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1992 Mercedes-Benz 300SD Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Jun 17, 2014
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Jun 17, 2014

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 1992 Mercedes-Benz 300SD. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Electrical
Filed Jun 17, 2014

ENGINE WIRING HARNESS PART# 140 540 2005. THIS HARNESS HAS COMPLETELY DETERIORATED CAUSING THE ENGINE TO BE INOPERABLE. AFTER MONTHS OF RESEARCH ONLINE AND PHONE CALLS TO MB I HAVE NO PARTS AND NO ANSWERS TO THE PROBLEM. SO MANY OF THESE CARS HAVE HAD THESE PROBLEMS AND YET NO RECALL HAS BEEN ISSUED. WHY? IT IS A FIRE WAITING TO HAPPEN. THERE ARE MANY HARNESS AVAILABLE FOR VARIOUS MODELS WITH THE INFAMOUS "BIODEGRADABLE" WIRING PROBLEM. THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT PRICE RANGES ALSO, BUT THEY ARE AVAILABLE. AS FOR THE ONE THAT I NEED IT IS NOT AVAILABLE AT ANY COST. THIS IS ABOVE ALL THE MOST CONFUSING AND UNBELIEVABLE THING I HAVE HEARD CONCERNING AN ISSUE FOR WHICH THE MANUFACTURER KNOWS IS A PROBLEM. THE NHTSA NOT RECOGNIZING THIS AS A SAFETY PROBLEM IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. YOU WOULD THINK THE COMPANY THAT INVENTED THE AUTOMOBILE WOULD STEP UP AND GIVE A RESOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM. *TR

NHTSA ID
10598965
Incident
Mar 3, 2014
Mileage
195,560 mi

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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