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#2301 of 2432 Re: Versa/Fit [usaf66] by kipk Nov 15, 2008 (3:25 am)
Replying to: usaf66 (Nov 13, 2008 8:56 pm) You could put slip covers on the seats. Or use a vacumn cleaner or tape roller frequently.   There are advantages to the Fit's interior, if you have needs to haul bulky items.   Another car option would be the Toyota "Yaris" hatch back in 3 door or 5 door.   Equally as good, or better, in gas mileage would be small sedans. They will generally be a bit quieter inside. Most have a good size trunk for hiding things from public eyes.   The Civic and Corolla are both slightly larger and possibly more comfortable than the Fit, and Yaris, and both use 1.8L engines, and run a little stronger. . The Yaris sedans and hatchbacks use a 1.5L engine.   EPA ratings and Drivers reporting on http://www.fueleconomy.gov/ show mileage a bit better with the Yaris models. Corolla, Civic and Fit all fall real close in mileage.   There are lots of smallish Sedans available, and the dealers are willing to "deal" on them. Not many Fits yet, and the dealers want full window sticker.   Best way I've found to buy locally is to use Edmunds "New Car" area. You can equip and price a car right there. Then click on the button and get dealers in your area to give you "Internet" prices.   An advantage to shopping this way is that they had best give their best price, because you are not captive in their show room and can simply hang up. Also find out about the prices on their Document fees, and Extended warranty,( if you want one) AND "Dealer installed Options", . Those are "Profit" items that we need to know about before visiting the dealer showroom. You want the DRIVE OUT PRICE ! Many or most dealers have "Internet Sales" departments.   Last time we bought a car for our son, there was $800+ difference in internet pricing. He got the $29K Ridgeline for $23k+. Honda was offering "Deals" but so were the dealers.   There won't be that much discount on smaller cars, but they still compete! Right now is a great time to buy!   Kip
#2302 of 2432 Re: 2009 Fit Sport Manual Mileage Update [tiff_c] by GBrianK Nov 15, 2008 (5:50 pm)
Replying to: tiff_c (Nov 14, 2008 8:32 am) Try 205/50 R16. They will fit the rims on the Fit and using the tire size calculator at 1010 Tires shows they aren't off by much.   http://www.1010tires.com/TireSizeCalculator.asp
#2303 of 2432 Re: Versa/Fit [usaf66] by thehermit Nov 15, 2008 (7:29 pm)
Replying to: usaf66 (Nov 13, 2008 8:56 pm) I have three large white dogs, smallest one is 65 pounds. I solved the problem with their hair. Go to a carpet store and get a piece of carpet, cut it to fit the back with the seats down. Then go to a fabrick store and get a piece of vinyl long enough to go from the headrest down and double that. Sew the ends together. Get four metal grommets, remove the front headrests and mark the vinyl where the headrest mounts and place the metal grommet in the vinyl. Run the headrest mounts through the grommet and you have a barrier so the dog cannot get to the front and a cover so they don't shed hair on the seats.
#2304 of 2432 Re: 2009 Fit Sport Manual Mileage Update [pmeyers] by mgutai Nov 17, 2008 (9:31 am)
Replying to: pmeyers (Nov 12, 2008 7:09 pm) I bought a winter wheel and tire package from Tirerack.com for my 07 Fit Sport and am VERY happy with it. The stock wheel/tire package had 15" Alloys on 195/55/15 tires. I did a 'minus one' sizing and went to a 14" steel wheel ($39 each) with four 175/65/14 Winterforce snow tires ($57each). It's true that the narrower tires work better in the snow and slush. The Blizzaks or Dunlop winter tires probably provide better traction than the Winterforce tires I purchased, but Cost was my primary motivator, and I've been satisfied with the better traction these provide compared with all-seasons. The black steel wheels look cool too, as I went to a junk yard and found 4 older Civic "H" silver wheel hubs, for the retro look.   As for mileage, running on the all-season OEM tires gets me between 36 and 40 MPG. With winter tires on, it drops maybe 2 MPG.   The 09 Fit Sport, however, comes with a different size wheel/tire package than my 07. It's listed as 185/55/16. You can go to Tirerack.com and check out what packages are available, but it looks like they have no 15" steel wheels, if you go the 'minus one' route.   Also, I think most of the older Civic wheels were 4-lug wheels, whereas the Fit is a 5-lug wheel. You might try looking at used Accord wheels? Or wait a year until more companies make the different size wheel/tire combo that's on the new Fit.   Hope this helps.
