2011 Mercedes Benz ML320

Routine

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

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Service Brakes1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Service Brakes
Filed Jan 4, 2023110,000 milesFL

Brakes failed without warning. Repair shop removed the covering over brake lines and said they were rusted through. Towed to Mercedes dealership thinking it was part of recall and they said it wasn’t only the brake booster. Said nothing about rusted through brake lines! Someone’s going to get seriously injured driving not knowing their brake lines are rusted through.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2000
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
2011 — this page1000Routine
20100100Routine
200928310Do not drive
200821200Do not drive
200716220Do not drive
20061000Routine
20055000Routine
200322040Routine
200288180Routine
2001136070Routine
2000166060Routine
1999125020Routine
1998133050Routine

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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.