New Honda Fit- Sports Owner: What should I know?
 

Hey guys,

Just picked up a 2018 sports with auto trans - edit; CVT. Was wondering if there was anything you learned when you picked up your car? If there is anything I should do sooner rather than later preemptively, perhaps.

Best way to learn is from others who have gone before you!

Reading the manual as we speak.

:)

If you're worried about rock chips on the front, best to get it clear bra installed asap.

Roof is very thing, so be careful when washing it. Don't rest your elbows there or you'll regret it.

Finer Point.
But my 2016 came with a hard copy, but smaller 'Owners Guide" that only covered certain major points.
The real owners manual was on a downloadable CD.
If you wanted a hard copy you had X number of days after purchase to request one from Honda.
Otherwise you download the real manual.

I didn't realize this at first, until I realized the provided "Owners Guide" was NOT the "Owners Manual".

Yes. I learned to call it a CVT and not an "auto trans." which it isn't. :p

CVT = continus vacuum tones



joke aside, check to make sure none of your power window glass tries to fall out like my pos GK.. :eek3:

All the features are for looks only. It has the same engine with the same hp and torque as the LX and EX models, so it should be able to go just as slow. If they invented the CVT first, then you would wonder why anyone want an automatic trans. Well, it's getting to be like a CVT, Ford has a 10 speed transmission from the original of 3 speeds.

u see the migration of how the honda was Fit to do the task and now it lost a great customer to its own flaws. that’s not my fault. hell couldve bought a few more Fits before i’m done.

why u two crying at someone that actually has experience with the car good and bad.
if the experience is good, u see good posts. you can’t just take the good and pretend there is no bad.

point being.. check your power windows before purchase!

An overdue congratulations. Hope your Fit is as perfect as my 2015 has been...not one thing gone wrong.

:nod: sounds excellent, exl500.

So far she's a ripper. A little teething problems with apple play, and i'm trying to better manage the storage space but I'm lovin' her. It's my first new car so I feel like I'm driving a Bentley.

don’t complain to me cause 100% of my posts regardless of car are true thoughts resulting from actual experience of my cars and cars i’ve driven.

so not sure wat your point is. if honda wants great reviews of the GK from me, then they needed to do a much better job. if VW sucked, ud hear about it too from me. ure like the “fake news” guy. everything you don’t want to hear is fake news.

why are you so fixated on just the negatives? there are a whole bunch of other posts i make other than just the negatives of the GK. remember im not a fanboy of honda or the GK.

im a car enthusiast that likes sport hatches and not brand or car oriented. people can and do benefit from 3rd person view understanding where the GK stands as a hatch in 2018. no sugar coating. if you cant handle that, dont come to this site. this site is not about just you or just making you feel good. take the good with the bad.

A continuously variable transmission is a kind of automatic transmission. It transmits engine rotation to wheel rotation and changes the ratio of engine speed to wheel speed and does so automatically. That makes it an automatic transmission. The "old fashioned" kind of automatic transmission is a planetary gear automatic transmission. It has gear ratios just like a manual transmission but the gear ratios are selected using hydraulically operated braking bands instead of by a manually operated shift fork that slides gears along a shaft. The CVT does not have gear ratios - it has pulley ratios. They are selected automatically via hydraulic control of effective pulley diameter along a contiuum of pulley diameters. It is perfectly accurate to call a CVT a CVAT – a continuously variable automatic transmission.