The foglights on the fortwo 451 are much better than the old fortwo foglights.
Kane Harrison
Fitting A Better Horn
The Horn The standard horn fitted to all smarts isn't loud enough. It doesn't draw attention like it should. In fact, it's almost laughable and many people say it's like a scooter horn. There's a reason for that. That's exactly what it is. A single low wattage disc...
Fitting Braided Brake Hoses
Where Can I Buy These Hoses? They are for sale on the SmartMods website. What Colours Can I Get? Clear smoked, Red, Green, Clear silver, Orange, Clear Blue, White, Pink, Yellow, Blue and Purple (although SmartMods don't always stock all of the colours). What Cars Do...
Fitting Brake Hoses
Personally I never thought the smart brakes were too bad but I have heard many complaints about their effectiveness. Changing the discs and pads go part way to sorting this problem out, changing the hoses can increase the feel and stopping power of the brakes.
Fitting Bullbars
So many people rant on about fitting these to the smart and how dangerous they are to pedestrians so I had to get some.
Fitting Fog Lights 450
Guide to fitting Fog lights.
Fitting HIDs
H.I.D. headlights can be found on expensive cars and 4x4s from most manufacturers, now there are kits that allow you to add HID lights to your car.
Fitting New Reluctors
How to fit reluctor ABS rings both ways
Fixing A Windscreen Chip
The worst thing about winter is that the roads get gritted. You are behind a gritting lorry and you can hear your car getting dashed with rock salt. The next problem is the grit and salt being kicked up and damaging your windscreen. If you leave a crack like this, it...
Fixing The Rear Panel Clips
Another great one from Shadow. I don't know about you but personally I find the rear panel clips a bit weak and snap all to easily. Yeah they are cheap but why not fix the ones you have for good.
Flashing Yellow Triangle
Sometimes you get the traction control light flashing on the speedo, what does that mean?
Foam Filter Cleaning
Instead of fitting a new paper filter, many people choose to fit a reusable foam filter. Here is how to correctly clean it.
Fog Lights Usage
Fog lights, for use when there is heavy fog. Not for driving around trying to look cool. The clue is in the title.
Footwell Lights
By now you have probably changed your interior lights for LEDs, wouldn't it be nice to be able to spur off of the front lower interior light to run foot well lights that come on when the doors open.
Force Open Roadster Bonnet
How to open the bonnet of your Roadster without using the release handle in the glove box.
Force Open The 451 Hatch
If the boot/trunk solenoid or switch fails you will have to open the boot to change them, however, you need them to work to open the boot.
Force Open The 453 Hatch
So, you have no power or the electric boot opener doesn't work. No fear. Opening it is easy. This page covers both the upper and lower hatch on the fortwo. Upper Glass Hatch Opening Easy peasy lemon squeezy. (that's not going to translate very well). Pull the...
Forfour 454 Fuses And Relays
Fuses No Amp. Colour 1 Interior light 10 A Red 2 ETACS 10 A Red 3 Rear and parking light left 7.5 A Brown 4 Rear and parking light right 7.5 A Brown 5 Windscreen wipers 20 A Yellow 6 empty empty empty 7 Mirror heaters 7.5 A Brown 8 High beam right 10 A Red 9 High beam...
Forfour 454 Key Fob Battery
How Do I Know It Needs Changing? When the battery gets low, the indicators will flash nine times in quick sucession when you lock or unlock the car. From this point onward, you have approximately 100 uses of the remote central locking fob before it won't open the car...
Forfour Auto Gear Fault
No Gears The fault affects the semi auto version of the 454 Forfour This fault is becoming more and more wide spread. Not being a Forfour owner myself, I had no dealings with it but the fault is very similar to a fault on the 451. Ozzy site reader Chris had issues...