Tag: Smart Fortwo 451
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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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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…
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Little Turd
Many car owners name Their vehicles, some more creatively than others, like this small brown Smart fortwo, that has been named “Lille Lort”, Danish for “Little Turd”. When I came upon it, this afternoon, I was reminded of the scene from the movie “Romancing the stone”, that stars a Ford Bronco, affectionately named “Little Mule”…
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Visteon Radio 9
The standard Radio on many Smart Fortwo’s, is the Smart Radio 9, made for Smart, by Visteon. The “Radio 9” came in two different versions. A VP6 model that only plays audio CD’s and a VP7 model that can play MP3’s from CD.The change from VP6 to VP7 happened together with the model year 2007-2008.…