Smart Fortwo 450 Starter Motor Replacement
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This is the best complete guide to replacing the starter motor on a Smart 450 700cc. No flannel, just straight to the point. I made it as I couldn’t find this information anywhere online, I know you will find it useful.
Nice tutorial thanks. Unfortunately I have to do this jobs, as you can imagine I'm not very excited.
Forewarned is forearmed
Well put together...informative...to the point, excellent Video, at least know I know what I'm in for. Thank you, It is in deed very useful.
Thank you for your comment. I try to keep my videos to the point. Good luck with the job!
thanks million times your help!!!!
This is so timely.
I hope it helps
@@noflannelcarrepairs8312 for sure. Today I took off the rear valance. The back aluminum brace. I didn’t understand the process before I found your video so I unbolted the right rear engine mount. Lucky I didn’t break anything. So I bolted that back up. Unbolted the two rear subframe bolts and moved them upfront. Engine came down nicely. I made one mistake. I left the E brake on. After I dropped the engine I let the e brake off and boom. The front of the engine dropped another 6 inches. I can’t believe how incredibly tough it is to get to the starter. Years ago I owned a mid 00s Z4. When I realized I had to take the intake off, and the starter was under it, up top the engine. I sold it after that. This starter is on a whole different level. Tomorrow I will pull up the inter cooler , and as much as I hate to pull the AC lines off but at this point it’s not worth much as it is so tomorrow the AC lines, the throttle body, the inter cooler all come off and the starter out. I know, after all this I need to buy a new starter. No way I put a used one on after knowing how incredibly hard it is to change. I do want to pull the bad one apart, get it working if I can and run the engine. Then I’ll know it’s worth the investment. I could have bought a good use gas Smart for the money I have into it. I just hate to give up with what I have into it. So after sitting 4 years. We will see what it takes to fix this car.
@@christopherrasmussen8718 how did i go mine im hearing like a humming noise so im thinking its the atarter
Engine is down. Mines a CDI so it’s a bit different. I unbolted the AC compressor and flipped that over, hoses and all. The water pump is next. One starter bolt is forward, outside of the inter cooler duct. My injection pump is in the way of taking out the fan. So I’m planning on cutting a small hole in the side right across from the second starter bolt and using a magnetized socket to remove it. Then it goes back together
Hi, thank you for this good video! I have a question for you. When I put the longer bolts to drop the su frame, I need to take off any components or there is no problem? I need to take off the hand brake cable for example?
I don’t recall having to do anything with the handbrake cable although I made this video quite a while back now. I’m sure I would have included that step if it was required. Good luck!
@@noflannelcarrepairs8312 thank you so much!
Thanks very much for this video, helped no end when doing this job 👍
You’re welcome. I searched online for a decent guide to this job before I did it and found nothing useful, hence I made this one.