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Time to bump this ancient thread. First time on here in almost 13 years. I traded this Fit on a 2014 Accord Sport manual. Fast forwatd to 2023 and my 16 yr old son is looking to get his first car. I told him I really liked my Honda Fit and one of those would be good to learn manual with. After sending me lots and lots of different cars he sends me a facebook marketplace post for a 2011 Honda Fit Base and asked me if it was mine. I knew right away it was. Front the Civic rims and Bilstien coilovers to the painted rockers and tinted tails I knew 100% this was my old car. So we drove a couple hrs north and bought it.
This story takes a couple sad turns but has a happy ending. Here it is right after we picked it up by Lake Erie.
The next day I went to drive it and the axle broke. (One of them had been replaced alread). Learned about the axle recall. Luckily close to home and had AAA.
Had my son take his mother to get an axle and got that replaced. Gave him some lessons on driving manual and he drove it to school but only got to drive it once.
He got hit while waiting to turn left. Driver of the other car fled on foot and of course the owner didn't have insurance. We didn't have collision because when the wife called it in they didn't tell her they were giving her the bare minimum coverage.
Here is what the car looked like. Son was fine. He wasn't moving and the airbags didn't deploy. Also clockspring was broken at the time which we didn't figure out until later.
He was devastated though only had the car for 4 days and then that. Life is hard.
Wasn't sure what to do. First thought was to get rid of it and start over. I haven't worked in a long time (old and semi-retired) and didn't have a lot of extra money to put into it.
Decided to go for repairing it myself in the driveway. Couldn't make it much worse right? Bro in-law brought us a hydraulic porta power, come-along and big piece of log chain. Not recommending this just telling the story of what I did.
DIY frame repair. Probably a bad idea but nothing to lose so went for it.
Got it pretty close actually. Close enough to get the motor mount lined up. Needed to replace hood, headlights, core support radiator etc. also had to have seatbelt pretensioner reloaded and airbag module re-set. Used some GM paint I had that's just a bit lighter. Not a bad match for rattle cans. It's not great close up but passabe for my blurry vision.
I had actually replced the bumper cap on this car before I sold it from sliding into a fire hydrant in the snow. This meant I still had the fog light bezels so I put those on and installed some gutter guard in the center. Got a new badge. Grill was still useable. I sprayed all the black plastic parts with a light dusting of satin rustoleum. Bumper cover was painted with the same GM silver and clear. Just cheap duplicolor cans. Not a great painter by any stretch but am really good at sanding and polishing.
Decided to clean the engine bay and went a little overboard on the intake.
Had some extra clear so hit the CF duckbill.
Finally got it back together (A/C still needs done will get to that in the spring.) Drives really nicely. Honestly can't tell much of a difference from when I traded it at 14k miles. Had 100k more on it now.
Please don't split the thread! It's so nice to have the continuation after so long time.
Glad you mentioned that. Was debating if I should bump my old mod thread or start over. Only reason I was thinking about it is I couldn't change the title and it's a little out of context 12 yrs later. But I did want to share mods on it going forward. pimped-my-11-alabaster-base-fit
I'm scrapping already with the granny drop. 
