2000 Mercedes Benz SL320

Routine

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

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Vehicle Speed Control › Linkages1
100

What owners reported

Newest filings
Vehicle Speed Control › LinkagesCrash
Filed May 1, 2001NJ

RPMS INCREASE AAT 20MPH. DRIVER HAS TO PUT VEHICLE INTO NEUTRAL TO STOP. DEALER HAS INSPECTED VEHICLE.*AK CONSUMER STATES HE WAS ADVISED BY DEALERSHIP THAT VEHICLE IS OPERATING AS DESIGNED,THE PROLONGED STOPPING DISTANCE CAUSED CONSUMER TO HIT ANOTHER VEHICLE, CONSUMER ALSO REPORTS THAT ENGINE FAILS TO SHUT DOWN.*JB

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1995
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
2000 — this page1000Routine
19992000Routine
19983000Routine
19976110Routine
19964000Routine
199516020Routine
19942000Routine

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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.