Henry

If the car has been sitting for awhile it could be that your alternator has seized. Just a thought. Alan

About fuel additives. I used Howes for years and found that it was hard to get any in the tank without spilling most of it down the side of the car. Someone on here showed me how to simply pour it into the end of the fuel nozzle at the pump before adding fuel no more spilling. what is considered the best additive currently, I have just been gifted a 45 gallon drum of Jet fuel so am looking for mostly higher lubricity and a cetane boost. Jet fuel has a lower cetane rating than diesel. Not wanting to hijack this thread so moderator please move it if it gets out of hand, Henry

Found it. 100-mpg-challenge-revisited-9922.html Henry

Welcome to the club. Im in the Surrey Langley area and am available to help. You will find your milage goes up dramaticaly if you keep the rpms below 2000, do a search for 100 mpg challenge. Alan

One has to wonder if there are any aftermarket 14" wheels out there that would fit the smart 3 lug axels. this would give more sidewall without changing wheel diameter

Hey Mike Still round and looking great. The C1 turned over to 66,000 this spring, Still feels and smells like a new car. Not bad for a 16 year old car.

this is how the verdestein look on my smart

Sway bar link would be my guess too. Alan

I think you are mistaken, Vredestein quatrac is a high end all season tire. the ones on my car are H rated. So they are good to 210 kmh, now if I can coax the smart diesel to go that fast, LOL https://www.tyrereviews.com/Tyre/Vredestein/Quatrac.htm Alan

I bought my last set from Eddie at flying tiger developments. He serviced my smart at the same time.

Oh No! I have been filling up my smart right to the top forever. Never thought that I might be screwing up a charcoal filter. Alan

I put the Canada one back on the road for the summer. Fuel gauge is mis reading so need to buy some diesel cleaner and run it through a few tanks. I used to run Howes but what is the latest best cleaner that everyone is using now. Alan

Welcome to the club I will look for you in Langley. What colour is your car? I still get a grin when I am cruising with the top down. Alan

How did you come across an 04? I thought that the first ones into canada were the 05 s.

The 450 has the neat function of turning the day time running lights on and off. Saves the headlights for when you need them. Just be sure to add some other lights to the car so people see you. Someone here correct me if Im wrong, but by simply holding the high beams on with the light stalk and hit the unlock button on your remote, turns the daytime running lights off. To turn them back on Hold the high beams on and hit the lock button. Alan

Yes welcome to the club. Good choice of years by the way 05 and 06 were the only years deisels were imported into Canada. They're my favourite.

My first Smart Hit a boulder on the the side of the road, it actually twisted the frame. If you have access to the car, put the top down and measure from the top corner of the windshield A pillar to the top of the opposite B pillar (the one behind the door) Now measure the other A pillar to the opposing B pillar, if the measurements are not really close there is a good chance the frame is bent and the car will never drive right again. A frame shop can try to twist the car back, but it didn't work for my little car.

If I remember correctly, big if, The newer engines had higher fuel pressure and a different injector that allowed more power out of the little diesel. Alan

I have. Back when my first smart was only a few years old I scored about a hundred gallons of fresh Jet a from work. I added about a quarter cup of howes diesel conditioner per tank, I found that my kilometres per tank dropped from around 650 per tank to somewhere in the high five hundreds. it also didn't have quite the power of diesel. It was free and it lasted for close to two years, I also filled up with regular diesel if I was out of town. I heard that the US military is moving to jet a for all vehicals so they can have a stronger supply chain when out of the country, so tanks, personnel carriers and humvies can run on the same fuel as the helicopters and hercules aircraft. I believe the fighter jets use Jet B with the naptha added for high altitude. Alan

Just a thought. Since the signals got moved from the headlights down to the grill the wire could be the extension to reach the grill. I know they did a hack job on the rear lights to remove all possibility of reactivating the rear fog marker light. Alan

Just to throw this out there but is your hot air/cold air diffuser door hooked up. I had an older car where the sleeve came loose from the clamp so the door didn't move when I selected between hot and cold. Same issue as your facing as it always blew hot even when selecting the cold air. Alan Also when the compressor is running, try to reach the inlet hose into the evaporator heater core area to see if the inlet line is cool. it should become frosty just before the evaporator.

Not the foggiest. Looks like something fancy was mounted there. The CDI's don't have anything that close to the window. Alan

Silver passion was gone on my way past. Alan

Hi Margo Welcome to the club. I saw silver on silver CDI at a small lot on hwy 4 on my way home to Port Alberni this weekend. It was sporting the passion rims so in all likely hood it is a passion. I will stop there today on my way back to work and get the base info. if it is not behind a fence I will get the vin. MikeT can run it through the data base and tell you about how it was ordered and where it has spent a lot of its life, he can do that for most smart cars so send him a message with any smart your thinking of buying and he will look it up for you. Flying Tiger Developments is in Richmond and he is my non dealer go to for my CDIs have had four in the family. If you want a pre-vehical inspection I would head to Eddy's owner of flying tiger and sole empolyee. !00,000 is low milage for a 16 year old car; The glass roof in a lot of smart cars does not open, the power moon roof (that does open) was an option. The pure was the base model, the pulse the sport model (slightly nicer interior than the pure) and had paddle shifters on the steering wheel standard, the passion was the luxury model with the nicest interior, but no paddle shifter as standard equipment. All 05-06 models came with the 40 hp, 3 cylinder diesel that is capable of sub 3 lt per 100 km returns, it is also slightly underpowered and will test the patients of most people behind you at the light. Alan

Vredestein Quadrac-5 is what I run on my Canada one CDI. A true all season tire and I have run them for a few years now with no problems. I don't take the car out in the winter so can't comment on the winter performance they brag about, but it is comforting to know that if I ran into snow along the way they are rated for it. I bought mine from Flying Tiger as I trust him with most of my involved maintenance. He didn't have your size listed so just gave a quick internet search and found them fairly easily. https://www.vulcantire.com/tire_detail/quatrac5_s.htm_22055 Welcome back by the way. Alan