I bought a Cargo Cover for my Fit and it doesn't seem to fit right. I bought it off Ebay and the listing says it was for the 2018 Fit. The seller was a Honda dealer.

There is a big gap inbetween the back seat and the cargo cover, which completely defeats the purpose. You can look in the tiny back windows on the sides and see all my trunk contents.

My seats are moved back all the way.

 

Did you release the plastic latches on each side the rear seats so they will recline?

 

Damn, I never noticed this on my 2018 EX, I had the gap also. Now closed. Thank you for asking the question.

 

.......I'm special. I thought the seats were back all the way but they weren't reclined. I'm still learning about this car.

 

Well since I'm here in the back seats looking at things can someone tell me what this thing is?

 

At least it wasn't just me lol

 

was that the latch that hooks up to the ceiling belt? cant remember

 

Yes! Neat.

 

Yes.
The back seats slightly recline.
In my owners manual, it's under "adjusting the rear seats".
Recline them back and the gap will disappear.

 

I did, the gap went away lol I thought they were already reclined.

 

cool. i RARELY have 3 passengers in the back seat so wasnt sure if i remembered correctly.

 

I now have an HR-V, it has the same magic seats as the Fit and the same reclining rear seats. Owning the Fit prepared me for using the features on the HR-V.
The cargo cover OEM Honda sells for it is nowhere near as nice as the Fit's so I
am not even getting one. I miss many features on my Fit--mostly the dash cup holders and storage cubbys.

 

I've griped before that Honda should just make the cargo cover standard.
I'm convinced Dealerships don't want it...because when you have the cargo cover installed, the storage area in the back looks smaller...it blocks the open view of folded down seats.
And salesmen would probably get tired of constantly removing and re-installing the "standard" covers.
But that's just speculation on my behalf.

I like my OEM cover, quite a bit. But it was an expensive post purchase expense, which probably would of seemed much more palatable, if it was just rolled into the entire purchase price of the vehicle.

 

Interestingly enough that OEM cargo cover is standard equipment on my Canadian LX. I guess we get that (and more!) to compensate us for not getting the tire pressure monitoring system which isn't required in Canada.

 

That's interesting to me.
Since Canada doesn't require a TPMS? They actually build non-TPMS models just for Canada?

Since TPMS is arguably a big safety feature, you'd think Honda would just build ALL Fits with TPMS. The standard being make the vehicles safer, regardless of territorial requirements.

To actually go to the trouble of building X number of Fits without TPMS seems like a strange decision.

 

It's strange that the US government mandated TPMS but not DRLs (mandatory in Canada) which is an equally big safety feature.

Canadian LXs also have dual heated front seats (US LXs don't), a 4.0 L windshield washer tank (only 2.5 L in the US), and a low windshield fluid warning light (none in the US LX). I think there are some other differences which escape me at the moment. A lot of the differences of course are related to the climate up here.

 

We get heated mirrors as well.

I hate TPMS (added costs, sensors fail, false readings, etc.) so I'm happy we don't have it in Canada.

 

I don't think we have it either, here in Mexico. We bought our car used, and it came with the cargo cover. Mexicans are not known for spending money on extras that are not necessary, so I'm guessing it came standard.

 

It also seems strange since the Fit's type of TPMS may just involve some more software being added to the ABS braking system software. The Fits' type of TPMS deduces pressure from wheel rolling resistance, rather than by directly measuring pressure. The ABS already detects rolling resistance - such as the loss of rolling resistance due to loss of traction, or the loss of rolling resistance on one side that occurs as the car skids. A little extra programming and the computer can flag certain kinds of changes in rolling resistance as being due to one tire having less pressure than the others.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Canadian model actually already had the software to do this, but it was "remarked out" – flagged as a program remark rather than a programming instruction.

I think that unfortunately all the computer programming for contemporary vehicles seems to be encrypted or copy protected or something, and therefore not alterable except by the developers.