Our 2015 Fit has been a great car. Its never had any issue that needed repaired. We change the oil, rotate the tires and drive it. Now, some details: Later production 2015, we go it in May of '15 and it was freshly minted so it avoided the early production bugs. Its got 48,000 miles on it and we just did replace the tires. (Which could have easily made it maybe another 4k to 5k ). We had a bent wheel from a major pot hole accident so we replaced that and had it aligned. Car has always run great, no fuel injector issues or strange engine noises. It still has the original battery which tests great. I can not complain about anything on this car.

 

Funny you should mention the wheel. My son had three tires blow as a result of hitting pot holes - all at night.

 

44k miles, no problems. Bought June 2014. VIN is under 5000.

 

I have a 2015 original owner it was in the middle of the run of 2015, so I did not see the assembly issues that are posted elsewhere. Still the car has had some issues. I think the head unit in the 2015 loses some contacts and is hard to use with a phone directory. The batteries and tires wear too quickly in these new cars.

My actual quality issues are:
a replaced axle at 20,000 miles
a new modulator assembly that was bad for my VSA and ABS. 46,000 miles (in 5 years of ownership).

The product is generally good, for a $20K or less vehicle, as one poster said you'd be better off with a 2017 or newer but other Honda products have far more issues than these Fits.

Other annoyances:
A clunky (like in noise clunky) MT - the MT is a real downer.
I have a whirring from under the hood that started at around 40,000 miles
The car has a lot of road noise through the floor panels but it seems this is common with Hondas they are poorly insulated vehicles
Handling in these vehicles is mediocre

Would I buy it again. No!, there are definitely other vehicles that you can buy at this sub $25,000 mark that will probably be more enjoyable. Maybe a Toyota Yaris, although for sure the Honda Fit is the car in this Class B class that Consumer Reports likes the best.

 

Here is the Consumer Reports history on the Fits since 2015... as you can see the 2017 and 2018's are going to strike less lightening into your wallet. It's interesting there really is the Rio, Accent, and Yaris.

The rest of the bunch, good luck!

 

I have around 173000km/10700miles on my 2015 LX MT China-built (I'm in Canada).
VTC actuator was replaced under warranty with a new design that sounds like a big ratchet instead of an impact gun.
Intermittent starter was replaced under warranty.
3 of 4 door lock actuators have failed (out of warranty). I may have a go at replacing them myself.
I broke the poorly designed tailgate garnish and replaced it myself. The new part has metal reinforcement.
I love the engine (rev it!), love the shifter, but the flywheel's too heavy for the soft motor mounts, so the 1st-to-2nd shift rubber-bands badly (hate is almost the right word). After 40y of driving mt cars and motorcycles, I still can't upshift this car smoothly into 2nd. Even my daughter's Echo was better.
Clutch hanging in there after towing my dirt bikes around for five years.

Order some camber bolts, book an alignment and max out your front camber (around -1.3 degrees). You will love the steering, feels like a GTI and makes me enjoy twisty roads. Astonishing transformation for less than $200.

So to answer the op's question, not that bad, considering the purchase price, repair history and the versatility.

 

"China-built" ????? All 2015 North American Fits were Mexico built from what I recall.

 

I just purchased a 2015 LX with about 112,000 miles. I'm looking forward to driving a new car!

 

We bought the first 2015 to arrive at our local dealer in July of 2014. Biggest issues were paint (didn't seem to have much clear coat) and fuse/battery issues starting at 55k miles.

 

I was looking for a Fit for three months. I finally had to drive from NY to Maine to get one. Three days later, my son got one about an hour south of us. In both cases the dealers had just one Fit.

 

Beat you by one month-got ours June 2014. There use to be a poster on here who lives in my little town who got his in April. Must have been the first around here.

 

Haha! We saw one at a car show in Albany, NY in March 2014, but it was locked and you couldn't sit in it.

 

Sat in a silver one at the NY Auto Show in April, and I knew I had to get one.

