1999 Mercedes Benz 400

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › automatic transmission. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Power Train › Automatic Transmission	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Power Train › Automatic Transmission

Filed Feb 21, 2000TX

SINCE JANUARY 25,1999, MY ML430 HAS BEEN IN THE SERVICE DEPT. A TOTAL OF 18 DAYS. ON TWO OF THOSE OCCASIONS, MY VEHICLE'S TRANSMISSION WOULD SHIFT INTO NEUTRAL WHILE DRIVING AT SPEEDS OF 35MPH. AFTER TWO ATTEMPTS, DEALER FINALLY FOUND DEFECT AND REPLACED PARTS OF TRANSMISSION. NOW IN FEBRUARY 2000, MY TRANSMISSION IS HAVING PROBLEMS AGAIN. THIS TIME A MODULE HAS TO BE REPLACED. I HOPE THESE DEFECTS WILL END SOON. I FEEL THAT I HAVE PURCHASED A LEMON. THANK YOU . RACHEL HARRIS ([email protected]). *AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993

Year	Complaints	Fires	Assessment
2001	2	0	Routine
2000	2	0	Routine
1999 — this page	1	0	Routine
1998	2	0	Routine
1995	1	0	Routine
1993	10	1	Routine
1992	8	0	Routine

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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.