First off I have lurked the forums for 7+ years and found the information to be very helpful. The other day while doing the notorious coil pack/spark plug fix, I noticed a gap in my shock tower. Car has 207,000 miles and I lowered it pretty much right after I got it. From t1r springs to tein coils. Our roads are pretty harsh in Nebraska and the welds seemed to have rusted. Weird thing is I have never noticed a difference while driving. I immediately parked it and posted it locally for parts/repair. Just showing some pics if anybody else has had an issue or may now look for a potential issue.

 

You're in the land of salted roads, I'm kind of surprised it's hung on this long. That said I haven't seen that before, good thing you caught it while stationary and not at 70+

 

First off, kudos that you've kept your car up- you've got a good looking car! Second, I've also never heard of or seen that happening on a Fit. Strange- it looks like the spot welds tore through, but I don't see rust present there in the pic that might have weakened that area. Was there ever any collision damage to that area of your car. If so, it could have been overlooked by the repair shop, and a repair now might still be covered by the insurance company under that original repair order. Just a thought.

If collision damage did no happen, then you might take your car to a reputable body shop and discuss a potential repair. Perhaps they can remove the suspension on that side and then hydraulic those panels back into their original position and fully weld them together. Obviously they should also check the other side while they're at it.

 

Thanks guys. There was never a collision but our roads are terrible for any lowered vehicle. I ended up letting her go for $1500 tonight. I could have repaired it but am really looking for something different to drive ( maybe a manual ge8?). I felt safer letting it go to someone I know who would fix it then daily driving it with the family in it.

 

Holy moly. That seems like bad joo joo magumbo. Legit scary.

 

That is clearly from your slammed suspension bottoming out. If your stock struts were doing their job they wouldn't bottom out causing that serious damage. This happens on other slammed Honda's also.

 

No suspension travel so your strut towers take all of the shock abuse.