This video was so dope. The angles, the tools used, very informative and very little need for words. I used this to do a quick fender removal. It looked like no one's Gd that I have met had the clip that goes between. The fender and the driver door.
I just bought a 2008 Honda Fit that was damaged as well. I paid $1100 for it with 198,000 miles. I have $2300 into it total now and it runs and drives good. It's amazing how much the cheap parts on ebay add up to. The body on mine doesn't look as good as yours though. I just repaired all the mechanical issues.
Just bought one a couple of months ago, for 1500 had starting issues was just spark plugs and new battery 🔋 works perfectly throwing money into it slowly
@@Jonathan-SZ UPDATE: By the time I was done with the car I had a total of $4100 into the car between buying it and buying all the parts for it. It runs great though now! I have put 12,000 miles on it in the year that I have owned the car.
Doing all this seems like a lot of work. But hell.. every body shop that worked on my 2008 Fit did a poor job anyways. Misaligned panels, bad paint job, missing clips... You name it. I don't have the tools or space to work with my car. But I don't mind spending the time on it if I could. It's a happiness machine for me.
Really nice work here, it's nice to see aftermarket body panels available for this car but the fit is generally questionable. Looks like you got the gaps around the headlight, hood, bumper, and door on the fender to line up pretty nicely. Do you mind sharing the part number for the fender you purchased? Any notes/observations on the fender compared to the OEM driver side? Thanks for sharing this video
Where did you order the mounts for the headlights? Just hit a deer last night and need to replace fender, headlight, and mounts/brackets for my lights. If you could get back with me soon I'd really appreciate it 🙌🙌
I ended up taking it to a body shop that I worked at in high school. I looked into painting it myself but the material cost was about $200. I had the bumper and fender painted for $300. He can buy paint for much cheaper than I can and if I screwed up I would have had $400 in materials doing it twice. I wish i would have sprayed them for the sake of the video but it looks better than what I could have done.
Cool, that's a great resource to have access to. I've used a friend's setup to prime and paint small parts, but nothing big. Paint is so hard; I'm never really happy with how it turns out. It makes sense to use a professional setup if you are investing in new body panels and plastics and have it look sharp.
@@halfSpinDoctor my girlfriend also worked as a paint chemist at PPG so if I sprayed it and it looked like crap or the match was way off I would never hear the end if it. 🤣
If you don't dismantle and inspect, how do you know how deep the damage is? I guess should have used the control arm that was folded like a taco as well?
Nope just this front corner. The bumper is a little loose and sagging behind the rear wheels because, rust ate away the body where the bumper clips into it.
How do I check if my honda fit 2008 has a telescopic feature for the steering wheel ? (unless I’ve mistaken the vocab, I meant to say the steering wheel coming forward to driver or moving back far from driver)
@@RepairGeek That’s what I did and I thought maybe there could be other ways to check it… Thanks! Is there a good way to adjust the steering wheel telescopically when the car does not have that feature?
Honda Fits must be accident magnets. 90% of the marketplace listings around here are branded title/rebuilt. You can tell right away too as the rebuilt ones are always photographed in empty parking lots or some random public green space. There's never any description about what was repaired, the miles are often unusually low and it may sport out of state plates. Too shady for me. Interesting video.
I have a 2013 fit that was in a minor passenger side bumper collision. The headlight is maybe a quarter of an inch pushed back but I can’t find anything bent or pushed back. Any ideas where to look?
bumper panel beats out wiih hair dryer on inside, fender cost 60 off wreck, paints and primer 60, 120 for good headlight and a few hours labour. repair shop quoted 2500 dollar for repair on 1200 dollar car?? yeah right!!
This video was so dope. The angles, the tools used, very informative and very little need for words. I used this to do a quick fender removal. It looked like no one's Gd that I have met had the clip that goes between. The fender and the driver door.
I just bought a 2008 Honda Fit that was damaged as well. I paid $1100 for it with 198,000 miles. I have $2300 into it total now and it runs and drives good. It's amazing how much the cheap parts on ebay add up to. The body on mine doesn't look as good as yours though. I just repaired all the mechanical issues.
Just bought one a couple of months ago, for 1500 had starting issues was just spark plugs and new battery 🔋 works perfectly throwing money into it slowly
@@Jonathan-SZ UPDATE: By the time I was done with the car I had a total of $4100 into the car between buying it and buying all the parts for it. It runs great though now! I have put 12,000 miles on it in the year that I have owned the car.
@@MyLifeThai371can u help me
This is the reason you don't try to eat spaghetti and drive
Yeah should have went for the hamburger, easier to control lol.
