2000 Mercedes Benz 400

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › engine › gasoline. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Fuel System, Gasoline › Storage › Tank Assembly › Filler Pipe and Cap1
000
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Fuel System, Gasoline › Storage › Tank Assembly › Filler Pipe and Cap
Filed Oct 19, 2001DE

ON FILLING THE FUEL TANK WITH GASOLINE, THE GASOLINE SPEWS OUT OF THE FILLER FITTING AS THE TANK FILLS BEYOND 3/4 FULL. THIS OCCURS WHETHER FILLING THE VEHICLE USING THE AUTOMATIC SHUT-OFF FROM THE PUMP OR WHETHER VERY SLOWLY FILLING THE VEHICLE MANUALLY. THIS IS A NEW PHENOMENON INSOFAR AS IT HAS OCCURRED DURING THE LAST THREE FUELINGS OF THE VEHICLE. THIS DID OCCUR ONE TIME ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO. WHEN REPORTED TO THE DEALER, I WAS INFORMED THAT THIS WAS NOT A PROBLEM WITH THE VEHICLE, BUT WITH THE GASOLINE PUMP PUMPING TOO VIGOROUSLY. WHEN I ALMOST LITERALLY DRIBBLED GASOLINE INTO THE PUMP AT THE LAST FILLING, GASOLINE STILL SPEWED OUT OF THE TANK. I ATTEMPTED TO STOPPED THE OUTPOUR (AND I MEAN OUTPOUR) BY PLACING THE GASOLINE CAP ON THE CAR TO CLOSE OFF THE FLOW. AFTER THIS THE CAR MISFIRED WHEN DRIVEN. ALSO, THE GASOLINE GUAGE IN THE VEHICLE ONLY REGISTERED AT 3/4 FULL. IN THE LAST INCIDENT WHICH I JUST DESCRIBED, ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF GASOLINE ESCAPED SINCE I WAS "READY FOR IT" THIS TIME, SO IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A PROBLEM WITH THE SPEED OF THE FILLING OF THE TANK, NOR WITH THE VEHICLE HAVING BEEN "OVER-FILLED". I DID NOT REPORT THE LATEST INCIDENT TO THE DEALER SINCE THEY INDICATED THEY WOULD NOT HELP ME WITH THIS MATTER. *AK

Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline
Filed Jul 24, 2000NY

VEHICLE SHUTS ITSELF OFF WHILE IN MOTION. PROBLEM PERSISTS AT RANDOM TIMES AND SITUATIONS. INCIDENTS HAPPENED TRAVELING AT 60MPH AFTER 30MIN OF TRAVEL, AT 5MPH AFTER 1 HOUR OF TRAVEL, AND AT 5MPH IN REVERSE SECONDS AFTER TURNING VEHICLE ON. INCIDENTS HAPPENED THE DAY AFTER DEALER DELIVERED NEW VEHICLE. BOTH DEALER AND MANUFACTURER HAVE BEEN INFORMED. DEALER TOWED TRUCK TODAY TO INSPECT. *AK

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20012000Routine
2000 — this page2000Routine
19991000Routine
19982000Routine
19951000Routine
199310010Routine
19928000Routine

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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.