Hello Everyone,
I purchased a 2017 Smart Fortwo from carvana (I’ve wanted one for a long time and no dealers close). It was advertised as a panoramic roof, and the roof is a hardtop fabric. It’s not detachable, or convertible.
i love driving the car, I love everything about it. Low mileage (1500), handles well, great on the highway. I am just unsure about this top. How is it maintained? Could it be replaced with a fiberglass piece? I can always get a different car.
The non-cabrio (panoramic) Smart roofs all have had issues.
The 450 (1998-2007) had a glass roof, not layered like a windshield.
Debris would hit the front curvature at highway speed and the roof would explode...
The 2006 G&K 450 I have has a plastic? covering on the front curvature, probably added to be imported to the USA.
Well that front plastic covering has scratches in it now, but I have an intact roof lol.
The 451 (2008-2015) panoramic roof changed to Lexan.
No more exploding glass roofs but over time it would craze, and the crazing is internal.
The time period is somewhere between 5-10 years.
The 453 (2016-2019) panoramic roof is also Lexan.
I'm hoping they learned something on the 451 roofs and used a different Lexan?...
Not enough time yet on the 2016s for owners to report yet another panoramic roof problem.
The hardtop fabric you have may be a blessing in disguise when compared to the lexan 453 roof - again, only time will tell.
I have that roof on my 2016 453 Passion coupe. The panoramic roof was on my 2013 Passion. I may be a bit different than some others but I prefer the covered roof. I found that panoramic roof let bright sunshine and Summer heat in when the shade was opened and the shade offered little insulation value Summer or Winter. No special care needed for the covered roof.
Hi I have a 2010 smart fortwo passion cabriolet and it is randomly droping from normal driving to a snales pace or wint move at all and the car stopped again when I went around a corner and then I put the hazards on and then turned it off for 20 seconds - 30 seconds and turned it on again and it...
Hello there,
Just bought a used 2016 Smart Fortwo Prime (0.9L turbo, dual-clutch auto and with JBL subwoofer) and
looking forward to driving it more once the weather gets better (hard to go out with 12" inch of snow on the ground).
In the mean time, I am reading up more on this new car of mine...
I have a 2009 smart fortwo coupe that will not start. when I turn the key on there is no lights come on on the cluster, tern signals work, radio works, lights woek, wipers work,dome light works, but nothing comes on on the instrument cluster and I can not move the shift lever out of park. Also...
My 2013 smart passion only has 37k miles
Was driving just fine, then it wouldn't go into reverse or drive, only park and neutral
Does anyone know what the problem might be
I purchased an aftermarket socket at AutoZone.
The wires were Red and Black.
The wires on the Smart car are yellow and brown. Which is positive?
I'll be fixing this shortly, so if I don't get an answer before then, I'll just figure it out with an amp meter.
Cheers!
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