"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
03/24/2018 at 19:22 • Filed to: Smart
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"Mercedes Streeter" (smart)
03/24/2018 at 19:22 • Filed to: Smart | 8
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So, I discovered a couple issues with the car and a couple quirks.
1. The odometer is the exact opposite of Chelsea’s (my 450 coupe). Whereas Chelsea counts in miles but measures outside temperature in Celsius, Laura counts in Kilometers and measures outside temperature in Fahrenheit.
2. The headlight switch is borked. The parking lamp selection doesn’t work, and when you choose low beams, only the parking lights come on. The only way to get the low beams to work is to activate the high beams, which will only turn on the low beams. Oh my. Thankfully the replacement part is cheap.
3. The convertible roof only opens to position 1 (open roof, full convertible is position 2). Looks like the tracks need lubing and that ought to fix that. The car has clearly been sitting for a long time and there is dust and dirt in places it should not be in. The car even threw a CEL because the petrol that was in it must have been older than time itself.
4. To make gray market smarts compliant, importers have to add bulky padding to the entire interior roofline. I hate the padding and have always wanted to rip it out of Chelsea. However I’ve been afraid that they were mounted in a way that couldn’t be reversed. As Laura reveals...Nope! Just adhesive!
I’ll also need to replace this clock. A solder is bad in it and it doesn’t work anymore.
Overall, her restoration should be pretty easy and cheap. Unlike Chelsea, I don’t need to chase down weird electrical gremlins.
Ash78, voting early and often
> Mercedes Streeter
03/24/2018 at 19:28 |
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Ahh, the benefits/drawbacks of having two slightly different versions of the same car!
That’s been my life for 16 years, but with B5 Passats.
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> Mercedes Streeter
03/24/2018 at 19:29 |
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Is the display units thing not settable in a menu somewhere?
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Mercedes Streeter
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
03/24/2018 at 19:34 |
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The customizations can be set using a bootleg MB Star machine. Most likely one of the two POs for this car decided that they didn’t care too much about having the car count in miles.
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> Mercedes Streeter
03/24/2018 at 19:40 |
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But they *did* care about Fahrenheit enough to get that changed. Weird - why not just do both. Only sensible explanation I can think of is bought in Germany by a US serviceman then brought back.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Mercedes Streeter
03/25/2018 at 06:50 |
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safe travels!