2016 Mercedes-Benz AMG S63 Problems
Owner-reported complaints filed with NHTSA, grouped by component
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What this page shows
Everything below is an owner-reported complaint submitted to NHTSA about the 2016 Mercedes-Benz AMG S63, grouped by the component NHTSA recorded on the report. These are not confirmed defects, and they are not recalls. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a category with more reports in it is not evidence that a part is defective.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Reports by component
Ranked by how many owner reports name each component category
- Driver assistance150.0%
- Steering150.0%
Percentages are of component mentions. A single complaint can name more than one component, so these do not sum to the total complaint count.
Each component in detail
What the reports in each category say, in the owners' own words
Driver assistance
Reports naming forward-collision avoidance, lane keeping, back-over prevention, cruise control and related electronic driver-assistance systems.
From owner reports, verbatim
My steering deactivates and totally locks out while driving. I do get warning messages and it comes on when the steering deactivates and then goes out its like intermittent sometimes I wont have steering at all for a few minutes and sometimes it just goes in and out. MBUSA has an active recall on this very issue but my car even though it was built in the time frame they say other cars have been built they are not willing to fix it. It has been inspected twice and the dealer has verified the steering rack needs replacement, they still wont fix this. The message that comes on is power steering Malfunction see owners manual. When this locks out i get other items that wont work either like lane departure assist and blind spot inop lights. This started happening slowly roughly a year ago but it would only lock out once or twice a few days here and there and wouldn't do it for awhile, I brought it to the dealer then, which I showed them videos of what was happening and asked them to contact mbusa which they said they would call me and never did, I waited about a year while not driving it hoping maybe they would add my car to the recall and that never happened so I escalated the issue and called them myself, they asked me to bring it to the dealer again and I did they verified my problem and have said they wont fix it bc my car is not on the recall list. The recall my car should fall on is 16v899000 it is doing the exact thing this recall is worried about. I had to drive like this a few times bc I had no ride, driving like that when I know its about to lock out is a tiny bit better then when I am not expecting it and may need to again but it is not safe when trying to turn off an exit or a street it locks in the middle of turning or at the start of a turn and gets harder to control.
Too few reports in this category for a page of its own — they appear in the full complaint list.
Steering
Reports naming the steering system — racks, columns, power-steering assist and steering linkage.
From owner reports, verbatim
My steering deactivates and totally locks out while driving. I do get warning messages and it comes on when the steering deactivates and then goes out its like intermittent sometimes I wont have steering at all for a few minutes and sometimes it just goes in and out. MBUSA has an active recall on this very issue but my car even though it was built in the time frame they say other cars have been built they are not willing to fix it. It has been inspected twice and the dealer has verified the steering rack needs replacement, they still wont fix this. The message that comes on is power steering Malfunction see owners manual. When this locks out i get other items that wont work either like lane departure assist and blind spot inop lights. This started happening slowly roughly a year ago but it would only lock out once or twice a few days here and there and wouldn't do it for awhile, I brought it to the dealer then, which I showed them videos of what was happening and asked them to contact mbusa which they said they would call me and never did, I waited about a year while not driving it hoping maybe they would add my car to the recall and that never happened so I escalated the issue and called them myself, they asked me to bring it to the dealer again and I did they verified my problem and have said they wont fix it bc my car is not on the recall list. The recall my car should fall on is 16v899000 it is doing the exact thing this recall is worried about. I had to drive like this a few times bc I had no ride, driving like that when I know its about to lock out is a tiny bit better then when I am not expecting it and may need to again but it is not safe when trying to turn off an exit or a street it locks in the middle of turning or at the start of a turn and gets harder to control.
Too few reports in this category for a page of its own — they appear in the full complaint list.
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.
Elsewhere on this vehicle
Data sources
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation — owner-reported complaints and the components recorded on them
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