#2305 of 2432 Ethanol blends and mileage reports in this forum by fgeney Nov 17, 2008 (10:18 am)
I know this has been mentioned before, but it should be restated that any report of mileage in this forum should be accompanied by what gas blend you filled your tank with, in order to have a truly useful apples-to-apples comparison of mileage results with fellow Fit owners.   This is critical because ethanol has less energy content gallon for gallon than pure gasoline, so mileage will suffer the more ethanol is blended in. I used to complain that my mileage was worse than average until I realized that all regular gas in Massachusetts where I live is E10 (10% ethanol).   It takes 1.53 gallons of ethanol to equal the energy of 1 gallon of gasoline.   This means that if you can go 300 miles on 10 gallons of pure gas (30 mpg), you can only go about 196 miles on 10 gallons of pure ethanol, or 19.6 mpg (300 ÷ 1.53 = 196). Theoretically, since you can't put pure ethanol in a car that isn't specially designed for all-ethanol.   If you were to put E10 in the same vehicle, you would go 289.6 miles: 9/10 of 300 miles is 270, plus 1/10 of 196 miles is 19.6, equals 289.6 miles.   So your mileage goes from 30 mpg to just under 29, and the only difference is the fuel blend.   I think most people don't even realize that their gas may have 10% ethanol blended in, since it's not disclosed in any meaningful way at filling statons because all gas engines can run with small amounts of ethanol mixed in. It's usually written in small print on the pump, next to the yellow sticker with the octane rating. At higher percentages (more than 15%) engines and fuel lines need to be modified to accommodate ethanol's corrosive effects.   FYI, with 16K on my '07 Fit Sport, I average between 29-33 mpg in evenly split city/hwy driving, using E10.   Editorial aside: coupled with its huge agricultural and production costs, not to mention all its government subsidies, ethanol's mileage penalty makes the whole ethanol-as-a-solution-to-our-dependence-on-foreign-oil propaganda one big crock. In my opinion.
#2306 of 2432 Amen by pf_flyer HOST Nov 17, 2008 (10:25 am)
You definitely want to be a part of our The Inconvenient Truth About Ethanol discussion!
#2307 of 2432 '07 sport auto 3400 miles in 7 days--36mpg by dadof6 Nov 20, 2008 (5:08 am)
Trip from SD to NY at an averaged of 36mpg. Speeds of 80mph over 750miles in SD, 75mph over 350miles in MN, 75mph over 450 miles in IA and 65-70mph the rest of the way. This on pure gasoline. The pumps were labeled "contains up to 10% ethonal" until we got to to PA so we knew what we were getting. I have found over the years my fuel mileage drops about 5% when using blended fuel which reinforces what others have said here so I avoid it on long trips. BTW-drove through 2 wet snow storms averaging about 40mph over 100 miles. We got 41mpg over 3 tanks of fuel running at the lower speeds. On A Strange Note--we filled up 3 times & got 11.4,11.7 & 11.7 gals in the tank with the low fuel light on just 1 of those times. Tank holds 10.8 per owners manual.
#2308 of 2432 I wish I could avoid it by pf_flyer HOST Nov 20, 2008 (5:36 am)
The last non-ethanol station disappeared here in September
#2309 of 2432 Re: Honda Fit - Gas Mileage Report [Sylvia] by fit43mpg Nov 24, 2008 (1:55 pm)
Replying to: Sylvia (Apr 22, 2006 8:32 pm) I have a 2008 Fit Base A/T that consistently gets 43 mpg highway with the A/C off! When my wife drives the car the mileage drops to 41-42 mpg highway. With the A/C on we get 38-40 mpg depending on the wind. The car really seems to struggle in a head wind with the A/C on, but has little trouble once it is turned off. Needless to say, we are very pleased with the fuel economy of this car! Replies to this message: rpm7 (Dec 04, 2008 2:57 pm)
#2310 of 2432 Mileage Update #4 by byron2 Dec 01, 2008 (11:35 am)
'09 Sport Auto. Car now has just over 1000 miles on it. Now that my daughter has her license, pretty much only she drives it. This means that all driving is purely local (the hilly SF Peninsula) stop and go and because of this she probably has not exceeded 45 mph since we last filled the tank. From a MPG perspective this is probably worse than driving in Manhattan since it is flatter there. At least I hope so since she last filled the tank and reset the counter about 110 miles ago and the computer now shows 20.4 mpg. I know she does not have her foot in it since she is still getting comfortable with driving in general and remains quite cautious.   Anyone else getting mileage like this in purely city driving? FWIW, we did get 38 mpg on an almost-all-freeway trip to look at colleges when the car had about 500 miles on it.   Thanks, Byron Replies to this message: bprenderson (Dec 01, 2008 12:49 pm) rpm7 (Dec 04, 2008 3:05 pm)

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