I could not get the car to heat up to the red zone while running, so it has to be an intermittent problem that exists only under extreme conditions. It will repeat this cycle as the car idles. When I let the car idle w/o the A/C on, the fan will kick on at ~100 degrees C, and run until the temp goes goes back down to ~90 degrees C. With the A/C on, the fan kicks on at a high speed shortly after I turn on the A/C (within seconds). They did not replace the cap on the radiator or the cap on the overflow tank. I know for a fact that they did not check the temperature gauge for accuracy, nor did they use an IR thermometer to evaluate the radiator. I am seriously considering taking them to court, depending upon what my garage discovers. To answer your question about small-claims court, I am in NY and the shop is in NJ. Water pump is new as of 4/15, radiator new as of 7/2011. I am not losing coolant, there is no oil in the coolant or coolant in the oil, or white smoke out the tail pipe. The shop that did the "repair" in December maintains I must have some new problem, which I don't believe. I had a bad feeling that it might, and it did. Well, last week I was stuck in traffic again (for the first time since the December repair) and again it overheated. They threw their hands up in the air, but replaced the thermostat and did a cooling-system flush. For them the electric fan kicked on at 110 degrees C. I had it towed to a nearby MB dealership (not my regular shop) where they were unable to replicate the problem. In December 2015, my 2004 C-class wagon overheated (temp light came on, nothing dramatic) for the very first time while stuck in traffic for 30 minutes.
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