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Change the front brake pads on your 451. Trackback: Fit front brake pads to your 450 or Roadster.

Fit a Brabus front splitter to your 451. Trackback: Fit a Brabus front splitter to your 450.

Buy some new rear alloys and fit them to the front. Only recommended on the new smart fortwo, not the old one.

Toby asked for a bit of information, it was something I had already done and completed. Because there was no set order for these mods, I thought I might as well add it. Remove the 451 SE Drive cover.

Remove and replace the cabin air filter.

Non turbo 451 TIK pipe removal. Before anyone says, I know it isn't strictly a TIK pipe as the T stands for turbo. It is such a common word these days and dispite trying to think of a better name for it, I couldn't. Therefore, in the non turbo 451, the T stands for...

The boot switch was an early common problem, here is how to change it plus an idea on fixing it.

Boot storage flap faults and fixes.

Remove the interior boot storage flap.

Raise the mirror to reduce the blind spot behind it.

Personalise your 451 headlights Remember, if you have a 450 and want to update the headlights then take a look at this page that was added almost exactly a year ago. Personalise your 450 headlights

Fit a boot light in the 451 so you can actually see stuff in the dark.

Remove the interior roof panel trims. 40 new pages and updates have appeared in the last 3 weeks just for the 451. 37 over all in the past 14 days. There is plenty more where that came from. I'm still working from the stuff I photographed and wrote up weeks ago.

Boot panel removal.

How to remove the sun blind and look after it. If you are in Kent and need smart work done, a friend has just opened his new smart garage. SmartDoctor Check them out and give them a call when you need anything doing.

Fit the 451 upgrade horn.

Change the 451 air filter.

Changing the transmission fluid has been updated to include the 451. Fit foglights to the 451. Modding the 451 foglights. Change the foglight bulbs.

Change the high level brake light bulb in the 451. Change the interior light on a 451. Lower and remove the SAM unit. Using tinting spray.

How to easily change the Roadster lower sparkplugs. Also, I will add this about catch tanks. Fit a catch tanks. Plus to keep the 451 stuff running, I would like to point out that the Brabus handbrake cover fitting guide for the 450 is exactly the same as the 451...