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Fit the smart OEM sat nav unit and dock. Fit the 451 luggage cover blind.

Make your own Brabus style 451 headlights for £5.

Remove the 451 door speakers. Remove the crashbar. Retrofit the 451 glasses holder. 451 lambda sensors.

451 Jacking added to the jacking section. 451 SMD LED change almost totally complete. 451 speedo removal. 451 speedo disassembly. 451 pod swap around.

Due to an undisclosed agreement with smart, I agreed to hold back on the 451 mods and start releasing them in June (smart's 10th birthday month). So to celebrate smart's 10th birthday, here is the beginning of all the 451 info I have done in the last 3 months. 451...

Some of you may have seen the review of the Forge intercooler pipe I made a while ago (see the reviews menu if you haven't). Well now they are ready to ship and retail at only £79.90 which is an absolute steal for what they are and the construction. Follow the link to...

Change the SMD LEDs in your new Fortwo. Make the blank buttons on the button bank actually work.

Change the forfour dials. The forfour LED changing page has been added to to include most parts.

Change the LEDs in the radio and the button bank. More forfour LED changing guides will be added soon.

Change all the bulbs in the 451 headlights. How to change your Roadster and Fortwo 451 headlights to drive abroad. I am doing my best to cover the new smart. So far this has involved doing what I can to display smarts in the showrooms (until I get told to stop). I...

Unless you are an avid reader of SmartManiacs you won't know the story. I am so shocked, I had to put it here. I recently complained to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) about the pricing structure of the personalised number plates being sold by the DVLA. The old style...

A supplier has been found and we are fully stocked on parts. Now we promise even faster delivery. When you require an MP3 lead for your smart car (not forfour sorry), let us know and we will sort you out with one in a jiffy* Remember, even hough the cost of postage...

Change the number plate lights on a 451. Fit some headlight eyebrows. Fit front and rear Brabus side spats. Fit a Brabus front splitter. Zee unit insert now opened to show the circuit board and position of the internal central locking relays.

Check the reviews drop down menu and read up on the new Forge silicone intercooler pipes that will be available soon. Remove, disassemble and clean up your throttle body. Wastegate arm come off? need a new clip and don't know what it is? This should help you fix...

Do any of you have a set of 3 yellow Roadster injectors for sale? These are from the Standard 80bhp Roadster. If you do, can you please contact me through the contacts page. Cheers.

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.