Transmission Not Go Into Gear Problems of Smart Fortwo Cabrio

(1) power train issue; no rhyme or reason the vehicle will not shift into gear. After some time, I discovered that you must shut the vehicle off and re-start to shift the transmission into gear. This seems to be happening more often over the past two months! I have had this happen after pulling out of a parking spot and trying to place the vehicle into r or d, I have tried placing the car into n and back to either r or d with no luck, again had to re-start while blocking traffic! this should not be happening on a newer vehicle. (2) electrical issue; no rhyme or reason the heater/ac blower will not power on and is intermitting issue. After some time now, I have determined that I have to rap on the dash by the glove box to start the blower. I have also had the blower stop working while driving down the road after hiting a pot hole or a big bump. It appears that there is a short in the wiring, but I,m unable to locate it. Really worried about a vehicle fire over time? (3) electrical issue; I have had to replace both headlamps several times since ownership of vehicle. This appears to be an issue of the fixture not sealing correctly. Luckly, I have only lost one headlamp at a time, why has then not been addressed?.

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The transmission won't engage into reverse. Called for help. They had me reach under gear shift and release a cable to move car, after I did that I went to work and car wouldn't shift out of gear into park. Called and they picked it up to fix it, came back and I had no problem for a while and then it would shift but not lock into gear, rocked the car, pushed it and finally it worked, this is a repeat thing. I am having problem right this moment, I can't drive my car. I looked on line to see if there is a resolution and the internet is full of complaints of people having the same problem. Pages and pages of them. If this is an on going issue why has there not been a recall to fix all these cars? I cannot be the only complaint that came to you. There are thousands.

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