Race Red - New FiST Owner

[geoffyb]

Thanks Perry!

I can't bash on the Honda Fit Sport. It made a great economy car. Even had one of the few stick shifts when I bought it.

Which begs the question, am I the only one who gets extremely bored driving an automatic? I haven't driven anything with real horsepower that was an automatic, but all the rentals over the years were just boring.

Also, the Fit was black. Wanted a white one at the time, but got a great deal on that one.

I did own a G35 coupe and a B5 S4 that were both automatics. They were both decently fast but both would have benefited more with a manual.

 

[Xanergy]

Knowing that ST's only come with a manual transmission really helped my purchasing decision. Just feel more connected with the car that way.

 

[Redlinez]

Congrats and you got as good of a deal as anyone could have. I'm looking at a 0 option car at invoice $21,734 less $1000 in rebates and 0% for 60. I'm far from being a student and I'm a veteran, not active duty or retired. Still a crazy deal to me though. $300 was not bad for tint depending on what kind. I paid that for the ceramic Formula One last week on my wife's new Sonata, and that was with a dealer's discount.

 

[Xanergy]

When I brought the price to another dealer, he suggested I go back to the previous dealer and ask them to split the cost of the tint. That was with the tuxedo black ST that I was originally looking at.

This tint did have a few bubbles. The only inside bubble was on the hatch at one of the defroster lines. All the others were at the edge. Took it in today to ask about them after it had been 48 hours, he just pushed in the bubbles and told me to come back if I notice them after this weekend. Life-time warranty on the tint, but would rather have them done correctly the first time.

More pictures to come after I get her washed up.

 

[me32]

Welcome. sounds like like you got a great deal. post some pics of your ride

 

[FiSTpump]

Let's see. $1000 Ecoboost, $500 Student and $500 Ford Credit.

Financed through Ford for the $500 Ford Credit. Slightly higher APR but brought payments below the $250 mark. $7500 down.

Missed out on private cash!

 

[Xanergy]

Didn't see it available anywhere. Must be from some flyer or something, tried to get all the incentives I could.

I did see that other members were using something called private cash. Didn't show up on any lists I was looking at. Had to get the sales guy to go find documentation just for the student discount.

 

[Xanergy]

Post tint.

 

[scenicroadways]

Looks great with that tint, especially in red with the rado wheels.

 

[Xanergy]

Thanks! Still keeping an eye out for bubbles or anything. Don't want to worry about having to redo it a couple months from now because I missed a small detail.

 

[Perry]

Love the look with the tint. I've not tinted mine, but I'm becoming persuaded, I think!

 

[Xanergy]

Life-time warranty was the only reason I paid for it. Still going to have to make them redo a couple sections.

Also found a roach inside the dome light area. Must have been there since the car was put together. Other than that, I need them to take a good look at her. Keep getting that ignition alert on my MFT.

 

[Perry]

Ignition alert? Did I miss something?

 

[Xanergy]

Yeah, on the alert tab on the MFT, every once in a while I find an alert that tells me to "Please turn the ignition off. Press the engine on/off button." I may not have worded it right, but the had the service department look at it. They just scratched their heads and cleared the car with the OBD reader.