My son was delivering pizzas and noticed while hitting a bump that there was some noise, some rattling, then major imbalance vibration followed by a loss of coolant.

I brought a trailer and picked up the car at Papa Johns where he was working and noticed he was missing 2 out of 9 or so fan blades on his engine's mechanical fan. I have no idea how this happened, but I'm assuming it just happened. I at first figured road debris got caught in the fan but there's a shield plate under the car near where the fan operates. So I'm at a loss as to how this could have happened other than that it just happened.

Unfortunately the blades hit the radiator and put a couple holes in it. This is on a w210 for what it's worth.

Anyone else have a similar problem?

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