So I have my brand new 2008 Fit in silver and I absolutely love it! But I wanted to throw some questions up here to see what other Fit owners thought.

Firstly - my Fit Owner's Manual recommends I use fuel with octane 89 percent or higher. Now I am pretty sure higher octane fuels are mostly beneficial to vehicles with higher-combustion engines... is my 4-cylinder VTEC automatic engine going to benefit at all from using the mid-grade gas or should I stick with regular unleaded?? (I've been using 89 so far.)


Secondly - I have the base Fit, so I didn't get some of the extra fancy options. I did ask however about the mp3 player hookup, because I was willing to pay extra for that convenient feature. However the parts guys told me the feature was discontinued on 08 models because of a software problem.

I can't imagine he would make that up, seeing as they stood to make money off of it! But still, it sounds kind of funky. Has anybody else come across this? And, if you didn't have the auxiliary feature installed, did anybody take advantage of it through after-market installation or something?


I probably have more questions than this but I can't think of them now. Thanks in advance!

 

1) Stick to regular. No point throwing extra money out if you don't need to.

2) He was probably referring to the ipod hookup thing (can't remember what it's called at the moment). You can hook up an OEM aux jack input like the one the sport has though. Another option would be to get an aftermarket headunit that is a ipod/mp3 hookup and use it.

Welcome aboard and enjoy your Fit!!!

Let us know if you have any other questions.

 

congrats on your new Fit.

not sure about #2, but for #1, just use regular 87 octane. that's wat i use and it's been fine.

 

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/fit-...-base-fit.html

That's the link on how to install an aux input on your base fit.

 

Yeah regular gas is good,actually the higher octane stuff hurts performance on the Fit i heard. Follow the thread posted above on how to get mp3 on your base.
Congrtaz on the new ride and welcome to FitFreak.

Tyler

 

I use 93 octane for my Fit for two resons. 1 higher octane means better burnin in the cylinder. If you use 87 octane (87 octane means the fuel has less ability to compress in the cylinder ) this fuel burns earlier in the cylinder so it does not deliver the most of it. More if you press hard on the accelerator and the engine jumps fast to high rpm, when using 87 octane the turbulent combusion starts creating in the engine. Turbulent combusion is not good becouse it decrease performance rapidly. Also when using lower octane the engine will not last long at it schoud. If i schoudynt use for example 93 octane tell me why they still do 93 octane fuel and why in the europe they use 98 octane ? I think there is a reason why they still do it. Mechanic will tell you that 87 is OK becouse it did not hurt the engine, but if you wont your engine to work more precisly use highter octane.

 

I've used at least 89 the first time but after that, since gas prices are so high, I didnt care and just use 92+. My Ipod link on my sport locks up the ipod sometimes. Not often but twice since I got it.

 

Gas prices ar high, but using 93 octane fuel and synthetic oil will pay off. My father has a little car Suzuki Swift it has about 185,000 miles and no problems with engine at all, te only think he do is replacing the oil every 12,000 miles and using 93 all the time. Car works with no problems. if you calculate using better fuel and oil it will pay off after time. And I just put synthetic oil to my fit today

 

Welcome and congrats on the Fit, other than that.....everything in your post seemed pretty well taken care of by the above posters... ...enjoy...

 

I forgot: SORRY for my writing mistakes, but I'm still learning english Promise to improwe in the future.

 

I was wondering about that. Looks like English isn't your first language. Good luck on improving it.

 

You forget that alot of people on this forum like running their fit under 3000 RPM to save fuel. 87 should be fine as long as you don't take the RPM pass 3000 RPM because the timing most likely restrict the combustion in the engine under those conditions. There's no real need to use higher octane unless you're gonna race, or install a turbo/supercharger.

 

That is true, but i think most people with MT runs over 3000rpm a lot ( for example me ) so i just wonted to mention whot is the difference in general. I don't think it's wrong !

 

If you want to throw money out the tailpipe, go ahead and put the higher octane fuel in your car. The engine will not perform any better with the higher octane as long as you are not getting pinging while accelerating to high RPM, or while going up steep hills, or passing another car on the highway. Pinging sounds like someone is dropping marbles inside the engine compartment. If you don't hear pinging, then 87 octane is just fine. If the engine is pinging and the higher octane gasoline stops the pinging take the car to the Honda dealer had have them check the engine and its computer because something is wrong with the car.

The Honda Music Link was discontinued by Honda. Other third party iPod connections may be available from other sources.

 

This is what i sed in my firs post "More if you press hard on the accelerator and the engine jumps fast to high rpm, when using 87 octane the turbulent combusion starts creating in the engine" I put my Fit to 7000 rpm a lot so i'm just using 93 and its OK with me. If you use 87, I'm not saying that it is wrong for your engine or for your. 87 is for engines with compresion ratio 9.3:1. Take a look at your Fit manual and tell me what compression ratio has engine in your Fit? is't it 10.4:1 so i think it has kind of high comprassion ratio?. So, driving slow the 87 is more efficient for you, but driving dynamicly 93 is more efficient for your engine. It's like putting a light person for a light job and putting a strong person for a hard job. If you drive slow put 87 and if you drive dynamicly its better for your car to run on 93. Put a light person to a hard job, he wont last long.

 

i asked about the ipod controlled from the honda deck too. apparently there is a software issue with older model and that some ipod gen. wouldn't work with the honda deck in previous model. i think they are trying to reconfig it right now, but go with the aux output. that's alot better! good luck