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Hi Guys & Gals, anyone know anything about the new Smart fortwo coming this year to the lower 48(USA)? I have a reservation # 7252801334. Is there anyway of decoding this number? These numbers must mean something!
I did find some info on safety that I thought would be of interest. This site shows drawing/pictures and explains how the car is constructed. This is not the usual safety info put out by Smart sites. Try it and let me know if I was to easily impressed? www.smartcarmidwest.com/smartcarsafety.html.
This is my first club I have joined about Smart and would like to hear back. I have a lot or maybe very little information about Smart fortwo, it all depends how informed you are. Maybe we could all share and learn at the same time. Neal
I did find some info on safety that I thought would be of interest. This site shows drawing/pictures and explains how the car is constructed. This is not the usual safety info put out by Smart sites. Try it and let me know if I was to easily impressed? www.smartcarmidwest.com/smartcarsafety.html.
This is my first club I have joined about Smart and would like to hear back. I have a lot or maybe very little information about Smart fortwo, it all depends how informed you are. Maybe we could all share and learn at the same time. Neal
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The reservation number is a time stamp of when you placed your online reservation. The last four digits represent the day, In your case day #1334. Day one of reservations was #1073 or March 19th 2007 (1073 days from 1-1-04, a microsoft start date) You must have made your reservation on 8-27-07 (if my math is correct). The remaining digits are the exact time of day backwards. 08:25.27 AM PDT.
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dderaleau, You are exactly correct as to the date of my reservation.Thanks for the data. Where did you retrieve this data from? I tried to search that number for months on the net(including contacting Smart) and you are first real info I got on it. I am trying to find out how my number equates to the delivery list and date, so I can make some plans down the road.
Thanks again.
I haven't put in my official order form yet, but hope it will be soon. I have a lot of unanswered questions ie: changing front tire size, daytime running lights, owner's manual on the net and what does one get for $120 on the added instruments(I heard it's only a Tac and Clock).
Added note: I read somewhere that the Smart Passion has one of the largest fixed sunroofs in the industry. It is made of Makrolen@ Polycarbonate made by Bayer.
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Information came from another forum....lots of info on the forum, but you need to sift through what is said and determine the good info from the bad. www.smartcarofamerica.com/forums
You are correct on the pod gauges.
I believe daytime lights are required.
No owners manuals are available yet for the US spec car.
There is a chart somewhere on that forum that estimates where you would be in the overall count of reservations based on the day you reserved.
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dderaleau-Thanks for the site, I will check it out.
I called my local Smart dealer about an update on car deliveries. He said test cars were coming in next week and he will call me with a time and date for another test run. I hope the paperwork to order will happen at that time.
You seem very knowledgeable about Smart and I hope we can be of some benefit to one another and the club. After getting the fortwo I plan to share my pros and cons with everyone and how I plan to fix the
cons.
I ran across a website www.smartieparts.com and hope to order some stuff(driver's side center armrest). If anyone has had trouble with this site let me know? If I find any good upgrade sites and parts sites I will list them. Thanks again for speedy reply.
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I will be going to my dealers open house in the morning. I hope to gain more info on the confirmaion process as well. My reservation number is $1293. I will try and find out where that puts me in the process, from there we can estimate where you would be, I'll let you know more tomorrow.
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Hi neal,
Welcome to the 451s, glad you joined and I promise it will be a great year for you and all the other members. As for information on the 451 smart fortwo, I own one and have a lot of data at hand but I had never seen that site and information you posted, its really great and helpful.
Please share the information you have in the forum with others, ask question when you have them and if you are doing some work on your smart by all means keep us posted. I've done a lot of work to my 451 which I've named forfiveone, the car has its own blog here: http://www.451s.com/profile/forfiveone
Take a look at what I've been doing and let me know if you have any questions, I also have a bunch of other things done to the car but have yet to upload them to the site, too much work getting this site running, my day job and just adding in parts but promise this weekend a lot more info will come.
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With Regards to Safety Check this out. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/60538/smart_car_crash/
Couldn't have imagined a small safe car before.
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