This article is the second part of three, I'm going to refer to it, when I'm going to show you what can be replaced and how you can do that yourself.
Actually, I know very well, that it's rather common in the USA and Canada, that batteries die due to a dead 12 V battery after the winter. That's a huge flaw and not what I call good German engineering. Here in smart's main market they are dealing with these kind of problems by being rather forthcoming with the repair costs. But, as they decided smart isn't going to be sold in the USA and Canada, they dropped the support to a minimum....
Bare with me guys. Of course, my page is called "passion", as the smart ED & EQ is my passion. But that doesn't mean I'm not able to criticizes them. There's a lot to criticizes right now, especially about how they treat the USA and Canada and that they are still rocking the same battery capacity (and therefor range) as in 2012.
The page is available in Germany and in English. The English page is written with the US and Canadien marked in mind, but it also needs to cover the non German speaking European users. That's why it's such a stretch at some points and not everything is perfectly fitting for only your cases.
Nevertheless I'm trying to help you guys where ever I can. I've got enough passion to even try to help you guys with these kind of problems. That's also, why I've written a
article about the basics you need to know for replacing HV components in a electric smart. And why I'm
explaining how electric cars work, documenting their
technical key data over the generations and giving
buying advices for used ones.
And as a side note:
I'm not related to Daimler by any means. Personally, I now went to school again, so I'm allowed to study. Which I'm going to start in October. I'm 22 years old now and going to study electrical engineering.