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The only independent dedicated smart car e-magazine winter 2006 | issue 14| price: FREE on-line In this issue Austria Craig’s Roadster smart news L2B Rally Canada ER your local meets from the readers Doc from OZ five featured cars vinyl tinting designs X-Gauge review TomTom 510 install BRABUS pedal install window lifter install smint’s roadster diary working smarts plus lots more... ISSN 1744-9448 G3 2007 fortwo Romsey’s demo roadster with: Performance Clutch Smartarse Design - 3000 sft Branch in Watford, Charge cooler s Viper induction 2000 ft Branch in Romsey, Custom Map for all your smart performance parts and services Lambo doors and ICE Custom Remapping £350 inc VAT NOW Available, Custom remaps by appointment. Plus a wide range of remaps available by RedDot for : Mk1-6 fortwo, Mk7 fortwo, Brabus fortwo, roadster 61, 80 bhp and BRABUS 101 Our remapping service includes diagnostic check, performance consultation and remap, all backed by our Smartarse Design warranty. Please call for details. Win-Star & Bosch smart diagnostic computer systems New Products and Services... smartimes reader offer Armourfend Clutch adjustment £19.99 inc VAT 3M Scotchgard film (Normally £29.99) Offer ends 23rd protection for glass roof Dec 06. Call to book. normally £99.99 inc VAT fitted. Helps stop risk of Smart Car Servicing breackage from stone fortwo - A £125 B £195 inc VAT impact. Call to book. Body panel protection roadster - A £149 B £275 inc VAT also available. roadster coupe - A £149 B £295 inc VAT BRABUS roadster - A £149 B £349 inc VAT £89.99 inc VAT BRABUS roadster coupe- A £149 B £369 inc VAT fitted Offer Forfour - A £125 B £220 inc VAT Stealth Exhaust Accessories fortwo and roadster, stainless steel, full Full range of interior & exterior products in stock Janspeed lifetime warranty, great sound Smartarse Design Custom Service and improved power/ - Full leather interiors performance. NOW in stock £429 - Classic and custom paint work inc VAT - Body work styling - Personal custom performance enhancements Coffee and rest area Watford Dyno Meet in association with smartimes magazine January 2007, check web sites for further details. No obligation free friendly advice Rolling road £25 per run. Free BBQ and hot drinks. Call us on 01794 367878 www.smartarse-design.com Millennium Many of our products are available ship ourwe products to order on-line at internationally www.smartpartchick.co.uk Smartarse Design Romsey Unit 6, Wynford Farm Ind Park, Belbins, Romsey, Hants, SO51 0PW Tel 01794 367878 email: [email protected] Smartarse Design Watford Unit 2a Blueprint Commercial Centre, Imperial Way, Watford WD24 4JD Tel: 01923 288199 email: [email protected] 2 smartimes magazine in this issue Page contributors Winter 06 edition 4 James Gillam, Kane, Lief Hanson, Bahaeddin Nakiboglu, Richard Neale, Club meetings and events 5 Tom Crawford & Julie Saltmarsh, Philip smart news Egan, Colin (DOC) Robinson, Ian from the readers 6 - 8 Dolphin, Steve Crosbie, Dazza, smart smart news 9 - 11 media, Scott Fen - Impact press & PR ltd. smart G3 2007 fortwo 11 - 21 smart meets and articles Special thanks to: OZ - Introducing the Doc 22 Roger Broome, James Gillam & Meara smart Canadian EH? 23 Paterson, Sheena Hamilton. Bolderwood smart meet 24 - 25 publisher/editor Bexhill car show 26 - 27 Stephen Goddard smart cars invade Woodward Detroit USA 28 South West smarties 29 administration Have smart will travel 30 - 31 Karen Goddard smartimes at smart times Austria 31 - 34 Lief’s collectors edition roadster 35 smartimes The alternative Austria tour 36 9 Downlands Road FQ101 do the London to Brighton Rally 37 Winchester SO22 4ET London to Brighton Rally - start 38 tel: 01962 626585 London to Brighton Rally - finish 39 fax: 01962 626593 Feature cars CraigAxe roadster 40 - 41 Office hours: 4:30 pm to 7:30pm smart with wings update 42 - 43 www.smartimes.co.uk “Alien” smart attack 44 email: [email protected] Mac in smart - Turkey 46 - 47 Projects and technical SMINT’s roadster diary 48 - 49 copyright smartboy and his smartcar - trail and error 50 smartimes magazine 2006, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part is forbidden more speakers - project car 51 without the express permission of the adjusting suspension - project car 52 publishers. Armourfend - protection for your smart 53 window tints? vinyl finishing - project car 54 The X-Gauge - up close 55 - 56 TomTom 510 install - project car 58 BRABUS pedal covers install 59 C7 update 60 MDC window lifter install 61 - 63 Working smarts Supreme Windows 64 smartimes back issues Back issue content and smartimes information 65 - 66 Cover Car: smart G3 2007 fortwo featured on page 11-21 smartimes magazine 3 to our readers Welcome to our winter 2006 issue of smartimes e-magazine, late, but we think it was worth the wait. thesmartclub.co.uk In this issue we are pleased to include details from the press launch of the new G3 2007 fortwo model. This long awaited release Be part of the world’s largest independent club for all things marks a new era in smart, or should I say Mercedes? The advanced smart. test drive reports in the UK motoring press have been positive (based on the 800cc Diesel engine). As the wider motoring press Advice, information, third party services and access to our start their reviews we at smartimes hope to arrange a test drive of Online Shop for club merchandise including ‘smartimes’ our own and report back in our next issue. In the mean time, check magazine . out the details and feast your eyes on what is the new boy on the