Back in 2014, Dave from Brakes International was good enough to send over a calliper rebuild kit. I was supposed to do a fitting guide and send people over to his shop to buy the kits. Unfortunately I'm useless at remembering to do stuff like that. The kit got stored...
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Roadster Brake Disc Fitting
The standard Brakes are OK for a standard smart but when you start getting serious with the mods you have to get serious with the brakes.
Roadster Brake Light Switch
How to find and replace the brake light switch in a Roadster
Roadster Brake Light Wiring
Key:
E = Earth
C4/8 = Connection plug 4, pin 8
Fuse* or F* = Direct connection fuse number
Black Yellow = Wire colour
Modules are labeled in the picture.
Roadster Brake Master Cylinder
The brake master cylinder is what connects the movement of the brake pedal to the brakes of your car. It has the brake fluid reservoir sitting on top and it takes fluid from it and pushes it through 2 pipes into the ABS pump. From there, the pump splits the fluid into...
Roadster Brake Pad Change
Special Tools There will always be someone on a forum somewhere claiming that you need a pentagon (5 sided) socket when doing the pads or changing the discs. They are talking out of their bum. The pentagon bolt is the hinge pin that you rotate the calliper piston...
Roadster Brake Shoe Change
The Parts The front wheels have discs, pads and calipers. The rear wheels have drums, shoes and pistons. Here we have the piston at the top, the shoes down either side and a load of springs. The Special Tool I have just rewritten this page and taken new photos. This...
Roadster Brake Vacuum Booster
What Is The Brake Vacuum Booster? I have bad news for you. You aren't as strong as you think you are. You simply can't create enough power in 1 leg to stop a car. You would need a brake pedal 1 metre long for you to be able to apply the same amount of braking force...
Roadster Button Triangle Pin Out
Without Heated Seats - 1 or 2 buttons Pin Number Wire Colour Use 1 Red/Green Power 2 Violet/Blue Hazard Lights 3 Blue or Blue/Yellow Central Locking 4 Brown/White Lighting 5 Green AC 6 Grey AC 7 Black/Red (coupe) Rear Window Heater 8 Brown Earth With Heated...
Roadster Buying Guide
So, You’re Thinking Of Buying A Smart Roadster? There is really nothing affordable that drives and handles like a smart Roadster. They are fun, practical (for most), good on fuel and great on sunny days with the top down. On the flip side, they aren't the most...
Roadster Cabin Fan Removal
The cabin heater fan can be seen by posting yourself into the right side footwell and looking up. It connects into the side of the central cabin heater box. To give yourself more room, lower the SAM unit, move the brake light switch and shift the wiper bucket out of...
Roadster Cabin/Pollen Filter
How to fit or change the pollen cabin air filter.
Roadster Cam Shaft Removal
To get to the camshaft you have to remove the air inlet manifold and rocker cover. Take an E10 socket and remove all 8 of the bolts that hold the bearing caps to the engine head (12Nm on refitting). The bearing caps are the brackets that hold the camshaft to the...
Roadster CAN Bus PIDs
Credit All credit for this information goes to Jack Rogers. This is all well over my level of understanding. Please don't message me asking questions about it as I have no idea. Notes The tables below are laid out in binary. Each CAN message consists of up to 8...
Roadster CAN Bus Wiring
Roadster CAN Bus Wiring This shows the wiring colours, pin positions and connections between electronic modules. The CAN Bus (Controller Area Network) is a network of 2 wires that connects all of the control modules. They use this network to communicate all of the...
Roadster Carpet Removal
Roadsters leak and the carpet holds all the water, eventually it starts to smell
Roadster Central Locking Issues
Roadster Immediately Unlocks After Locking Back around 2009 I bought a fucked Roadster. The low mileage car was OK but it wouldn't start and wouldn't stay locked. The non starting was met with a CAN bus fault so I decided to check the continuity of every single wire...
Roadster Chain Tensioner Removal
The timing chain runs from the crankshaft up to the camshaft. For every 2 turns of the crankshaft, the camshaft will turn once. This relation between the 2 sprockets must stay the same at all times to keep the combustion cycle working and to stop the valves from...
Roadster Charcoal Canister
Removal Of The Canister Look at the rear offside of the car. Jack the car up, remove the wheel and remove the arch liner to reveal the charcoal canister in the front of the arch. The inlet and outlet pipe run down and into the underneath of the canister. Cut the zip...
Roadster Child Seat Frame
Baby Seat Fixing Did you decide to bring a noisy, life sucking, pooing and spewing, useless meat bag into this world? Did you think that keeping your smart was a good idea? If you answered yes to both of these, there is something mentally wrong with you. However,...