1996 Mercedes Benz 420

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the electrical system › wiring › fuses and circuit breakers. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Electrical System › Wiring › Fuses and Circuit Breakers1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical System › Wiring › Fuses and Circuit Breakers
Filed Apr 10, 1997CA

BRAKE LIGHT FUSE BLEW.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1997
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19995000Routine
199722010Routine
1996 — this page1000Routine
199515020Routine
199416000Routine
19914010Routine
19903100Routine

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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.