1999 Mercedes Benz E55

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the seats. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Seats	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Seats

Filed Nov 14, 201876,000 milesCA

FRONT DRIVER AND PASSENGER SEATS BECOME LOOSE OVER TIME AND DEVELOP A CLICKING NOISE ON EVERY ACCELERATION AND BRAKING. MANY PEOPLE ARE REPORTING THIS ISSUE IN CAR FORUMS ONLINE AND THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND A FIX. DEALERSHIP EXPERIENCES ALSO DID NOT INVESTIGATE FAR ENOUGH FOR A FIX. MERCEDES RELEASED A SUPPOSED "FIX" IN THE FORM OF NEW BOLTS FOR THE SEATS BUT THESE BOLTS ARE NOT THE ISSUE. IT SEEMS TO BE THE PLASTIC GEARS IN THE SEAT MOTORS WEARING DOWN.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2002

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Deaths	Assessment
2002	1	0	0	0	Routine
1999 — this page	1	0	0	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.