block. Membership of thesmartclub, including access to information on Local, National and International Events plus full public 2007 looks to be a crucial year for smart. The success of the access to our MessageBoard is, of course, free new model fortwo I believe is going to be down to dealer quality, service and acceptance of the owner demographic. The model PLUS you can gain discounts on parts, services and itself looks well specified, with a full range of drive trains that accessories from over 20 official UK smart centres and offer efficient and cost effective motoring values to the discerning other prestigious third party companies by using our unique motorist. I am sure the ascetics will not be to some peoples tastes ‘Privilege Card’ for only £10.00 p.a. but, that can be said of a lot of successful cars on the roads today. Join the fastest growing smart car club* Given the new fortwo model will also be available in the US market. Sales figures have the potential to make smart viable. Time will tell. now at Let’s hope DaimlerChrysler give it the time it needs. Our project car will sport a new look for 2007. We have been www. working with our advertisers to bring new ideas and developments thesmartclub. to our readers over the last four years. By selling off replaced parts and a set of panels, we have managed to negotiate a new co.uk set of painted panels. This new look will be first shown at the next smartimes ‘dyno’ rolling road meeting planned for January 2007. More detail of the ‘dyno’ meet will be posted on our web site during December 06. As regular readers we hope will acknowledge, smartimes has endeavoured to bring together the best of the smart community news and events over the last four years of publication. As smartimes enters its fifth year, we are finding it increasing difficult to cover our administrative and server costs. Our projects are funded privately and are not included in these expenses. Reviewing our options and having decided that to enable smartimes to continue. For 2007 smartimes will return to three issues. All our back issues will be made available from the download page of our website by the end of January 07’. By making our full list of issues available online, we will increase our annual subscription to £10. We still have a low percentage of readers paying the subscription. A password system is under review but this goes against the smartimes ethos. As such I would ask readers to honour the request for the subscription payment. Remember, as paid subscribers you are entitle to our monthly email newsletter as well as access to the on-line e-magazines. Just fill in the small form on the home page of the smartimes web site. Our special thanks go to all that have contributed to smartimes, either by way of articles or help with production and subscription this year. Please remember you our readers are more than important to us so, keep sending us your own stories and photos, however long or short the subject. If you run a local meet or have arranged your own event please send us the details for publication. You may even run a local/regional or national club overseas. Whatever your situation or location, if you have something to share with the world-wide smart community, smartimes and our readers want to hear from you. www.clubsmartcar.ca Stephen Goddard Canadian smart owners club and forum editor and publisher smartimes - the only independent smart car magazine The views and opinions published in smartimes magazine are not those of smartimes magazine ltd or its management. www.smartenthusiast.com Articles are edited and published without condition or copyright restriction of the writer/ supplier. Submission and publication is not a contract between smartimes magazine ltd and American smart owners club the writer/supplier. Smartimes holds the copyright for all material published in smartimes magazine. 4 smartimes magazine smart meetings and events MEETINGS Andover Smart meet.
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    u JUNE 13, 2005 AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE 19 u Suppliers to the new Volkswagen Golf Plus Volkswagen’s Golf Plus – a high-roof version of Europe’s top-seller – is specialist Carcoustics International of Leverkusen, Germany, has a high Volkswagen group’s other vehicles built on the company’s PQ35 platform. one of 15 new vehicles available with optional adaptive front lighting from level of responsibility for soundproofing and insulating the Golf Plus’ These include the Skoda Octavia, Seat Altea and Audi A3. The Golf Plus German supplier Hella (the others include the BMW 5 series, Opel Astra engine bay. Carcoustics delivers engine encapsulation, heat shielding is assembled at VW’s German plants in Wolfsburg and Mosel. VW aims and Land Rover’s Range Rover Sport). Heat and sound management and dashboard insulation to the car. It supplies those same parts to the to sell about 150,000 units of the car a year. – Alex Graham ENGINE CONTROL ABS/ESC: A/C COMPRESSOR: AIR CONDITIONING CAR NAVIGATION, CAN-CAN WINDSHIELD: SUN STEERING REAR DOME LAMP: ELECTRONIC CENTER REAR WINDSHIELD: SYSTEM: CONTINENTAL SANDEN LINES: PARK ASSIST: GATEWAY: SAINT-GOBAIN VISOR: COLUMN: CML INNOVATIVE MULTIPURPOSE MODULE: HIGH-MOUNTED AGC AUTOMOTIVE MAGNETI MARELLI TEVES MANULI BOSCH CONTITEMIC SEKURIT INTIER THYSSENKRUPP TECHNOLOGIES APAG ELEKTRONIK BRAKE LIGHT: EUROPE PRESTA FER INTEGRAL ENGINE PACKAGE TRAY: ENCAPSULATION: FAURECIA CARCOUSTICS ALL BRAKE LINES: FUEL FILTER: TI AUTOMOTIVE UFI FILTERS STAMPINGS: CAMSHAFTS: FLEX-N-GATE THYSSENKRUPP ELECTROCOAT: CAM COVER MODULES: