1999 Mercedes Benz 240

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the exterior lighting › fog lights. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Exterior Lighting › Fog Lights1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Exterior Lighting › Fog Lights
Filed Apr 26, 1999PA

THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE OWNERS MANUAL STATES THAT WHEN THE FOG LIGHTS ARE ACTIVATED A GREEN INDICATOR LIGHT SHOULD APPEAR ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL, BUT THE LIGHT DOES NOT ILLUMINATE. CAUSE UNKNOWN. GREEN LIGHT CURRENTLY APPERS WHEN FOG LIGHTS ARE ACTIVATED DUE TO NEW SOFTWARE .*AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2003
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
200327010Routine
200226010Routine
200122000Routine
1999 — this page1000Routine
19952000Routine

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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.