What Did You Do To Your Smart Today?

[MikeT]

Today we drove to Port Renfrew and completed the loop into Victoria for dinner. Then home, a bit over 300 km. The car at Port Renfrew:

[Willys]

The time has come to get serious about solving my issues...lol.

Time to start the soaking ritual to enable removing 2 seriously stuck in place injectors.

I have been on a 29,300km  trek across the country and up to the Arctic Ocean just to say yep I have done that and been there.....lol.  I comeback to a yard that needs a week of attention and 2 smart cars in either need of similar attention or a quick bullet to put both of us out of our misery...!  Don't tempt me! 
So today I start the soaking  of the carbon build up while the yard work begins....AUGH....!!!!!!

[Wild!]

I recently purchased a 06 cabriolet form a former member and installed a tape deck ,used the upgraded speaker system that came with it.  Changed the head lights to led to reduce the current draw on the wires,  Installed some under dash lights and installed a dash cam this weekend. I haven't decided on fogs yet.  I think after the fogs that's as far as I want to go with this baby.

[MikeT]

[smartnhappy]

I washed it.  Ran her thru the car wash as a special treat.  For me, this is a big deal.

After a lifetime of meticulously cleaning and polishing all my many vehicles, I decided

to let the car begin aging gracefully and develop its own patina.  It's approaching 20 years old.

 

[Mjolinor]

Never having washed mine in the eight years of ownership it is probably time I thought about it. The mirror spiders are getting a bit much, every morning it's like a pair of parachutes on the windows, takes 10 MPH off the top speed.

[Wild!]

This wasn't today but I when could the last couple of days changed the rear springs, shocks, flex pipe, removed the Brabus muffler and its heat shield removed the insulation that was impregnated with salt, then reinstalled that heat shield with out the insulation, replaced the hinges on the trunk, replaced the alternator and next to change the clutch , all in just over 300k. After this hoping to get another 300k out of my 451 . Sorry no pictures I'm pretty sure all is this is already on the sight somewhere didn't want to do a repeat. Oh my bad I think I just did!  

Edited July 21, 2024 by Wild!
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[MikeT]

Dropped the car off at M-B Nanaimo for:

• front A-Arms (supplied by me)
• font ball joints if needed (supplied by me)
• re-installation of the 30K km original springs and dampers (the BRABUS stuff is worn out)
• recharge A/C (receiver/dryer supplied by me, if needed)
• new rear bump stops - the BRABUS springs made it bottom out all the time so they're exploded. Not available from smart, got a set from my friend in Germany
• new drive belts and tensioner (the latter supplied by me, not available from smart)
• rear wheel bearing (supplied by me)
• New engine and transmission mounts (supplied by me)
• diagnose a whine in the alternator or belt tensioner

It'll be there a couple of weeks due to a short staffing situation...

[Henry]

Washed and waxed the canada one.  Bought a new battery and pulled the fuses to the park lights.  Maybe I will get that sorted this year,  Car is now sitting at 67,000kms.

 

[Wild!]

Today I put a single din into my newest smart with just little over 1K . The car never had a stereo in it just fake one.

So I wanted to be able to pull out the deck from my other ones and plug it to this one. Nothing to special about this one other than interior blue and orange.  

[Wild!]

Worked on Rommie today, honed the cylinder heads ,put new main bearings, connecting rod bearings and new pistions. Just have to find my papers around here with the tork settings to finish that part. I may work on her this weekend some more like the oil pump, pan and the head. Man I have not done any thing on her in a few years, my bad!