My 2009 SMART Passion ForTwo will not drive and is experiencing a really strange behavior.
What happens is that I start the car, and while it's in park and idling, it will disengage the clutch just until it slightly lugs forward like an inch... then stop pretty much as soon as it's detecting the movement... at least that's what it seems like. It will continue to do this approximately every 6 seconds.
While it's in reverse or drive, it simply refuses to move at all. It tries... but it's as if something is locked in place preventing it from moving.
I had the software updated on it, changed out the clutch since I read somewhere that it could be the problem if it wasn't lined up properly when the motor was replaced.
Right now I have no idea what it could be and don't necessarily want to replace the transmission, since the car ran just fine and only experienced an engine failure prior to this.
Let me know if you need any further descriptions of symptoms or want a video of exactly what it's doing. Thanks in advance!!!
Back Story: Awhile back I was getting a knocking noise from the motor and drove it to the dealership. It had gotten progressively worse from when it started happening to the 30 minutes later when I got to the dealership.
They said it was due to a bearing in the motor that was worn out and I would have to replace the motor. I ended up towing it home.
I should have driven it at least onto the trailer, because I would have learned sooner than later that the dealership (Mercedes-Benz of Beverly Hills) had swapped out my working clutch actuator and replaced it with a faulty one from another vehicle.
I didn't realize this until I had swapped out the engine and it wouldn't move. So it was quickly determined that the clutch actuator was broken (because it wasn't mine to begin with). I went ahead and just bought a new one, but then the car still wouldn't work. It experienced this very strange behavior that both Mercedes and a specialty repair shop for SMART have no clue what's going on.
What happens is that I start the car, and while it's in park and idling, it will disengage the clutch just until it slightly lugs forward like an inch... then stop pretty much as soon as it's detecting the movement... at least that's what it seems like. It will continue to do this approximately every 6 seconds.
While it's in reverse or drive, it simply refuses to move at all. It tries... but it's as if something is locked in place preventing it from moving.
I had the software updated on it, changed out the clutch since I read somewhere that it could be the problem if it wasn't lined up properly when the motor was replaced.
Right now I have no idea what it could be and don't necessarily want to replace the transmission, since the car ran just fine and only experienced an engine failure prior to this.
Let me know if you need any further descriptions of symptoms or want a video of exactly what it's doing. Thanks in advance!!!
Back Story: Awhile back I was getting a knocking noise from the motor and drove it to the dealership. It had gotten progressively worse from when it started happening to the 30 minutes later when I got to the dealership.
They said it was due to a bearing in the motor that was worn out and I would have to replace the motor. I ended up towing it home.
I should have driven it at least onto the trailer, because I would have learned sooner than later that the dealership (Mercedes-Benz of Beverly Hills) had swapped out my working clutch actuator and replaced it with a faulty one from another vehicle.
I didn't realize this until I had swapped out the engine and it wouldn't move. So it was quickly determined that the clutch actuator was broken (because it wasn't mine to begin with). I went ahead and just bought a new one, but then the car still wouldn't work. It experienced this very strange behavior that both Mercedes and a specialty repair shop for SMART have no clue what's going on.