Smart ForTwo - Broken mess to sad goodbye! Start to finish revival

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Great to see a video detailing all of what was done in the Smart in one video. Early days of Smart Ownership resulted in the Crankshaft Position Sensor Failing, this has since been replaced, along with a new exhaust, I've also undersealed the car, and given it a oil and filter service and plan to do change the oil again in March/April. I've also made the Smart my own with some little styling mods and currently thinking how I can brighten up the interior, it is now my daily car replacing my Citroen C4 Cactus and is just about to click over to 5000 miles, most of that going up and down the A1/M1/M6 attending Car Shows and Smart Owners clubs meets. I've been bitten by the Smart Bug and a huge thank you to Ian and Carly for saving the Smart and giving it a second chance. You Can follow the Adventures of Arnold Smart as he is now known as over on my KZbin Channel.

[@Jaxs2]

You're missing it, really Ian ... 😁 Davy is enjoying himself, tho ... I absolutely love mine .. there great fun nice to see it all together .. 👍

[@ianhighley-zo3es]

Good to see all the Smart saga in one video. Thanks for putting this together.

[@richardhowlett7398]

So pleased that Davie is having fun with it up in Scotland.

[@martinh4982]

Glad to see Miss HubNut doing what I do in an automatic: left-foot trying to find the clutch, left-hand trying to find the gear stick!

[@HubNut]

She actually adjusted very quickly. I was impressed.

[@huwdavies6650]

My dad, the few times he has moved my EV and my previous diesel auto, has a tendency towards to left foot braking due to muscle memory. Seat belts definitely required!😂

[@nogginozzy6710]

I must say that I'm most delighted to see that you have found Mrs. Hubnut! (2.0 lol!) I felt for you when you announced your parting with Ms. hubnut (1.0) although it was amicable if i remember right... Ah-hum! Anyhow, focusing on the current!! I wish both yourself and Mrs. Hubnut all the very best for the future! She looks like a wonderful fit for you! Cheers!!

[@owensteele1645]

We've just purchased the most economical BMW(?) in the world - a '14-plate 11,000-mile DFSK Loadhopper Panel-van. I've taken it off the road so I can thoroughly clean the underside ready for rust-proofing. It's great fun to drive for such a tiny van. It needs no further work other than to find a cheap BMW badge for the bonnet.

[@HubNut]

Oooh, we love a Dongfeng.

[@Morecheeeeese]

Drive Caerphilly everyone 😎

[@alanreilly2754]

Smart engineers thought 'starter motor' is the part you need to start building the car!

[@twocvbloke]

It was quite the saga getting that thing to run, they definitely didn't build them with the home mechanic in mind, that's a given... :S

[@chrisdowns1987]

Proper well done bleeding the cooling system, I was on the receiving end of a couple of techs not managing it on one & we ended up with misfires & warning lights galore! I got handed it (in desperation I think, they probably thought I hadn't got a hope!) & it ended up rear wheels chocked, front on the ramp @ a 45 degree angle before the air lock burped out 😂. I borrowed works diesel fourtwo again the other day & noted it has the paddle shifters. On a 0.8 turbodiesel! 😂 Swapping the frame bolts front to rear is a good idea, btw I'll remember that!

[@Turnbull50]

Good luck if you can sort everything out. It looks quite Smart.

[@MattBrownbill]

Maybe do this roundup for cars from long past, might get people watching the original videos also?

[@HubNut]

Ta. Just testing the format with this one really. Seems a good idea.

[@simonbarnwell7787]

Well that was a roller coaster ride of emotions , i really disliked the car and thought it pointless untill you fixed her up nicely then i understood why you wanted it in the first place , and then it was gone !

[@jemmaball-op4fi]

The hubnut car that got away !!

[@Dhira108]

Loved the smart car adventures a quirky car for sure. Sad to see it go, but great to see it saved for the scrapheap

[@thatcheapguy525]

as Jethro once said "its a hautomatic but I try and be here if I can"

[@micheltebraake7915]

Learned something new, SMART stands for Swatch Mercedes Art, never knew that.

[@huwdavies6650]

Great to see a summary video based on a HubNut series of videos. On the subject of Smart cars, any plans to visit the Coupland Collection? Smart cars, Proton's, Micra's, Armstrong Siddeley, MR2, Rover 75, Audi's and his dad has a rather lovely Phase 1 2.0 Petrol Peugeot 406 Estate.

[@HubNut]

It'd certainly be nice to visit. He's right the other side of the country though!

[@huwdavies6650]

@HubNut you could combine it with a visit to the Lincolnshire Aviation heritage trust and Just Jane.

[@allanmollison6971]

It was an awesome car, shame you sold it. But a least it went to a good home. 😊

[@mrjsv4935]

Very nicely done to save this little Smart car from scrap, and restore it back to life 🙂👍

[@Gerwyn68]

love the recap form of video, i forgot about some of the problems you had, heres looking to more car flips in 2025

[@tony-yp6qk]

another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍

[@fsodn]

I drove some Smart FourTwos. The ones that I drove for signficant time all had paddle shifters on the steering wheel. I would always let up when shifting; it seemed to make it shift pretty well. Maybe the shifting is driven by a servo connected to the intake manifold, so when you let up on the throttle you get a burst of vaccum causing it to actual the automatic clutch?

[@HubNut]

It's all electronically controlled. The clutch is disengaged and the engine power briefly cut. You don't have to lift your foot at all.

