1990 Mercedes Benz 190

Routine

Owners filed 4 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the service brakes, hydraulic › foundation components. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation Components1
101
Power Train › Automatic Transmission1
000
Engine and Engine Cooling › Cooling System › Radiator Assembly1
000
Air Bags › Frontal1
101

What owners reported

Newest filings
Power Train › Automatic Transmission
Filed Mar 31, 1999DC

AT LIGHT & STARTED FORWARD. HEARD WHINNING NOISE & VEHICLE NOT ACCELERATING. SPEED ABOUT 30MPH. HAD COASTED VEHICLE HOME. TOWED TO DEALER & INFORMED BY MECHANIC THE TRANSMISSION WAS NOT OPERATING PROPERLY (NOT SHIFTING INTO GEAR). TRANSMISSION NEEDS REPLACING. *AK

Engine and Engine Cooling › Cooling System › Radiator Assembly
Filed Oct 2, 1995FL

VEHICLE OVERHEATS. *SD

Air Bags › FrontalCrash1 injured
Filed Jan 30, 1995CA

NO DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S AIRBAG DURING ABOVE ACCIDENT, RESULTING IN INJURY. "DUP 950515: 958735".

Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Foundation ComponentsCrash1 injured
Filed Jan 17, 1995CA

THE BRAKES FAILED, CAUSING VEHICLE TO LOSE CONTROL/ACCIDENT.

4 of 4 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19995000Routine
19971000Routine
19953000Routine
19937010Routine
19923000Routine
19916030Routine
1990 — this page4000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.