1998 Mercedes Benz 280

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the visibility › windshield. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Visibility › Windshield1
000
Tires1
000
Fuel System, Other › Storage › Fuel Gauge System1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Visibility › Windshield
Filed Aug 28, 2001CA

THE DRIVER HEARD A PING NOISE, NOT VERY LOUD AND SUBSEQUENTLY A SMALL STAR LIKE MARK ON THE WINDSHIELD APPEARED, WITHIN A COUPLE HOURS LONG FREEFORM CRACK LINES ON THE WINDSHIELD HAD EMANATED FROM THAT SMALL STAR LIKE PING EARLIER ON, THE CONSUMER BELIEVES THIS IS A DESIGN DEFECT, THE WINSHIELD HAD TO BE REPLACED. NLM

Tires
Filed Oct 17, 1999NY

ALL 4 TIRES NEED TO BE REPLACED EVEN BEFORE 20,000 MILES OR THE CAR 2 YRS OLD. *AK( DOT NUMBER: TIRE SIZE: 205/60 15 )

Fuel System, Other › Storage › Fuel Gauge System
Filed Feb 1, 1999CA

GAS GAUGE SENSOR FAILED. YH

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1995
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20006000Routine
19993000Routine
1998 — this page3000Routine
19975000Routine
199613000Routine
199547040Routine
199418040Routine

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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.