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Model: Smart Smart 451 - Years 2007-2015
Part: Bodywork
Operation: Installing a storage armrest on the Smart 450/451

Let's see how to easily install an armrest on a Smart 450/451 without making any holes. We can find it on Amazon for 46.99 (including delivery costs) or similar. However, we advise you to take an armrest that has a free bottom, precisely for the fixing system, because we simply fit it on the handbrake, then we push it towards the final part of the brake itself, until it is beyond the lever , so that it doesn't bother us if we have to use it. In this way the armrest will be well fixed and will not bother us if we have to use it. There are armrests, even cheaper ones, which have a bodywork that has a solid lower part, so they cannot be used for this type of fixing above the handbrake.


Posted on 24 November 2022 by ScegliAuto

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Handbrake adjustment on Ford Ecosport

First remove the plastic profile at the base of the gear lever. To do this, slightly widen the side edges and carefully lift it to release it. There is no need to remove it completely, just move it forward to avoid bother. Now remove the plastic center console around the handbrake by first working from the rear to release it and lifting it until the brake lever passes. Also in this case it is not necessary to remove it completely but, paying attention to the connected cables, it can be stowed in front of the passenger seat. At this point we notice that at the base of the handbrake lever, on the front, we find a nut. By acting on it, with a 10 wrench, we can adjust the brake force, increasing it by turning the nut clockwise, or decreasing it by turning it counterclockwise. Once adjusted, the center console can be repositioned first, pressing lightly to engage it, and then the profile of the gearbox base.

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