It saw rain for the first time. :violin:

It was. I am now a debt free Murican.

Congrats to you, Danny! That's awesome!

Had the windows tinted; Llumar ceramic 45%.

Also installed a Gentex auto-dim, Homelink rear view mirror.

And replaced the hatch and dome lights with LED.

Now finished. Thanks for all the tips.

DaveGee

I pulled the #25 fuse to disabled the DRL.

Got windows tinted today!

3M Color Stable. 35 up front and 20 around the back and was done by Eurovision in Torrance.

Looks sooo much better.

Why would you do that?

I Bought it !!!

To make the long story short, google why others delete the DRL. I would like to delete the backup camera as well if it was an easy task. The camera gives a very distorted view of how far obstacles are behind the car. Using the camera you may not have enough time to brake when you do see obstacles because your brain is used to working with your eyes when you are driving. Now Honda is telling me, trust the camera, NOT. When I am looking at the video screen, I still have to raise my head to look around the windows for obstacles around the car! My direct eyesight works much better. I haven't killed any kids yet.

Wow, glad I seen this, never really gave this much thought, always been like take em or leave em.... although once I was driving my 05 chevy work truck approx. 100 miles to work. I pull a trailer with moderate tongue weight, (angle of the front of truck up slightly) Minding my own business when I get pulled over by a trooper accusing me of "flashing my lights". Mad wasn't the word. but didn't want to spend the night anywhere but home I told him I wasn't I don't "warn other drivers of officers hiding spots". I thought to myself I see this all the time, bigger trucks with both a trailer and DRL, hitting moderate bumps in the road give the appearance of one "flashing their lights. Well I don't know if this action is actually illegal, don't think it is, I didn't get a ticket. So what did I do, on these chevys I find to even keep the DRL working you have to change the bulbs every 6 months at least, so I promptly just jerked those bulbs out.:rotfl: So I may do your fuse 25 trick myself...

Completely disagree about the backup camera. It is a godsend for getting out of parking spaces where you are boxed in by the giant trucks people drive these days, and there are setting for close up parking too. Yes, I still look around, but why not have better tools to help. I wouldn't live without it now...or Lane Watch either.

As for DRLs, I've never heard of anyone pulled over for their use, and they've been proven to be safer (although there are outlier studies). So i'm good with them too.

I was once rear-ended when I stopped and the driver behind me did not. So I disabled the brakes, which makes me safer and I haven't been rear-ended since.

It's beyond me how you can state that you see better without backup camera... I asume you have X-ray vision to see if there is a child or a small dog playing behind your car when you back up.

If you don't have X-ray vision,I suggest to completely remove the trunk and the rear seats to be safer when you backup ... Lol
Btw this way you will have successfully disabled the backup camera too.

Hey Buck, I thought this may have been you but I wasn't sure at the time. Now I know! :rotfl:

http://www.rcramer.com/fun/econobox/econobox_32.jpg

Yasssssssssss....
 

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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

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You must have had x-ray vision before backup cameras. We can make our cars more visible by requiring all cars painted dayglo orange. :rotfl: Can you say you have never been in an accident or hit anyone after driving 52 years? Please, educate me on what is necessary to drive safely. BTW, I think I saw you texting and driving the other day. You know what they say, honk if you love Jesus, text if you want to meet him.

I would suggest to remove also the passenger side mirror cause it deforms the imange and it shows object further then they actually are. Also take the ABS fuse off and also disable the airbags.
After 52year with no accidents you don't need all this additional safety. LOL
I love you logic.

I bet even your angel face palms himself some days

Actually paying attention when driving, wouldn't need so many nanny amenities on cars. I want to know what good is the automatic braking feature good for except to give people a false sense of security so they can check facebook, the news etc, as well as the car behind you doing the same thing without automatic brakes crushing the back of your prized new car. Just saying need a auto deployable airbag in the rear bumper or something... you know just to be safe. :rotfl:

Thanks for the compliments. Your logic is if I prefer not to have some features, then I dislike all other features? Come on, give me a break. Some of those features are actually good for you and other inattentive drivers. So, if you don't agree, it must be a bad idea?

Hello Wasserball,

I can understand that some people prefer their car without DRL, some just don't like the looks of their car with DRL during day light,
some just want to save energy or save the life of their bulbs,
and some worry police might think they are flashing their headlight to warn others for speeding and get ticket and many others.
I personally would not take off my DRL because I think it does make your car more visible among others or at least in CA where almost everybody have DRL, my car would be equally visible but that is just me.

