The standard narrow tyres fitted to many of the fortwos causes severe understeer, you turn the wheel in a corner but the car goes straight on. You need wider front wheels and tyres for increased grip.
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Kane Harrison
Window Switch SMDs
The window switches aren't lit but they do have the contact inside waiting for some SMD LEDs so let's through a couple in each and see how it looks.
Windscreen Squirter Clean
Every car has a windscreen squirter. It's usually 1, 2 or 3 holes that washer fluid is forced through. The problem with these is 3 fold. 1 - The holes are quite small. 2 - Water contains impurities. 3 - They don't get used that often. Impurities like calcium from hard...
Windscreen Washer Fluid Test
This is a refractometer. It measures the refraction of light through different fluids. Since the refraction is known for certain fluids, it can tell you information about that fluid. They are available very cheaply on Amazon. One of the fluids this can can test is...
Windscreen Wiper Replacement
Wipers should be replaced every year but it's amazing how many people don't and also don't know how. This will take you through a few options.
Wing Mirror Replacement Glass
How to fit and where to buy replacement mirror glass
Wiper Arm Washer Jet
The first few generations of smart had a wiper mounted windscreen washer jet. Even when they removed it and went with a standard tridion mounted tri-jet, many of the parts are still in place allowing you to retrofit it.
Wiper Mechanism Repair
Do you have 1 wiper that doesn't move even though the other one works fine? It's a fairly common problem on the smart fortwo. Why Doesn't 1 Wiper Arm Move? The wiper mechanism uses 1 motor with a crank that attaches to 2 connecting arms that go off to the wipers. To...
Wiper Rear Cover Removal
Apart from having to access this area to replace the wiper motor, you have to get into it if your rear window squirter pipe comes off or snaps.
Wiper Sizes
Windscreen wipers are easily changed and should be kept in good condition throughout the life of the car.
Wires Though The Fortwo Bulkhead
There are times when you need to run wires from the inside to the outside of the car. How to do it but keep the water from coming in?
Wiring Repair Connectors
Repair Wiring Kits Repair kits are normally the plastic housing populated with terminals, each with a length of wire crimped to each terminal. The colours of the wires will mainly match up with a few exceptions. The idea with these repair kits is that the faulty...
Wishbone Bush Change
Damaged Bush (That's What She Said) A very common place of wear on the smart is the wishbone bushes. It takes a while for poor wishbone bushes to cause a knocking noise but when they eventually do, they are fucked. As they fail, your wheel geometry changes which...
Wishbone Change 450
Hit something or had a little crash and bent the wishbone?
Wishbone Change 451
If you have bent a wishbone in a crash or the bushes are failing, fit a new wishbone.
Wishbone Change Roadster
Hit something or had a little crash and bent the wishbone?
Wrapping The Wiring Loom
In modern cars, the wires in the wiring loom are very important. It's important to protect the loom.
X-Frame Removal
X-Frame? Well, it's sort of X shaped and it's a framework that holds stuff in place. The lower parts are actually called track control arms which would make the top part the track control arm mounting stretcher which is too much of a mouthful (just like myself). So...
X-Gauge
The X-Gauge is a digital gauge capable of displaying up to 7 parameters from the ECU onto a screen that fits into the standard clock pod.
X-Gauge and the Roadster
It works 100% as it does in the For2, what more can I say?