First oddities of our Smart (re: electrical anomalies)

[rubyg]

One time only I start the car and seconds later the radio display went off for a second o 2 , hear relays clicking on the CAM module ( where the fuses are) but it came back to normal.Sometimes the auto wipers start when I start the car, mention these to the dealer and they come back with "can not duplicate" or "no codes on the computer"

[GoSmartGo]

I will certainly take the car to the dealer this week and I will post the results.

With regard to rebooting, anyone know where the CTRL, ALT, and DELETE Keys are? Seriously, I disconnected the battery, waited a minute, and reconnected with same results.

Also, does anyone know of there is a section in the forum for DEFINITIVE (or close) resolutions to commonly found problems. As time passes, I am sure we will find common failures and solutions that may be %90+ accurate. Might be worth placing all these defintive solutions to common problems sindexed and omewhere easy to find.

...Just a thought and, yes, I know that there will always be an exception.

[Ahpsi]

rubyg, I note the auto-wipers will cycle once at 'boot' occasionally. The sensor looks for a percentage of infra-red light refracted back from an emitter, the lower the percentage the more rain. My guess is it either blips at boot or has a spurious reading that causes it to cycle. I would note the owners manual recommends not leaving the wipers in auto-mode (which kinda goes against the whole idea of 'auto').

[mmuir]

Ours just did the radio and wipers issue just like smartorr1 described. Started during our recent cold snap (temps in the single digits in Virginia). Just dropped it off at the dealer.

[SMARTORR1]

The washer system ended up blowing a fuse because the washer solvent was low and frozen. Makes sense to me, especially because of the extremely cold temperatures we experienced in Chicago that week. I just didn't think that one fuse would be related to all three of those functions. Easy trip to the dealer.

[mmuir]

Thanks SMARTORR1. I relayed that info to our smart service dept, they double checked and found the fuse problem. Saved us from waiting for the arrival of parts they wanted to replace. Also, apparently there was another car there with similar problems and they found the same issue. Two for the price of one. Thanks again for the followup post.