Stop. Just stop.

 

Its ugly.. I removed it the first week I bought my car.
And lets play nice people. We know what it is now.

 

^^ What he said. Thanks all for answering my question, i wasn't trying to start a fight. And Ray I think I'll remove mine too, I can't really think of an instance where I would use the center jack point. Besides, I can always use the tow loop (ooooohhhh I shouldn't have but I did anyway)

 

Ive used the tow hook/loop/eye/thinger a few times when adjusting my coilovers.
I put a 4x4 piece of wood on the jack for more support. And my jack wouldnt go high enough.

 

wow...the canadian jokes are going too far, its usually the dumb americans that cant get it right, theyre the only morons not using the metric system, i have to convert everything in my physics class...lol jk i just thought it was messed up making fun of the canadian fit owners

 

If you had used the jacking bracket instead of the tie down hook, the jack would have lifted the car at least 6" higher. Just because your car did not fall off the hook, it still easily could have. It cannot fall of the jacking bracket- that's why it is there, and you wouldn't have needed the block of wood for stability.

 

I only made fun of the Canadian Fit owners who could not find the safe, secure lifting point that Honda put on the car for that purpose, even with a (poor) drawing, and a different part name for the jacking bracket to distinguish it from the tie down loop.

 

So why did you single out Newfoundlanders? None posted in your thread before you made your comment. What did you mean by that?

 

I did not "single out" anybody. Apparently Newfoundlanders are now extremely sensitive after decades of other Canadians making them the butt of "Newfie Jokes". In the U.S., making up and telling Polack jokes used to be popular, but went out of fashion as we acquired a variety of new ethnic groups to replace Polish people to make fun of. Apparently Newfie jokes are now out of fashion, and my reference was only that- a joke. I also doubted that the American kids on the forums would even know what a "Newfie" was.

Take it easy- it's nice to know that there is one Fit owner in Newfoundland who is a fitfreak member.

 

i'm taking that out now that i know what it is, it looks weird..

 

Hey manxman,

When I visited the Honda dealership in Christchurch, New Zealand this Summer, I took the following shots.


The dealership had this SSM Jazz Sport on display


I asked the sales rep if I could snap a few shots of the underside of this Jazz Sport.


I noticed that the Fits (Jazzes) in New Zealand don't even have that black triangle jacking bracket.


I wonder how many other countries do not have this feature.?


Just thought I'd offer these images to ad to the confusion of this argument. BTW, on a recent visit to my local Honda dealer in Modesto, the technician raised the back end of my Fit using the tow eye as the jacking point, stating that it was the correct point to place the jack.
As for myself, I still prefer to use the "triangle" as it seems to be a sturdier, and more stable choice between the two areas in question.

-macbuddy-

 

I think the triangle should be the exact theoretical center for the Fits equipt with them; if you have one it should be used so your car does not rotate off of it IMO.

However I wonder if the balancing is slightly different on overseas Fit's which allows them to have a theoretical center for the location of the towing eye

 

Thanks for the photos, Mike. The people who insist that the tie down loop is not a tie down loop but the jacking bracket will be delighted to know that their friend claymore is supporting them, simply because his Thai Jazz does not have the bracket either. The bracket is on USDM models to protect Honda from the liability-suit-happy Americans.