[@fsodn]

@@HubNut Right, I know you don't *have* to. I didn't test it a statistically significant number of times both ways, but I definitely tried it a few times both leaving the accelerator pedal down and lifting up on it as I shifted. My anecdotal impression definitely agrees with Ms. Hubnut here, is my point. It seemed to me to shift more quickly and more smoothly if I let up on the gas as I shifted with the paddle shifters. I'd assumed there was a vacuum connection but maybe it was just in my head. I don't know that I'll ever be able to make a systematic study of it now. Ten years ago I could have gotten a car2go somewhere and tested it out. Unless I buy one, finding a Smart that I could use for a day is going to be hard. Other than car2go, I don't think they've ever been for rent, certainly not in North America.

[@pagegreer5081]

I do love HN fiddling

[@69Phuket]

Was a passenger in one.. Seemed very frenetic and fun, Seat of yer pants motoring!

[@hectorshouse7348]

Good money to be made on these😀👍

[@andyt2510]

6:25 - would that have been the Smart car showroom that was in Kings Norton, Birmingham where you was test driving Smarts from? Now a branch of Bristol Street Motors

[@HubNut]

Yes, I think the first roadster I drove was from there. Also targetted Hay Mills quite often.

[@Phiyedough]

I always fancied a Smart but I'm glad I didn't get one. I did look at adverts for them but was put off by all the lists of new bits that had been fitted.

[@Mjk10957]

I wonder whats more of a pain to work on , a 2006 smart or a 2006 mini , i am currently doing the clutch on a 2006 mini its bit of a pain to say the least having to drop the sub frame ect.

[@worldhello1234]

@29:22 Don't forget to take some tasty Gouda with you. 🤗

[@pagegreer5081]

ANOTHER SMART. I neeed to watch with my readers so I can read all the writen word.

[@steveosshenanigans]

Isn’t this an old video that has been re uploaded ?

[@HubNut]

It's a series of videos, repackaged into one.

[@extramild1]

An interesting car. I would not want to be in a bad crash in one thou.

[@robertwatts1664]

Or indeed, in any car .

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

Believe it or not they crash test rather well. Look up Fifth Gear crashing one at high speed it's pretty amazing but yes, but like you I would not want to be in it.

[@CasperthefriendlyG10T]

Weehoo I'm like number 559!

[@annsmith8000]

Put a sail on call it a junk

[@brianfreeman8290]

Get a 451 !

[@mbak7801]

Don't bother trying to weld an exhaust box. Too easy to blow holes in them and hardly lasts at all. Light at 7 at night???? It is dark here at 4:00. How many months ago did you do this?

[@HubNut]

Smart project was March through to the end of June.

[@COLLSWORK]

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[@2tone209]

AY UP MR AND MRS HUBNUT

[@SoWereDoingWhatNow]

What language is Ay Up from? Is that Welsh for hello?

[@tauncfester3022]

@@SoWereDoingWhatNow I'm American take with a bit of salt, but on Stuart Fillingham's YT channel he always opens with "Aye-yup!" and he's from North Yorkshire. So what would I know...

[@SoWereDoingWhatNow]

@@tauncfester3022 Ok thanks, I would never have guessed it was from an area in England. Thought it might be old traditional Welsh.

[@2tone209]

@SoWereDoingWhatNow NO ITS SLANG FOR HELLO ITS WHAT WE SAY UP NORTH AND MIDLANDS HERE IN ENGLAND

[@SoWereDoingWhatNow]

@@2tone209 Why the hell are you YELLING AT ME? It was just an innocent question. Geezus, far out. 🙄

[@BillMalcolm-tn3kq]

Sorry to be negative. Wasn't interested in the Smart car from beginning to end. They sold those bags of utter nonsense here in Canada -- try to find one now. I find it rather fun keeping up with Hubnut eccentricities in the old banger field, and I love the Kenari. Love the old steam railways nd trip to watch an A380 take off. Scratch my head at some of the decisions made on maintenance of the Hubnut fleet, enough to REALLY wonder at times. But the Smart car was out of step from the relatively straightforward old bangers you keep running somehow. It was a typical Mercedes how do we make the most insanely modernly complex and useless piece of rear-engine two seat not really repairable by mortal man vehicular bodge for nothing but a marketing campaign for cheapo watches. And they succeeded in producing one, wind noise and all. It has no soul that I can fathom, it is just a modern "product". Britain is renowned as the home of harmless eccentrics, and I'm glad to hear the Smartcar is getting a new life for one happy chap. To me, however, it is one layer of eccentricity too far, like worshipping a pagan deity. Compared to a 2CV, it's just not in the competition. Compared to the Berlingo or the Asian minicars barring the Daewoo GM nonsense, and the straightforward Aussie Betty, the Smartcar just doesn't fit with Hubnut. Not in my view anyway, so I didn't watch this Smart car medley episode. Couldn't be bothered.

[@slipperyfish7560]

That's a shame. I utterly despise the smart cars as well, but this was a very interesting video regardless; well worth the watch. Also, whether a car is "hubnut" or not is really down to the man himself (and Ms. Hubnut), not really for us to decide.

[@joeg8186]

Again the wrong smart car, get a 2004/06 forfour

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

Again? Was there another ForTwo before this? I missed it.

[@joeg8186]

@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt no I said the first time it was the wrong one

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

@@joeg8186 Didn't he listen? Has he bought another one then?

[@joeg8186]

@@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt was just saying for the second time, he should get a 454

[@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt]

@@joeg8186 He still didn't listen for the second time