Just as a heads up to my fellow 2007-2008 Honda Fit owners.... the exterior pillars on our vehicles which I previously thought to be plastic or even possibly painted, I have now found out the hard way that it is merely satin black adhesive tape that has been wrapped over the surface. Sadly my vehicle was pelted with rocks by an unforeseen circumstance, and too my surprise I noticed Blaze Orange Metallic staring back at me through the satin black adhesive tape. Needless to say, my god Honda is getting CHEAP. lol

 

haha yeah i figured that out when i first washed my car and saw the inside/upper/rear corner of the front doors. just a reminder, we have a honda fit which is the entry-level honda. so yeah, it's cheap lol.

 

are you talking about the B-pillar?

i'd gets some matte vinyl and rewrap it.

 

Just do what all the Scion owners do and remove all the vinyl. Let that BOM shine

 

Just look at the upside of that. The plastic types fade in the sun; the metal ones like to rust after a few years. We can just put on new tape and boom, like new.

Reason I bought the fit, simple simple simple. Manual HVAC controls (no vacuum or computers), right down to the switch for defrost AC; conventional exhaust design; no MAF; pull all sorts of levers and the seats will do your bidding without electricity; and now I see tape on the door. Perfect. It even rattles like an older car already.

I'll just have to live with all the airbags and the computerized gauge cluster. Darn.

 

But the newer Civics have it as well. I'm quite confident the majority of Honda's latest line will contain said adhesive tape sadly, as it's just another one of the ways they're slowly starting to cheap out after building such a "successful" brand name.

 

^oh yeah. now that you mention that, i remember the 06 accords had that too.

 

04+ tsx has that, 99+ tl, 01+ mdx.. lot of cars have that nowadays

 

JaySmith,
You got photos? Would like to see how it's taped up.

 

Not just Honda but other makes like Toyota use the tape.
Cheap and effective.
Does give you the option to peal the tape off and have color matching pillars .

 

I think the color matching pillars would be sweet. Wonder if the paint under it has been sealed/clear coated or just painted and slapped with tape?

 

Treating this area differently during assembly/painting would cost more money, so I can't imagine the paint under the tape being the same paint job as the rest of the vehicle.