what should I look for when choosing a commercial car wash, is touchless the best? Thank you for your advice.

By the way, I have been lurking around for a while and I have had my vivid blue fit sport MT for a week now and has 345 miles on the car.

[dougiepants]

At least twice a week

[azanon]

Washed mine once; and in doing so discovered to my dismay that the sheet metal on the top of the car is so thin, that it pops in and out with hardly any pressure. I couldn't do that if i tried to my wife's 04' VW Jetta.

Azanon

[sy11580]

So far I washed once time. But everytime I wash my car the other day will be raining. So...........nothing to say

[xorbe]

My Jetta also has the moonroof -- the continuous sheet metal must be like 4x shorter than the top of my Fit, so yeah it's easier to flex. The Jetta is also easier to wash and wax...

I think people get waaay too crazy about car soap and wax... if you're managing to wash and wax your car on a regular schedule, you're doing great! I think the exercise is more important than the shiny paint...

[Paulo107]

i have had mine since the 22nd of april...i have washed it like 5 times already...and those damn morons at the honda detail area left my NHBP with swirls...i will be able to take them off myselfjust wmix waxes together

[annie]

I've had it since April 21st (two weeks now) and I've washed it 2 and a half times. The half is because I kept rinsing off the back end every other day the first week because it kept gathering dust during our intermittent drizzle.

[fitjunkie]

washed mine twice, on a weekly basis...but still paranoid about waxing this early...but it's coming...