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Even more stuff, it must be summer.
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.
Some stuff.
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...
I need some standard Roadster injectors.
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.
Throttle Body Reset
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.
Do you know I said I had fixed the contact page…
...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...
If you tried to contact me in the last 24 hours, I did not get it.
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...
Excessive oil consumption?
If your smart is using too much oil, here is one of the reasons why.
Repair the auto button
Rick asked for information I didn't have so I broke my auto button just to repair it and put it on here.
Seat and airbag stuff
How to remove the upholstery and foam from your seats. How to swap left and right hand drive seats in the fortwo and Roadster. Steering wheel and seat side airbag removal.
Another silly project to pass the time
Make your own custom whiteboard. Well, we have to cater for the women too 😀 I have also updated the CV joint info to show how I made a drift, check it out. I have a bunch of stuff to put on and as soon as I get the time, it will be here.
Split CV joint boot?
Change the CV boot on the rear driveshafts.
Another underseat bass box added to the list.
I had seen this one before but refrained from putting up incase supply was short lived because it's a German company selling on Ebay. Crazy G reminded me it was still there so it seems that supply might be fine so check it out. XXL Evidence underseat sub. If anyone...
New budget, new tax.
It seems like there is a lot of confusion over the new road tax even though it's very simple. The confusion is because people keep talking about what will happen in 2009 to 2011. Forget about that, we'll come to that when we get there. 2008 car tax amounts. I will add...
Window squirter faults
Just started a compilation of squirter faults Thanks to Paul for some of the pictures.
451 Stereo Removal
451 stereo removal bodged together using pictures sent to me by Brian S and Peter.
451 Turbo and Brabus gear ratios added + more
Thanks to Bettina at Getrag for the information. Just added changing the driveshaft oil seals. It was something we forgot to take pictures of when we last did it so Ben kindly donated the pictures. I have also had a run on updates today. These are mainly updated...
Something fun to play with.
Let's Rasterbate our cars.
Underseat bass enclosure added.
Mutant MT-5AS underseat bass box. Looks to be well made and powerful.
Cheap oil removal pump.
Paul D contacted me to say that Lidl are selling an oil removal pump for only £4.99. Try this link although it might not work as their site is cookie based. There are a few downsides to this pump. 1- You have to actually find a Lidl store. 2- A store that actually...