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Re: Ultraseal (Puncturesafe).. good or bad.. your views and advice please [by road_snail]

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:24:47 +0100

Smart Roadster:: Ultraseal (Puncturesafe).. good or bad.. your views and advice please
Thanks madDan. I am concerned about the balancing issue and my gut feeling says stay away from this product.

I hear what you are saying about potentially getting a refund. However I can see other potential costs with regard to getting tyres removed, cleaning out the gunk and then re-fitting.

I guess I was hoping somebody, (or even better lots of somebodies), would pop up and say that it was the best thing they ever invested in.

Re: Advise on getting a roadster [by SPinonit]

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:23:01 +0100

Smart Roadster:: Advise on getting a roadster
Quote:

SRGVORTEX wrote:You know what they say, if it's too good to be true.......

Reported to ebay...

Re: Engine Flush - Good or Bad? [by Jace]

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:15:26 +0100

Smart Roadster:: Engine Flush - Good or Bad?
Funny one this, it used to be standard a few years ago on a service to have an engine flush, both smart/MB and indi's used to do this. Also many people claim that you can extract more crud from the engine by using the Pela vacuum pump than with a sump plug.

Saying that, MB and many indi's don't flush the engine on oil change any more, must be a reason, either it does cause problems or it's been dropped due to cost overheads.

JC

Re: Baptism of Fire [by kickinside]

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:59:24 +0100

New Members - Introductions:: Baptism of Fire
Well now you know the worst case scenario, they are fun in the snow but you have to be awake!

Glad your back and enjoying the car...Welcome to the wonderful world of the roadster smile

Re: Member Pictures [by Nik_nak]

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:51 +0100

Pictures:: Member Pictures
Very clean makes me feel like going outside and cleaning mine.. O I can't it's covered in snow damm.

Re: New battery time... [by 137699]

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:17:57 +0100

Smart Roadster:: New battery time...
Quote:

BrillBill wrote:
I've had trouble with the battery too. Had to get a jump start from work, so presumably once that's happened (assuming you didn't leave the lights on I guess) the best thig is to replace?

Errr yes.

Re: The best alternative to remapping the Brabus ( oh and its free) [by SuperMono]

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:19:27 +0100

Modification:: The best alternative to remapping the Brabus ( oh and its free)
I followed this thread as it was posted and the basic points to me are all logical.
Modifying the opening characteristic of the wastegate (increasing the overall spring rate and/or preload) should provide an increase in 'average' boost and so overall an increase in 'average' torque.
As Big has mentioned this is not a replacement for a professional remap, but as a relatively low risk approach to realising a useful gain it has some value.

Having some time to kill today I armed myself with a few springs and took a softly-softly approach to see what happens.
FYI my Roadster (80ps, not Brabus) is remapped and runs a maximum 1.5bar.
Using a complete absence of science I 'felt' the standard actuator pressure and then stretched a few springs to various lengths to see what they 'felt' like.
I am onto my third spring and have driven around trying to trick into overboost, but so far all seems safe.
Seems to be a useful modification, no increase in maximum boost but a higher 'average' boost level.
To my mind that means more torque more often (area under the curve), nice seat of the pants feel as well.
Given it was about 35deg ambient today I didn't want to go pushing my luck so will leave it like this for a while, until I drive in more conditions and hopefully when the temperature is a little lower, than maybe try increasing the spring preload and closing up the boost a little more.

Worst thing that can happen is that something goes 'bang', in which case I won't do it again
If it all works well I'll see about measuring the spring rate and preload applied for the reference of others.

Re: Roadster disaster. [by electric58]

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:41:34 +0100

Chat about stuff:: Roadster disaster.
I'd tried it again just before I saw that reply.

Re: I must sell my Finale Coupe [by themoon66]

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:01:05 +0100

Smart Roadster:: I must sell my Finale Coupe
You will be so very missed Richard. Your lovely (fast) meets through the Wolds were some of the best I've been on. I hope your circumstances change very soon so you can keep your car.

Gutted for you mate

Re: Does anyone want to guess what this is? [by Exsicco]

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:15:55 +0100

Modification:: Does anyone want to guess what this is?
A small update. Had to make some changes to the manifold and modify the turbo but now it starts to fit.

Soon I will know if the new engine works