Year: 2023
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Frosty mornings
I’m not a fan of frosty mornings, icy roads and frozen locks. I find no joy what so ever in removing a layer of ice from my cars windows. Luckily the Smart Fortwo 451 cdi is much faster when it comes to warming up it’s cabin than the Smart Fortwo 450 cdi.My old 450, could…
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Flooded roads
Denmark has been hit by a massive rainfall the last 24 hours, and whole communities and their roads have been flooded. Luckily for us, our home isn’t built on a low area, so it’s only a section of our driveway that’s submerged, after a neighbours lake has flowed over. I don’t know why, but I…
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Half a parking space, NO problem!
Drove by a shop today, where half of the parking spaces on one side were closed off for construction work 🚧🚧🚧 Kindly enough, the crew had left ample space for a Smart Fortwo, so while others were competing for the full spaces on the other side, with their SUV’s and station wagons, I had a…
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Smart mini-meet in Køge
After a longer solo roadtrip, out looking at some of Denmarks history, I drove to the Danish Smart Clubs monthly mini-meet in Køge. First stop was the I drove by the World War I era sea fort “Mosede Battery”, where it was bone chillingly cold.I took a walk all the way round it, but quickly…
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New front suspension arms, new car
My Smart Fortwo has yet again, visited the Smartcars garage. This time after failing the vehicle inspection (as expected). It needed two new front suspension arms, and at the same time one of the engine mounts was in need of replacement. It felt like a dream when I got it back. The new rubber bushes…
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Visiting the vehicle inspection centre
I’ve been at the vehicle inspection centre today, or “Synshal” as they are called in Denmark It’s always “interesting” to get a new car inspected, without fully knowing it’s history. I didn’t expect it to pass, because the last few weeks, I have had a suspicion, that one of the joints on the sway-bar needed…
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Unresponsive throttle and low RPM
As mentioned at my last trip to the smartcars garage, it still had a few issues with cold starts. I was hoping that it would get better, and that it only was coke deposits, that needed to be burnt clean, after they fixed the other issue I had with it regularly going into limp mode.…
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Vehicle inspection in Denmark
A lot of countries have a system, where cars regularly have to attend some kind of vehicle inspection, in order to stay on the roads. Denmark is no different. Here we receive a notice about two months before we need to have our car inspected. Cars have their pollution levels checked, tested their brakes, the…
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A perfect day for a road trip!
I must admit that I usually don’t remove the side rails on my trips to and from work, but this afternoon they just had to come off. It was 23 degrees, the sky was absolutely cloudless, and there was no wind, so I trundled slowly home, soaking in the blue sky. As noted above, I…
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Visiting the Smartcars workshop
I’ve previously bought spare parts for my old Smart Fortwo coupe, from the garage smartcars.dk, but this is the first time I have used their garage. Actually I tried to contact them, back when I had issues with my Lambda sensor, but I couldn’t get hold of them by email. This time I had better…