Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine
Filed Sep 18, 1998CA
VEHICLE DOES NOT START WHEN CONSUMER STARTS IT UP. KEEPS ON TRYING AND IT WILL FINALLY START AFTER GRINDING. DEALER CONTACTED AND THE PROBLEM STILL EXISTS. *AK
1991 Mercedes Benz C Class
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › engine. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filings1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Across model years
Worst on record: 1995| Year | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Deaths | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2008 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Routine |
| 2006 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2005 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2004 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Routine |
| 2003 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2002 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Routine |
| 2001 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1999 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1998 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 1996 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 1995 | 49 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Fatalities reported |
| 1994 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 0 | Routine |
| 1991 — this page | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
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.