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450 Fortwo 600cc
450 Fortwo 700cc
453 Fortwo and forfour
451 Fortwo 999cc
452 Roadster 700cc
454 Forfour
450 Fortwo 700cc
453 Fortwo and forfour
451 Fortwo 999cc
452 Roadster 700cc
454 Forfour
Did you buy your smart secondhand and think the panels have been changed?
Want to know what colour the original panels were?
Or did the dealer tell you your smart was being especially made for you in Hambach,
all fresh and shiny, and you don't believe him? Like me, you may think that in actual fact
your smart was sitting in a field for a while and they just swapped the panels over.
There is a way to find out what colour the original panels were! Oh good, I hear you cry!
How?
Somewhere on the car is a sticker. It's usually either under the carpet in the boot or on the door shut.
On the left hand side, you should see a sticker with your engine's VIN,
a bar code and a picture of a headlight on it. You should be able to
see a six-digit code beneath where it says 'Made in France'.
For example:
This code tells you the original Tridion colour and panel colour (in that order).
The first three digits of the code tell you the tridion colour.
smart's codes are as follows:
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Yes, some of the codes are duplicated - probably just smart being unimaginative.
As you can see from the pictures of our smart car codes above,
one of us has a black tridion, and one has a silver tridion.
The second three digits of the code tell you the panel colour.
the table below shows all known colours:
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As you can see from the above pictures, both our cars originally had jack black panels,
meaning that the numeric blue panels now on one of the cars are not the originals. Which
in a way could be good as the panels therefore haven't been sitting in a field for months.
Damn dealer making people feel special thinking they are getting a brand new
car and all they're getting is a brand new set of panels, (grumble grumble....)
So, there you go.
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Anyone know what happened to EAG, EAM??
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It would also be good if you'd let me know the codes for any of those
colours listed above (particularly the forfour ones) that I haven't got
codes for. Would be much appreciated.
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If you have any of the new special edition colours like pink or British
racing green I would be interested to see if you have specific codes for
them or if they are just re-shelled old smarts, re-panelled to sell.
Below are tables for the colours of the various smart cars going by year
Some of these may not be correct, but there isn't a lot of definitive information on this.
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*Smart used C21L on very early Roadsters and then switched to C55L.
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*L0E2 *CD3L |
| Dark Gray Blue Metallic | ECH | CD6L |
| Chocolate Brown Metallic (Cocoa special edition) | EBA | |
| Flame Yellow Pearl |
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| Electric Green Pearl | ECZ | |
| Cool Silver Metallic | EN2 | |
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| Standard Alloy Wheels | CA4L | |
| Black Alloy Wheels | 7X35 | |
| Grey Alloy Wheels | CC8L | |
| EV Green Wheels | CD0L | |
| White Alloy Wheels | C45B | |
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| Steel Wheels | C32L | |
*EAI used for the Urbanstyle 451 is the same code as Glance Grey Metallic on the Roadster.
Online comparisons are inconclusive as to if these are actually the same colour.
*EAA used for Active Blue Metallic on the 451 is the same code as Numeric Blue on the 450. (Thanks Clive M).
Rob of S2smarts, Kat H, Blackdog, Shadow, Steve S,
SmartCarOfAmerica.com, Matthew D, Christian P, Benoit, Clive M.
I take no responsibility for the accuracy of this info as it is cobbled together from various sources.
