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Julian, besides the 3 alternators, and orig serpentine belt ... what other maint has the car undergone? (not counting oil changes, no one cares about that! lol)
If you're ever back in the Canadian east coast give me a holler. We bought our HR-V from Fundy Honda! My wife's father was a service tech there when it was a Pontiac dealership.
Mileage is 502-something thousand. Been ignoring the Fit for a little since coming back from Florida. My Miata was down since Thanksgiving and since I've fixed it, it's been getting driven almost every day. I did drive the Fit to New Jersey on Tuesday because my buddy is over 6' tall and wouldn't be comfy in a Miata with a hardtop.
Still rolling along! Been driving the Miata more than I should and this has been sitting on the side lines most of the time unless it decides to snow.
The only issues i've had so far were the wipers being slow or non-op unless the switch is on high. Too lazy to swap my factory switch to diagnose it and determine whether my CR-V/Insight switch is bad or if my motors or whatever resistors are giving out. Another is my three month old Mitsuboshi belt with 10k-ish miles is squeaking.
Not much to update here. Mileage is about 506,500.
Replaced the wiper motor with a refurbished unit. Low speed setting was terribly slow and would eventually not function anymore. I used to be able to get it working again after a few seconds, but that only lasted so long. After only using my wipers on high for a month, I finally swapped motors.
Took the Fit on it's first road trip this year, to Ithaca, NY.
Also drove my friend's Canadian spec Fit. She has an A'pexi Accelerator Controller, Progress RSB, Hawk HPS pads, and Mugen short shifter along with a few other little things. Was cool to drive one of these with those mods along with a fraction of the mileage. Also loved seeing the little differences between US and Canadian Fits.
Shortly after posting this morning, I had walked out to something unfortunate. This happened outside my house and the neighbors don't have cameras sadly.
Thanks guys, but life goes on. I'll probably pull the dent out as much as possible next week if I feel like it.
A friend of mine had visited Japan and even stopped at Spoon/Type One. I was given a shift knob along with a few other things. Can't get more legit than that.
I know the car's a mess. I haven't gotten to spring cleaning mode with it yet.
Mileage is 507,300. Miata season is making it hard to rack up miles on this thing and I'm currently working on the bike to ride this season.
My friend made fun of my barely functional-hard to use latch, so she got me a new one. Guess it was time...
Also went to Harbor Freight the day I discovered the dent and got the two pullers they sell. Finally decided to pull it out after two weeks scoping the neighborhood for potential suspects. The small one shockingly did the job on the second attempt.
