How To Change Latch On Hatchback 2014 Honda Fit

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Rear Tailgate Hatch Stuck On Your Honda Fit? Offset Here Before You Take It To A Mechanic

If the rear hatch on your Honda Fit won't open, try this simple fix.

Is the tailgate or hatch on your Honda Fit stuck? When you lot catch the handle with the Fit unlocked, does the hatch handle feel "expressionless" and unresponsive? Don't panic. Yous may exist able to get dorsum on the road very speedily.

Set up Your Honda Fit Hatch Latch
The starting time thing to do is to driblet the second row Magic seats and climb in back headed toward the hatch door. Use your cell phone flashlight and look to come across if there is a little pigsty nigh the bottom middle of the within of the hatch. If in that location is, put your finger inside the hole and about an inch or two inside yous may find in that location is a small-scale lever y'all can rotate from left to correct. Do that.

At present clamber back out of the Fit and go effectually to the back. Make sure the car is unlocked completely (not just driver's door) and effort the handle again. Information technology may well open the hatch for you. If so, you have just saved a trip to the mechanic, or mayhap prevented a trip in the virtually term.

We have to credit Michael Watson's Youtube video with this fix. Information technology worked for us - and not merely temporarily. Our Fit'due south hatch handle quit, and nosotros practical the simple fix. Two weeks later on, and multiple lock and unlock cycles and the Fit is operating normally. We plan to have our mechanic clean and lubricate the hatch handle during its side by side oil modify service.

The Success of the Reliable Honda Fit
The Honda Fit has been a fantastically successful vehicle for Honda. 77% of Fit owners report that they would purchase some other Fit. Intended to fill the gap left when the Borough morphed into a midsized machine, the subcompact Fit became a popular selection for many in cities, many on a budget, and many who only wanted a great entry-level automobile. In our area, information technology is known as the "Offical Vehicle of Providence Rhode Island." The Fit has as well proven to exist very reliable. We promise this fix helped you. If it did, please leave usa a notation in the comments section beneath or feel gratis to request other topics.

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