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Smarts are drive-by-wire and the throttle body can become lazy, this is how to reset it and gain back a bit of performance.

...well I hadn't, I had actually made it worse. When I tested it, it worked because of a cached response to a new script that I had accidentally replaced with an old one. Whoops. Oh well, it has been nice and peaceful. So, as before, if you have tried to contact me...

Some little rapscallion has been sending out spam emails using my email address as an alias. The result was that I was getting about 100 delivery failure emails every 30 minutes. The email address had to be suspended but unfortunately it was the same one used for the...

If your smart is using too much oil, here is one of the reasons why.

Rick asked for information I didn't have so I broke my auto button just to repair it and put it on here.

How to remove the upholstery and foam from your seats. How to swap left and right hand drive seats in the fortwo and Roadster. Steering wheel and seat side airbag removal.

Make your own custom whiteboard. Well, we have to cater for the women too 😀 I have also updated the CV joint info to show how I made a drift, check it out. I have a bunch of stuff to put on and as soon as I get the time, it will be here.

Change the CV boot on the rear driveshafts.

I had seen this one before but refrained from putting up incase supply was short lived because it's a German company selling on Ebay. Crazy G reminded me it was still there so it seems that supply might be fine so check it out. XXL Evidence underseat sub. If anyone...

It seems like there is a lot of confusion over the new road tax even though it's very simple. The confusion is because people keep talking about what will happen in 2009 to 2011. Forget about that, we'll come to that when we get there. 2008 car tax amounts. I will add...

Just started a compilation of squirter faults Thanks to Paul for some of the pictures.

451 stereo removal bodged together using pictures sent to me by Brian S and Peter.

Thanks to Bettina at Getrag for the information. Just added changing the driveshaft oil seals. It was something we forgot to take pictures of when we last did it so Ben kindly donated the pictures. I have also had a run on updates today. These are mainly updated...

Let's Rasterbate our cars.

Mutant MT-5AS underseat bass box. Looks to be well made and powerful.

Paul D contacted me to say that Lidl are selling an oil removal pump for only £4.99. Try this link although it might not work as their site is cookie based. There are a few downsides to this pump. 1- You have to actually find a Lidl store. 2- A store that actually...

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The new smart fortwo 451 rear wiper fits the older fortwo 450. Cheers Rod.

The smart site blogger tell it how he sees it. This is being talked about on a few forums, it's a good read so I thought I'd draw your attention to it incase you missed it. Some fair comments.

Updated: 31/01/08, Orange moved from good to bad. If you have your broadband with Tiscali, Bulldog or Pipex (as I do) then please read on. 620 people have been made redundant just before Christmas because Tiscali (the owners of Bulldog and Pipex) decided to outsource...