Roger, good to hear you believe the smart to be a reliable car. We will soon see how the 451 holds up. My wife averages around 40k miles a year. So it won't take long. The car we replaced was a 2000 Subaru still going strong after over 250K miles. I…
Change your wife, problem solved...................If that dose'nt work you must rember that the car must be at a standstill with the brake pedal pressed, I don't know what the difference is in the states but reading this forum you seem to be having…
Thanks Barbara... That is the conclusion I came to through my research. This is not a gear shifter issue. The lever you can always move the lever as I stated. Also it is not a 3 bar engine management issue. Don't get the 3 bars... I saw somewhere th…
I got my car in September 2008. I was having the same problem. They had it in the shop and had to replace something. (I can't remember but I'm thinking something to do with the clutch). They got the part in but then realized they had to have a speci…
My wife is having a problem with her car not going in to gear. It generally seems to show up when she is trying to quickly shift from forward to reverse like in doing a 3 point turn or parallel parking. When this happens it does not go into gear. Yo…
Thank you for the explanation and math. I was familiar only with the French usage for "CV", which equaled 7 SAE Horsepower for tax purposes. For example, the French "Deux Chevaux" had 14 SAE HP, which is why it was known as the Deux Chevaux, or "2 H…
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