Bleeding Your Smart Car's Coolant System Why and How

It has to suck in hot water. Generally when the engine is running, I've always found it "pulls" the radiator level down, at least early on. Once ... Depends how you filled the system. If you added coolant to the radiator and into the lower intake before installing the thermostat you may not need to bleed ... Let the car just run in idle and wait until the cooling fans come on. At that point the thermostat should be fully opened and the air will flow ... Now you can bleed the car and there should be significantly less air in the system. Once you get straight coolant out of the bleeder, close it ... Evening all, Got my car running but seem to be having issues with bleeding the coolant system. The dash gauge only got up to 60* but the oil ... To bleed the system, smart have kindly provided a valve on the top right hand side of the radiator. Unscrew the valve and you should be able ... Open the burp value while the car is cold then drive the car around until it reaches operating temp to let the system circulate. As per other posts on the forum, the coolant level sits just on minimum but never drops. If I top it up to the max level, it just goes back to ... Turn off the engine and drain the water, fill up the radiator with antifreeze until you have a 50/50 coolant / distilled water mixture and burp the system. Like ... Just get another car, run it and parallel the batteries. That's how I bled my cooling system. This.