Now regarding the rear view camera, I think your dislike with the rear view camera is more because the salesman that sell you, your Honda Fit do not spend time to present and explain all the features and how to use it during delivery.

I was a car salesman for 2.5 years, 2 jobs before the current one (because I was desperate for a job so my family and I can survive since we just move back to USA).
When I was working as a car salesman,
During delivery process, I ALWAYS spent between 1 hour to 2.5 hours on each car (depend on how many options/features the car have).
No other salesman at my dealer do this, some of them even make fun of me but I don't care about their opinion, and because of that I always get 100% customer satisfaction survey and help me make extra $18,000 per year in bonus from the factory, Infiniti USA because not only I sell the most car at my dealership but I also maintain 100% customer satisfaction survey.
Later, when all other salesman realize how they can increase their customer loyalty and also directly increase their paycheck/income from doing their job right, they start follow my way and try to do better presentation to their customer.

Mind, you I was selling Infiniti so more features than Honda Fit. I do that to make sure my customer is satisfied with my service and can use every feature they have in their car that they pay with their hard earned money.

Back to the rear camera,
It is never intended to be complete replacement of looking behind over your shoulder.
Also you said that "The camera gives a very distorted view of how far obstacles are behind the car. Using the camera you may not have enough time to brake when you do see obstacles because your brain is used to working with your eyes when you are driving."

First,
unless you are backing up real fast, which is unsafe in the first place,
you should have enough time to brake and stop you car while backing up using the rear view camera.
some Infiniti actually have auto braking function when you reverse your car out of parking lot and it sense other car is moving to your direction,
but I always remind my customer that this feature will not work at all when the car sense you are backing up very fast, I forget the limit now but I think if you backing out faster than 5mph, the sensor will not work at all and you car will not brake, and I always explain this to customer so they don't have false sense of security just because they have this feature.

Second, that camera actually can help you to park very very very close to an object without hitting it. The trick is to identify the most further edge of your car that usually shown on the camera, in Infiniti case,
the rear view camera actually show the edge of Infiniti rear bumper,
so I always point out to customer that on some situation that require very close parking to the wall or car behind you, just take a look at this line which represent your rear bumper, so you know exactly where you bumper is in relation to the object. you will not be able to park this close without a rear view camera. (well you can, but someone have to guide you)
I really can park within one inch to of a wall/other car bumper in relation to the rear bumper of the Infiniti I am backing up,
Another example is, in the big city, sometime people park their car or motorcycle very close to your rear bumper, and a rear view camera would help. Some Motorcycle are lower than your hatch back would not be seen even if you glance back and you can only realize it is there after you hit if when you reverse your car.

Third,
I understand what you say that "I haven't killed any kids yet."
well, the key here is YET. because accident can happen and it does happen to many people. And of course we don't want tragedy to happened to you or anybody else.
I personally knew a friend who have her little dog get run over by her boy friend and die. Luckily (if we can consider it lucky) it is just her dog and not her 1 year old.
So a quick glance at a rear view camera before you backing up is a good habit, then if you don't like the way it show the rear view, you can always look over your shoulder.

Forth,
I don't know how advance the rear view camera on Honda Fit GK, I owned a Honda Fit GE,
but the Infiniti will also show a line that move/curve when you move your steering wheel. This line predict where your car will move in relation to your steering angle, this way, I can predict if I backing up in tight spot whether I am going to make it or I have to move forward adjust the car and backing up again. It is very accurate, and it helped me park an Infiniti back in the tight dealer lot. It is more precise even compare to a human guiding me to park.
That line on Infiniti also have several marking with different color that also function as a mark on how far you are to the object , green mean very far, yellow is close, red mean you are very close and need to back up very slow, I hope Honda Fit rear view camera have this too. If the Honda Fit one don't have this, then just use the second point that I wrote above and it will help.

I apologize if my long post boring you, and I wish your car salesman present this feature directly for you in an enjoyable way when you take delivery of your car,
because when I was working as car salesman, and present the feature of a car during delivery, none of my customer ever feel bored because I explain and show it with lot of jokes, and also with PASSION.
They can feel from my PASSION that I do this because I care for them, unfortunately, I can only do this for you by posting a long boring post here. :D