If remote door lock and cruise control come with Fit base, I would never buy the sports. The front bumper is so low on the Sports that I constantly scrap the front bumper bottom when I come down a steep driveway onto a level street. No matter how slow I go. Sometimes I wonder why people would lower their Fit because the scraping is going be much worse.

 

Haha, I like that Honda put some thought into the design beausr despite a million scrapes I can't tell without getting under the car.

 

I don't think the Sport front bumper is even that lower at stock height. I can't wait to dump my GE8.

 

how steep are the driveways? i have yet to scrape my bumper in its stock height, then again im used to driving dumped so i go a little diagonally. worse come to worse you could opt to trade someone for the base front.

 

The Fit Base has remote entry built in - it just needs the right key. You just order a cheap replacement blank key and doing a little Nintendo-cheat-code style trick to program it.

I have the Base model (not lowered). There's little improvement over the Sport with regards to rubbing - the little air dam under the front bumper scrapes on everything.

 

you wouldn't even realize how bad a mustang cobra 03/04 front bumper is compared to a fit.

or hell.. you wouldn't even realize how bad a corvette front bumper is compared to a fit.

 

The key is not how slow you go..but at what angle.
My past 4 cars all have been lowered and I have never scraped the fronts even in hilly Pittsburgh. People just need to know how to drive a lowered car..and front from what I see a lot park them as well. People can't park worth a crap and always damage their front bumpers on parking curbs even stock height on various car models. I don't blame the car...I blame the driver.

FYI the Base and the Sport front sit at the exact same height. The Sport bumper only sticks out slightly farther.




To put it in retrospect....
Stock Corvette ZR1

 

yeah i like this quote, because i feel like the honda fit sport is spoiling me with its ride height.. this is like an SUV compared to the cars i owned.

 

Talking about scrapping the bottom of the front bumper... I have a bad memory with my old Z4... Let's just say I had to pay $1000 for parking in a WRONG place... (T_T)

 

This is a point of friction between me and my wife, who has put some noticeable scrapes on the front -- not just the scrape strip. That said, I don't ever remember hearing the strip rub over any dip or driveway/street intersection.

My wife complains she can't tell where the front of the car ends; I tell her not to worry about it, as the Fit is so damned short that even if she is three feet from the curb, its rear is still probably sticking out less than the cars on either side. If you don't know where the front of the car is relative to a curb, stop, get out, and look. Eventually you will learn what to use as reference points for parking.

 

If you think the bumper is low, look under there and look how low the engine/tranny hangs down with no protection. Lowering the FIT is a very bad idea, and it really needs a skid plate in stock form.

 

Does anybody make an after-market skid plate? Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to fabricate something that would provide both protection and improved airflow under the car.

 

its probably your driving

 

If you can show me how to come down a roughly 25 deg slope one lane driveway into a level street without scraping the front end, then I will say you know how to drive.

 

If I had a driveway that steep, I'd be driving a truck or an SUV. Can you post some pictures of your driveway please?

 

I am lowered on Swift Springs with my GE and have some very steep drives in my area. There is even one in Athens that has GOUGES in the asphalt from other cars hitting it over and over again. When I went over it I did NOT scrape one bit. I agree it's all about the angle.

 

I agree, but there comes a certain point where you come across an obstacle where angling just isn't enough. You either have to suck it up and scrape your shit or bust a bitch and go the long way. But when it's a steep ass driveway, there's no way around it.

 

Yeah, I need to take a picture of this one driveway...it's god awful but somehow, no scrape-age.

 

this is how low my DD was and i drove like that for 2 years, its your driving, you gotta be careful

..... you got a picture of your bumper, i kinda wanna see the damage done so far on it. I bet its nothing as bad as what my intercooler looks like, it received a beating EVERYDAY from me going in and out of my driveway.

 

Around here, it's not the steepness of the driveways, as much as it's the potholes right at the junction of the driveway and the road.

That said, the Fit isn't really any worse than the last two Neons I drove. They were more square across the nose, so crossing pavement at an angle wasn't as useful.