1998 Mercedes Benz S420

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the equipment › recreational vehicle/trailer. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Equipment › Recreational Vehicle/Trailer1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Equipment › Recreational Vehicle/Trailer
Filed May 29, 2013NJ

TL-THE CONTACT OWNS A 1998 MERCEDES BENZ S420. THE CONTACT STATED THAT HIS FOUR ALLOY WHEEL RIMS WERE NOT SYMMETRICAL, UNEVEN, AND HE EXPERIENCED VIBRATING WHILE DRIVING. ST *TR

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1995
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19994000Routine
1998 — this page1000Routine
19961000Routine
19955000Routine

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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.