Radiator Problems of Smart Fortwo

The contact owns a 2014 Smart Fortwo. The contact was driving at 60 mph, when the vehicle lost power and the contact noticed white smoke coming from the rear of the vehicle. The vehicle was towed to the contact's residence and the tow truck driver informed the contact that the radiator had burst. The contact notified park place motorcars mercedes-benz dallas (6113 lemmon Ave, dallas, TX 75209) of the failure and was informed that there was no recall for the failure experienced. The vehicle was diagnosed by an independent mechanic as an overheated engine failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not informed of the failure. The failure mileage was 65,000.

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I purchased a 2008 Smart car on 21 oct 13. The check engine light came on at the end of December of 13. I took it in to honest 1 to have it serviced, oil changed, all fluids checked, breaks and engine. I was told that all fluids were great and I paid the bill. The engine light was still on and I went back in. The gentleman worked on it for several minutes and then turned it off. On 30 Mar 14 I was driving home from church and the car died in the middle of the road with all the dash board lights coming on, by the grace of god I was able to get over to the right side of the road with out incident. At the Smart car dealership I am now told that the engine had no water in the radiator, the head is cracked and the engine seized up. Here is the problem. . . . . There was no check engine light and no high temp radiator light show up to say there was a problem. If one had come on you can be sure that I would have had it looked into. I now have to buy a used engine and my concern is that this could happen again.

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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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