What Did You Do To Your Smart Today?

[Sapper]

ForTwo 450 Nightrun

 

Front end:  Replaced both struts, springs and top bearings. Both wheel bearings and both bottom ball joints.  All reasonably simple to do, just fiddly and could have done without having to take the front end off and the headlights just to change the struts!  Fitted new front fog lights.

 

Inside: Lost the code to the radio, then spent far too long tearing the radio out and reading the 'chip' to recover the code 

 

Replaced 2 rear tyres.

 

Next Month...  Drop engine, replace all engine mounts and while it's down do a service and replace the coils, plugs, oil pump, timing chain and water pump.

[MikeT]

I have to do most of that soon on my car. The BRABUS sport suspension (springs and dampers both) have crapped out at 172K km (140K of actual use), so the original ones that are like new will go back in. New engine mounts have been in my garage for 4 years.....I do need to order new swivel bearings and bump stops for the rear, both of which have exploded. I have new A-Arms (not the cheap Chinese shit) and ball joints too, so I may do those at the same time as a mid-life refit.

 

So to do the engine mounts, I presume dropping the rear X-member is required. If so, it's a good thing I have the factory long boy bolts just for that purpose.

[Avenge95]

Not today, but slowly over the past couple months, finished it up this past weekend. 

Wrapped in Matte GT3RS Purple

Lowering kit (Smart Madness lowering springs)

Brabus Wheels

 

[Willys]

Hmmmm......I ordered a injector seat cutter and new seals for my cars.....I have two injectors new which are leaking black ooze and it's all due to bad seals trying to seal against bad seats.  So another tool to add to the collection....when will it stop?

 

[MikeT]

Changed the front pads for the first time on the Canada 1 at 172,500 km. Still might have had 40,000 km in them but they took a beating a year ago on the track day and I had a set on my shelf so it was done. The ears of the pads that rest on the caliper saddle are susceptible on a car like this to binding on the cast iron due to rust and that in turn leads to dragging brakes. Good to get that done, also did engine oil and filter plus air filter.

 

Today I gave her a good wax job, the first in a few years. I also did all 4 pads on one of my daughter's Hyundai. The dealer in Nanaimo had told her the car needed pads, rotors and two "binding" rear calipers. The rear pistons screwed in easily - not seized - and rotors were fine. Saved her $1850. Shithead dealers bug me. (They also recommended another $4200 in work, only $380 of which is actually needed.)

[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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[smartzuuk]

I thought about the next one I might buy, which is still a hypothetical, but probably will happen soon.

[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...

[smartzuuk]

Have my smart in the garage for the winter. Put it on a trickle charger, but the battery is toast..... a test receipt on it shows it was checked in 2019 at MB Vancouver, so just going to buy a new one now, and then start tidying up a couple things, like the stuck alternator, adjust the waste gate, swap some tires/wheels around.... etc.... Hopefully get it running reliably by spring. Not sure what my plans are for it longer term, if anything serious. Might just move it along once I have a couple items sorted. It's got new rear wheel bearings already and a new intercooler - so some heavy lifting done while it circled around in between trades.....

[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!