 

I've had my 2015 Fie EX 6MT since purchasing it as a CPO in 2017. It had 18K on the odometer then, now it has ~102K. I have had no truly serious issues at all, and I drive it like I stole it.

Only 2 real issues of note.
1. I have the infamous "Check Charging System" issue that no one seems to be able to figure out. It happened a little over 2 years ago on the first day of a cross-country drive from AL to CA. I pulled over as soon as I noticed it, thinking perhaps the serpentine belt had broken or somehow come off. It hadn't. A quick check with my multimeter showed that the alternator and voltage regulator were working as they should. I was about 3 hours from my first overnight stop in Ft. Worth TX, so I continued. The next morning, before they even opened, I stopped at Honda of Ft. Worth and had them look at it. They were very nice, but clearly didn't understand what was wrong either. They suggested replacing the alternator, for the low, low prince of $800 saying that perhaps the output of the alternator was "noisy" and that caused the issue. No thanks. So I drove on. I did buy an alternator, but I've never installed it. By the time I got back home from CA, 3 months later, I'd gotten used to it and was confident that it wasn't going to suddenly leave me stranded on the side of the road. I did hook an oscilloscope to the alternator output and field wires, there is almost no noise or ripple, except as expected when the load increases suddenly. When the cooling fans, AC clutch, or other big loads start up, there is always a brief noise spike, but that's completely normal. So I have stopped worrying about it.

2. The stock front brake rotors were junk. There is no other word for it. They warped constantly. After having them turned twice and replaced (under warranty) once, I bought a set of Centric slotted and drilled rotors and problem solved. Added bonus, the damn thing stops so hard now that it almost hurts!!! Racecar!!!

That's it. One problem that I can live with, and another that was easily solved. I freaking love that silly little car. More "smiles per dollar" than just about anything I've ever owned. I keep up with my maintenance meticulously, and I do it al myself. ALL fluids get replaced at or very close to the recommended intervals. And I do it myself so that I know it is done properly. I just got done changing all the fluids, oil, coolant, transmission, brake fluid and even the clutch fluid.

Too bad the Fit will be no more here in the US after 2020, because US drivers are too uninvolved and lazy to drive manuals...... Oh well, when the time comes, I have a solution......Miata!!!!

 

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I had the same happen in June on my 2015 Fit, replaced original battery but problem remained with new battery, came and went for weeks. Could be the battery sensor like with the Accords.
When it goes off, a group of warning lights come on (check engine, VSA and electric power steering) and the electric steering goes to full assist, like when you're steering at low speed. At highway speed it is way overboosted and has no damping, very twitchy. Makes one realize how much the steering feel is artificially controlled.
Now I have a check engine code, so I ordered a bluething from amazon to read it, will report results.

 

Exactly. Using 93 instead of 87 means you are using gasoline that has a higher octane rating. Other aspects of the fuel such as the amount and kind of additives, including the all-important detergent additives, are likely to be the same.Although some brands may put more detergent in their higher octane fuel, most brands do not. The car has antiknock sensors which make it unnecessary to use 93 octane gasoline. Using the higher octane gasoline won't cause much difference in miles per gallon, or acceleration. Probably no measurable difference at all. Personally I like to buy top tier most of the time. To fill up the tank with top tier instead of fuel without the top tier designation (which may or may not have the same adequate detergent amounts) it costs me about $0.16 more. Probably some brands of non top-tier gas are just as good as the top tier gas, but they just haven't submitted the information to the top tier evaluation agency, and tehrefore it can't designate the fuel as being top tier. I would not be surprised if there is a very inexpensive additive you could add to non-top-tier gasoline in order to improve its detergent quality, so as to help keep the engine's fuel injectors clean, but the fuel additive manufacturers are very secretive. Exactly what detergents and how much of them are needed, seems hard to find out.

 

^^what he said.

The manual calls for Top Tier and 87 octane. It's all I use.