Man … what DON’T you do? Impressive!! 👍👍
Cook.
Doing all this seems like a lot of work. But hell.. every body shop that worked on my 2008 Fit did a poor job anyways. Misaligned panels, bad paint job, missing clips... You name it.
I don't have the tools or space to work with my car. But I don't mind spending the time on it if I could. It's a happiness machine for me.
Wow excellent job
Thanks for showing us
Thanks for this video. I'm about to do something similar. hoping I don't have to buy a new bumper, though.
Really nice work here, it's nice to see aftermarket body panels available for this car but the fit is generally questionable. Looks like you got the gaps around the headlight, hood, bumper, and door on the fender to line up pretty nicely. Do you mind sharing the part number for the fender you purchased? Any notes/observations on the fender compared to the OEM driver side?
Thanks for sharing this video
well done
What's the tool at 0:50? Is it a saw or something? You have to cut the fender off at the bottom???
Impact gun. There's bolts holding the bottom of the fender on.
@@RepairGeek is it possible to remove the bolts without one?
where is the best site to order Honda FIt Parts as well as the tutoring to follow . I have a Hoda Fit 2011 with a missing liners ,guards and sun visor
Nice video. Just curious to know what you might charge to do this job? minus the control arm.
I need one of those shirts
I have a 2013 Honda fit with the hood crushed in. Do you have a video on how to remove a extremely damaged hood?
Where did you order the mounts for the headlights? Just hit a deer last night and need to replace fender, headlight, and mounts/brackets for my lights. If you could get back with me soon I'd really appreciate it 🙌🙌
What’s the name of that part you took off at 1:12? I’m having a hard time finding it
Seems like a bunch of push-pins. Plastic, two-piece expanding plugs basically.
Your paint job looks fantastic. Do you have your own paint setup, or take the panels somewhere to get painted?
I ended up taking it to a body shop that I worked at in high school. I looked into painting it myself but the material cost was about $200. I had the bumper and fender painted for $300. He can buy paint for much cheaper than I can and if I screwed up I would have had $400 in materials doing it twice.
I wish i would have sprayed them for the sake of the video but it looks better than what I could have done.
Cool, that's a great resource to have access to. I've used a friend's setup to prime and paint small parts, but nothing big. Paint is so hard; I'm never really happy with how it turns out. It makes sense to use a professional setup if you are investing in new body panels and plastics and have it look sharp.
@@halfSpinDoctor my girlfriend also worked as a paint chemist at PPG so if I sprayed it and it looked like crap or the match was way off I would never hear the end if it. 🤣
@@RepairGeek Oh boy, that's a lot of pressure 😅.
Good job
lot of dismantling to repair fender and light?
If you don't dismantle and inspect, how do you know how deep the damage is? I guess should have used the control arm that was folded like a taco as well?
How much would you say this repair would have cost with the parts (2000$) and labour?
Lol maybe 500 in parts. I had 300 in paint.
Whatsapp geek long time no see great work
Work has been nuts because of Covid.
@@RepairGeekthe same with every body it sucks but.
This looks like every suspension fix in Car Mechanic Simulator 2021.
Good buy. Did it have rear end damage also? Thanks from Carlos
Nope just this front corner. The bumper is a little loose and sagging behind the rear wheels because, rust ate away the body where the bumper clips into it.
@@RepairGeek how much would this type of damage cost to be repaired?
How do I check if my honda fit 2008 has a telescopic feature for the steering wheel ?
(unless I’ve mistaken the vocab, I meant to say the steering wheel coming forward to driver or moving back far from driver)
Undo the latch for the tilt and try to pull or push it.
@@RepairGeek That’s what I did and I thought maybe there could be other ways to check it… Thanks!
Is there a good way to adjust the steering wheel telescopically when the car does not have that feature?
I can’t even fix my saggy bumper and you just replaced the whole damn thing!
They're actually really cheap. Shipping kills you though.
Honda Fits must be accident magnets. 90% of the marketplace listings around here are branded title/rebuilt. You can tell right away too as the rebuilt ones are always photographed in empty parking lots or some random public green space. There's never any description about what was repaired, the miles are often unusually low and it may sport out of state plates. Too shady for me. Interesting video.
I have a 2013 fit that was in a minor passenger side bumper collision. The headlight is maybe a quarter of an inch pushed back but I can’t find anything bent or pushed back. Any ideas where to look?
bumper panel beats out wiih hair dryer on inside, fender cost 60 off wreck, paints and primer 60, 120 for good headlight and a few hours labour.
repair shop quoted 2500 dollar for repair on 1200 dollar car?? yeah right!!