When I start my car and put it in drive it shows reverse on the screen or nothing at all. Then my car will back up instead of going forward. I almost got into an accident a few times because of this problem. This problem has happened to me more than once. The air tubes in the engine already have cracks in them likely because a cheap material was used to produce them, this is very dangerous because it can lead to engine fires in many of these vehicles. In addition, something seems to be already wrong with my transmission and the car is not even that old.
2009 smart Fortwo electrical complaints
Page 2 of 2: complaints 11 to 14 of 14, newest first, as owners wrote them.
Ok the motion sensor stopped working, the radio was drawing 870ma while car is shut off so had to get that disconnected. The heater fan went they replaced the heater fan from my extended warranty but the other two things was not so now im with out a radio that was put in by the smart car people and when my top is down I have no motion sensor the radio drew so bad of a draw that the battery would die over night while the car was off yes the car was off and so was the radio. I am up set that being it was not my doings at all of the miss haps of the radio and motion sensor that I should have to go with out a radio or sensor in my 2009 car im now affraid to drive it cause of the problems and that I have no radio in it or motion sensor. I cant afford to pay the dealer ship or anyone else for a new one I didn't brake it its only 5 years old with 23,000 miles on it please help me.
The car has a problem with not going in reverse when you put the gear shifter in 'r' position? Usually after driven and the car is warmed up. The car just rolls when put in reverse, as if though it's in neutral.. When giving gas it just revs the engine and nothing happens.. The car is automatic transmission. And it can be dangerous putting the car in reverse if it's on a slope. The vehicle can roll. This is a normal problem with the 08-09 year. This should defiantly be a recall issue. Thank you for taken the time to read my complaint.
After getting home from school, coming in saying hello to the family I went back out to my car to get my bag. When I approached my car I could hear what I believed to be my radiator fans still running despite the car was turned off. My logic was "maybe a glitch in the computer." so I proceeded to simply turn the car on and then off to see if that would help. Nope, that didn't do the trick. Puzzled I came inside to inform my dad what was going on, while I was talking to my dad I could hear the factory alarm going off, then it started honking, the windshield wipers were running. When I approached my car to see if the there was a chance that I left something on. When I opened the door, I saw smoke coming under the driver side console, then sparks, then fire!!!! I ran and grabbed the hose to put it out before it got worse and possibly losing the car. I have taken the battery out to make sure this doesn't happen. The carpet near the peddles are singled from the fire and the fuse box is exposed and most of the plastic housing has melted away. Sadly my car is outside the warranty so smart will not do anything. So now I am making some calls to see what my next options are. I've called smart customer care and said there is nothing they can do. Not sure what could have caused this to happen, the only upgrade I've done on my smart is just upgrading the horn, but that was when I first got it. I'll post pictures later. Needless to say I'm glad this happened after I parked the car at my house rather then being stuck on the side of road watching it being engulfed in flames and losing my car completely.
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