2009 Mercedes-Benz SLK300

Routine

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

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Unknown or Other	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Unknown or Other

Filed Jul 16, 201580,000 milesTX

I WAS DRIVING DOWN AN INTERSTATE WHEN MY POWER STEERING AND AC WENT OUT AND A BATTERY WARNING MESSAGE APPEARED. SHORTLY AFTER, ANOTHER WARNING APPEARED SAYING TO TURN OFF ENGINE. I HAD TO STOP ON THE SIDE OF THE INTERSTATE AND ENDED UP HAVING TO BE TOWED. THEY DETERMINED I NEEDED A NEW COMPRESSOR, NEW PULLEYS, AND A NEW BELT. AFTER IT WAS "FIXED" THE AC STILL WOULDN'T TURN ON AND IT WAS DIAGNOSED AS A FRONT SAM CONSOLE ISSUE. I GOT THE SAM REPLACED AND THEN AFTER DRIVING ABOUT 30 MILES, MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON AND THE CAR STARTED SHAKING. MA 10/22/2015 UPDATED 11/27/2017*CN

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2016

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Assessment
2016	2	4	Routine
2015	0	1	Routine
2009 — this page	1	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.