I love my Fit but have never owned a car that sits this low to the ground; much less one with a spoiler kit up front. Now, I live in New England and the only thing I can think of is the upcoming winter where Massachusetts has been known to get a bit of snow from time to time and where the roads don't necessarily get plowed in a timely fashion.

All I can picture is the front spoiler acting like a snow shovel going down our un-plowed roads and totally ruining the spoiler and fog lights. The spoiler can't be more than 3"-4" off the ground and that is a mere dusting of snow up here. I'm not concerned with the car's handling in the snow as I am damaging something while driving in it.

How tough are the spoilers? Is it something to worry about? Thoughts?

 

I picked up my GE8 last January. All winter we didn't get a too much snow all at once so I thought I was safe to go ahead and lower the Fit (Tanabe DF210's -1.5"F -1.75"R) About a week later after I lowered it we get over 4 inches of snow fall over 2 days. The road I work on doesn't plow the road at all and its over a mile long. There were ruts galore on that road. I didn't have a single problem with the front spoiler (or the black plastic strip under the spoiler in the front) at all. The biggest thing I noticed especially lowered was the snow was so high between the ruts my car was actually touching the snow underneath my car and somewhat hard to get out of the ruts. All in all the Fit did fine. No damage to the front spoiler or nothing. Not saying not to be careful but you should be fine esp. at stock height. The Fit sits off the ground about as high as any other car so you should be fine. Just make sure your careful and take it slow where they plow and pile the snow up though.
On a side note though I did clear bra my front bumper and hood when it warmed up this spring. I made sure I covered the front spoiler really well so it actually has a clear bra on it to protect it from getting scratched this winter if we have a repeat snow storm.

 

I live in Canada, where we get plenty of snow (albeit they do do a pretty good job of shovelling the roads) and I have yet to have a problem over the past winter. The car is fairly low but it really isn't too bad, it's at a good height. My main concern was going over the larger speed bumps in the city, or running into a parking block (which I've done once, thinking that my clearance was higher than that).

If your fog lights are on, then it won't be a problem 'cause the snow will melt right on them. Unless there's a lot of sand on the road, I doubt you'll be scratching up the lip too badly.

 

ah, another MASS person! Funny thing, I've actually been wondering about this myself.

On a side note, where about in mass are you?

 

my 08 is lowered and sits much lower than my stock 09. still no issue in the snow.

the 09 handled snow last year great with some WS60 tires.

 

Another Canadian here and I had no problems in the snow last winter.

Running on steelies with 175/65R15 Blizzak WS60 tires and the LX model not having the skirts nor fogs helps.

 

Lol how many yah need? Guys with LOWERED cars are fine stock ride height is fine.
Fresh snow is not exactly hard yah know, Dont mount any banks though.
Not saying you wont get stuck in deep snow but it doesnt hurt the car they are designed with this in mind.

 

Another Canadian here. I've found my '09 Sport MT will plow through most snow without much difficulty. But watch out for snow drifts (which are much denser) because your car will bottom out on them and the snow will plug every hollow space under your car. Might even damage the air-cond. core in front of the rad as it gets squeezed through the grille. I had it plug up my rear mags so that when I reached highway speeds the imbalace created by the snow crammed into them produced very pronounced wheel tramp.

I've since purchased a set of 15" steel rims for winter and mounted winter tires on them (ie: NOT "all-season" tires). The stock tires are too wide and create twitchy handling and poor traction on snow and ice.

 

Western Mass. I'm in Westfield. Exit 3 off the Mass Pike. Only 90 miles from Boston if you want to meet up! We can do it on motorcycle or Fit!

 

I have the stock Dunlops on my new 09 sport and this will be my first winter with my Fit on Long Island NY. I'm not planning on winter tires because I don't have the money to get a set. We have unpredicatable winters here. Snow amounts and temperatures can vary widely from week to week. We have more icey conditions than high snow amounts over the last couple of years. Most of my driving is at night too, when everything ices over. I'll have to navigate with the stock tires- unless I'm so shitless that I'm forced to get snow tires.



Dan

 

Not getting good traction isn't a good place to "save money". Just think about how much it'll cost to fix just one slow speed slip or slide and bump. That's not even talking about what happens at higher speeds and risk of injury.