Body problems of the 2010 Honda FIT

Purchased car on March 4, 2025. Noticed tmps dashboard light was on, returned 3/5/2025, Ford replaced tire senor, light was still on, they replaced 4 tire senors. But did not replace all untill 4/19/2024, that is when I noticed a bubble and crack on tire and a broken sway bar link. Also they did not inspect my car within 7 days, they inspected it on 3/14/2025. No rejection sticker put on, so I was driving the car Honda without any sticker until they replaced another senor. Told me the tmps light would go off after I drove the car around. 24 Ford of south easton of easton, MA sold me a 2010 Honda Fit that has a driveshaft recall for corrosion. Also, faulty tire senors, replaced but dashboard tmps light is still on, lied about giving me a new tire, tire has bubbles on it and they put tire on rim facing in toward car wheel hub so it won't be visible, I noticed this and a broken sway bar link. Ford let me drive an unsafe car off the lot. They didn't offer to fix it, I went to axp auto , paid $183. 00 to fix the sway bar link, then to a tire shop to get a new tire . I went to Honda dealership and they replaced the driveshaft and gave me a $2000. 00 estimate of safety repairs that need to be fixed. Six weeks after I brought car, transmission engine light is constantly on. . . Many other thing wrong. Axle shaft r&r, front pads and rotor, 4 tires, dirty air filter, old oil filter black oil. Now transmission pressure senor needs replacement. List is long. Axp auto also gave me a $2,000. 00 quote on repairs, transmission fluid pressure switch gasket, etc. Steering tie rods, replace brakes. This Honda Fit is a deathtrap and I am scared to drive it. 24 Ford should have replaced driveshaft before I purchased car. They swindled me on the sales contact as I didn't know they charged me $6200. 00 in warranty, I was able to cancel one warranty total of $2000. 00, as t didn't cover brakes and other repairs, such as powertrain. Offered no gap to me. 24 Ford is bad.

Ignition and key has problems with key sticking and lock and unlocking doors with key not inserting and not unlocking doors, poor design and Honda knows it jut just ignores the problems.

Parked at a mall. Driver's door would not open. After many efforts I managed to get front passenger door open. Key would not unlock door from outside. For 2 days while waiting for appointment at dealership had to leave unlocked and use front passenger door. Dealership "found door latch faulty. " total cost over $800. 00. Has been replaced.

My issue is with the quickly degrading paint job on my vehicle. I have done nothing different from any other car I have owned, and I am parked in an apartment complex parking lot where all of my neighbors cars are not having any issues. The only car in the parking lot with paint degradation comparable to my car is a blue 1999 Honda civic, but it looks much better than my '10 Fit. Just to reiterate, we are parked in the same parking lot with the same amount of sun and elemental exposure. After looking to see if my VIN was listed under current Honda campaigns, I have found that it is not listed. However, a friend pointed out an ongoing campaign for 2006-2013 civics with extended paint warranties. The civics included are all in the dark blue or black color family, which is the same as my Fit. I looked up photos of the paint degradation on these civics, and not only are the paint colors almost exactly the same, but the degradation is in the same areas as that of my Fit. The roof and hood are the two biggest problem areas, and the campaign lists roof, trunk, hood, upper portion of the doors, and upper portions of the quarter panels. The degradation described on the civics is a chalky or cloudy appearance, exactly the same as my car's current appearance. Now, just to sum things 1. My car is in the year range of the campaigned civics. 2. My car is the same paint color family as the campaigned civics. 3. My car has the same areas of degradation as the campaigned civics, including the hood, the roof, and the upper portions of the doors. 4. My car has the exact same type of chalky, cloudy, oxidized degradation as the campaigned civics. 5. I am not the only Honda Fit owner with this problem. It is well documented online. 6. My car started degrading well inside the 7 year extended paint warranty period given to owners of the campaigned civics.

Air bag did not deploy during front end collision (car rear-ended another). Had been travelling ~40 mph; braked over a distance of approximately 3 to 4 car lengths while travelling down hill. Driver sustained concussion.

My daughter had an accident, this is her account: I was driving my 2010 Honda Fit on highway 880 northbound in the vicinity of alameda on Friday, January 16th 2015. I had been driving for at least a half hour on the highway and was in the left most lane going about 70 mph. Suddenly without any warning my car began to swerve violently to the right into the lane to my right. My first thought was that one of the tires had blown out, so I took my foot off the gas and did not touch the brakes, thinking just that I should try to keep the car away from other vehicles and as gently as I could bring it to the side of the road away from traffic. Immediately after the first swerve, the car did not react in the slightest to my steering attempts to keep it straight or away from traffic, and it swerved left and right a couple more times before hitting the concrete median on the left hand side of the highway. The front of the car crunched into the median, and the whole car flipped on its passenger side and scraped against the median before finally coming to a halt upside down. Once the car stopped I saw that miraculously nothing inside of the car was impeding my exit, and the glass on both the windows had completely shattered, so I undid my seatbelt and crawled out of the passenger side window and immediately stood up. Thankfully no other cars or passengers were involved, 911 was called, and the policeman who came said the incident sounded like it was due to tire damage from my description but then examined the wheels of the car and reported that he didn’t see anything awry with them, leaving the cause of the accident a mystery. I heard no sounds preceding the swerving, smelled no strange smells, noticed nothing strange about the car’s steering, and have had no indication whatsoever of anything being “off” with the car before the incident.

Clear coat and paint on the Honda Fit are defective. Peeling began after about 3 1/2 years of ownership. There are large patches of missing paint on the roof and a patch on the hood.