Getting into your Smart Open a Smart. Smart manufactured the Fortwo model as a two-seater city car a as division of the Mercedes-Benz Group from 1998–2024. Attempts to market the car in North America were abandoned due to poor sales in 2018. First, if you are already inside, click here. Note, if you need another …
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Back-up open With a new door handle on top end models and a new key fob added a few months ago, it was time to create a new back-up open page for Mini. This separates the car maker from its BMW sibling. Back-up open procedures are necessary in keyless start cars for those moments when …
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New door handle A final review of 2025 Mini finds a new door handle. It is effectively a carbon copy of the handle found on the new BMW i4 model, and gives easier access to the key hole for the driver in the event that the key fob battery dies. Beggining in 2025, Mini John …
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Maserati back-up open and start With the introduction of several new models, our Maserati back-up open and start page became unwieldy. So, we separated them. The new models introduced in 2023 and 2024, Grecale, GranTourismo, GranCabrio, and GT2S, added two additional unlock options and a brand new way to start the vehicles. Prior to this, …
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Back-up start Much like the company’s back-up open procedures, a review of Maserati back-up start procedures also finds big changes. Although the change is not a difficult one, gone is the simple “touch the key fob to the start/stop button” method. These back-up start procedures are made necessary if and when the battery in the …
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Back-up open A review of Maserati back-up open procedures finds big changes. Key holes are now hidden across the line and, in fact, the line up itself is all new. Back-up entry options are made necessary for those moments when the battery in the key fob dies. Gone are the Ghibli, Levante, and Quatroport. In …
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Charger EV presents true back-up open dilemma
Back-up open We managed to miss the Dodge Charger electric vehicle (EV) when we updated back-up open and start processes for 2024 and 2025 Dodge vehicles. But when we chased down drive by brake after reading about a problem Edmunds had with the car, we realized we missed a confounding issue with getting into the …
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