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Thanks for the tip, greatly appreciated!

Thank you for the invite, I would love to join you kind folks. Please let me know the locations and times.

So nice to meet you Smart142, and thank you so much for all the extra care and attention bestowed upon my old girl! I thoroughly enjoyed going over all the little eccentricities on her that likely would have cost me my first born at any MB dealer. Hope to come visit again in the spring!

Thank you to Leadwing, Willys and Nigel for recommending Glenn to me!! This is wonderful news, and so close to where I live, which is near nothing!! I will definitely be arranging a date with Glenn as soon as this horrible ice storm weather passes. I am so relieved that it is a solvable problem because I know that everytime dad had to go in for an A or B service he alluded to how far he had to bend over lol! God I miss Dad, I have never detailed the Smart Car because it still smells like him, believe it or not he used it as his work vehicle and had all his wooden stakes and signs for his real estate company in it with a sledge. Amazing the emotional connection we can develop for these cars!

Thanks Willys, I really appreciate your input! A shop would likely charge 3 hours for this no?

Thanks for the reply MikeT, and sorry, EGR valve, I am going cross eyed reading these posts lol! Is the in situ repair for this valve really hard? Do you think my husband and I could manage it, he's somewhat mechanical. My Suzuki is in the shop atm with a blown rad and can't fork out a grand or more, plus we live really far from the dealer.

Hello, From what I gather from reading on here, the issue I am currently having with my 2005 Smart could be a clogged CGR valve. I also drive like a granny, all city driving, and haven't been redlining it as suggested to blow it out. This car has sentimental value as I inherited it from my dad and he received his new Smart Car on the day my eldest child was born, in 2004. So she's had a lot of family history, but now I've just put in a thousand dollar struts/spring repair, new battery, and last year new alternator. So she's getting costly, but only has 150000 kms and I would like to see if I could get a few more. My question is, has anyone had any luck with fuel additives, someone suggested Mulligan's diesel fuel conditioner, but I see the company in Canada just filed for receivership. Someone else had luck with biodiesel to clean out the gunk, but I have no clue where I could even buy any in Canada and I'd likely burn down the house making it. The repair posted on here is far out of my realm, as you know these engines are difficult to access, and looks quite involved. It's obviously winter now, the check engine light is intermittently on, then goes into limp mode. When the light is off the power is fine, but has been more on then off lately. I hope this isn't the whole turbo exhaust unit needing fixing, because I would have to scrap her. Anyone have any ideas?