What's up everybody? My name is Ryan and I live in Orange County, NY. My other car is an '01 Audi TT that I have fully modded minus a big turbo. I'm pretty involved with the TT crowd and do a lot of group drives and events and such. I'm a regular contributor on the quattroworld.com MK1 TT forum.

I'm excited to say that I picked up a new '13 Sport Manual in Polished Metal this past Friday. Fell in love with the car over the weekend by taking it on some of my favorite roads. My daily driver/beater for the past few years has been a 98 Acura CL 5spd that is truly a great car but I was seriously getting tired of it and wanted something fun, and the Fit delivers on that big time!





The main reason I purchased the Fit is to haul my puppy around and still get good gas mileage for my 60 mile per day commute. Maximus likes the Fit almost as much as I do. He keeps trying to get me to teach him how to drive.



The Fit's first day on the job it helped me transport the TT's summer wheel setup followed shortly thereafter by a trip to Lowes to pickup a new screen door. You gotta love the utility of these cars:


A family photo including the wife's Altima:


I've been lurking on here the past week or so and have already ordered the following things:

1) Formfit hood protector
2) U-Ace 3D floor liners
3) Black Clazzio Seat Covers
4) Headlight Armor fog protectors and rear tail light smoke covers
5) A dog barrier and door protectors
6) Waiting on my oem window vents and cargo liner too.

Looking forward to being involved on here and modding the Fit for handling purposes first and foremost. I'm pretty happy about the performance of it at the moment. Definitely better than I was expecting.

 

congrats. got the same as you but in automatic. Love that color!

 

I like the color too. Where did you get the seat covers from? I wanted to order from Bean Garage but they seem to be out of stock of both Black and Ivory. I wasn't interested in the Black/Grey combo that was in stock.

I wouldn't mind the wait for the shipping from Japan, but we may be moving to a new address soon.

 

Thanks. I wanted a blue one but i'm happy with the grey.

I ordered through their website. Didn't see any indication of in stock or not. I would do black and grey. Will have to email and see.

 

Blacks are in stock and shipping today according to Spencer.

 

I have a 13 Fit Base 5 MT that I bought in Jan. Same color as yours. I think the color makes the car look more "upscale". Wife & I took a trip and had the car packed out with "stuff". Went from Phoenix to Sedona, from 1300' to about 6000', no problem (some downshifting from 5th to 4th cuz of slow traffic). Really love this little car. It really IS different than other cars I've had and that is why I like it.

 

Congrats on the new purchase, you have a nice clean Fit to start out with. Welcome!

 

welcome....you'll like it here...

 

Thanks guys. Lots of info to sift through.

 

Welcome!

I dig that color so much! Makes the Fit look so upscale.

 

and nice choice . We thought of the Polished Metal but bought the Silver for the '13 . Your dog is a handsome fellow .

 

congrats and welcome to the forum

 

Thank you very much. He's pretty awesome and I think he knows it.

 

I hual my GS in my 13sport as well. I never fold the seats down for her though because it helps contain her fur into 1 area.


Congrats on the purchase. I think the sear covers will help keep the fur off the seats.

 

Welcome and congrats!

 

Thanks guys. Parts started arriving today. Got my floor mats and kurgo dog barrier and door guards.

 

Who's the boss of the house ? All he needs is some and a remote for the television making him the master .

 

Pics of dog barrier when installed. That color looks great.

 

Here's some pics of the door covers and the barrier with the seats down.



It hangs from 4 plastic tabs between the window and seal. May not work well when I get my windows tinted.


As far as the dog barrier goes, it uses rings that you put on the headrest posts. I found I could get it a lot tighter if I put the ring that is supposed to go on the inner driver side post on the outer side post. As you can see it's off-center at the moment. Still have to try and make it fit better and tighter and look for better places to hook it under the seat.

It goes all the way down to the floor and has nice steel inserts that keep it pretty solid. The bottom needs to be pulled down tighter to hopefully do away with the little bulge in the middle. It makes putting the seats back up a little harder than normal.

But here it is:

 

Congratulations!

I picked up the same model at the beginning of the month, albeit used (one previous owner for 6 months). I love it.





That's a lot of beautiful dog!

Mine doesn't take up quite as much space (seen here in her previous ride) :



I'm with you on 2, and on 3 with an asterisk-- I'm debating paying up and getting some blue stitching, possibly gray inserts in the black. Decisions! The other items may come in time. For now, I'm still just soaking everything in.

Have fun out there.

~ S.