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Towing a Smart Fortwo
Before you can begin towing a Smart Fortwo, you have to find the towing eye. It’s hidden very well under the passenger footwell carpet. Fold the carpet back against the passenger seat, and the tow eye will reveal itself. Now you have to pry out one of the plastic plugs in the front (or rear…
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The Smart Fortwo gets itself a new battery
It’s time for a new battery in the Smart Fortwo. However I must admit that I’m impressed, as I find out that the battery is the original one, it left the factory with. The battery compartment is hidden away in the floor under the passengers footwell. To change the battery you must lift the carpet…
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The Smart Fortwo gets a new Mass Air Flow Sensor
I drove by the Smartcars garage after work today, to have the new Mass Air Flow Sensor installed in my Fortwo. This was ordered at my last visit, but since they couldn’t get one the same day, they were kind to borrow one from one of the other cars he had, so I could drive…
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Bad Mass Air Flow Sensor in the Smart Fortwo
My Smart has been coughing a bit lately. Hasn’t wanted to start, and has gone in emergency mode a few times. The issue was found in the mass air flow sensor. It also got a Oil and filter change, as there was less than 1000km left before service was required. I had a feeling that…
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A weird time of year morning frost and the roof down in the afternoon
It’s great that the afternoons are warm enough to get the top down, on my way home from work, but I’m soooo tired of scraping ice off the windows. At least the Smart Fortwo has so short a nose, that you can scrape the whole front window, without touching the the front bumper. Spring is…
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Test equipment for Smart cars
With the right test equipment, you can hook up to your Smarts computer. Here you can see live information, read/erase error codes and in some instances program and change the cars parameters. Simple OBDII testers With these you can read error messages, sometimes erase them, and see live data like RPM and turbo boost levels.…
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Another company Smart Fortwo
I do enjoy seeing Smart Fortwo’s being used by companies, and think they are brilliant for advertising. This one is a well kept 2014 MHD model, that was parked at the local station.
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Biltema’s Lithium Grease – 400 ml spray
I have a Biltema’s Lithium Grease Art. 36-4578 spray can in my garage. It’s my go to product, for a series of tasks, and I so far it’s the best product I’ve found for lubricating the cabriolets side rails, which is an essential task on a Fortwo cabrio.
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Lubricating the Fortwo cabriolets side rails – soft top maintenance
I noticed that it was time to lubricate the cabriolets side rails, when I raised the soft top yesterday. It’s time for maintenance. This is a well known issue on the Smart Fortwo Cabriolet. The soft top frame slide in the removable side rails, on plastic blocks. If the plastic blocks had a Teflon lining,…
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At last the top Can come down – It’s cabriolet time!
Spring is getting nearer, heard in Scandinavia. Had to de-ice the Smart Fortwo’s windows before I could drive to work. However when I left work, the temperature had risen to 15 degrees centigrade, and the cabriolets drop top came down immediately, and I ended up on a long detour on my way home, down a…
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