Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWER TRAIN - AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION | |||
| 01/08/2000 | 1 | ||
| Consumer of a 2001 s430 v faulty sunroof, led side mirrors, and turn signals. customer states the vehicle has cost him a lot of money to repair and would like it to be fixed and be repaid in someway. **nar**kb the consumer stated the vehicle has had numerous problems such as persistent tail light and head light assembly failures, engine, fuel, accelerator pedal assembly, alternator, battery, instrument cluster, vacuum door pump, electrical, front suspension failures such as the airmatic shocks, the thrust arms, ball joints and the airmatic pump/relay. the transmission seals leaked, the washer fluid hose had to be replaced, the blower motor harness, fan belt, dimmer switch, trunk springs were all replaced. the plastic trim on the front seat was replaced due to cracking. the front door sill strip cover was replaced. the threshold bellows were coming apart, the side marker light was replaced. *jb | |||
| POWER TRAIN - DRIVELINE - DRIVESHAFT | |||
| 01/01/2002 | |||
| Vehicle will start to shake when traveling at 50 mph and higher. entire vehicle will shake, not just the steering. contacted dealer, and dealer replaced the driveshaft, but the problem still occurring. *ak | |||
| 03/06/2001 | 10 | 02/28/2001 | |
| 2001 model, dealer replaced driveshaft at 500 miles because vehicle was vibrating at speeds over 55 mph. it did not remedy situation. consumer then test drove 2 vehicles of same model, they vibrated as well. mercedes currently told consumer that this was a characteristic of vehicle.*ak | |||