Mercedes-Benz 500 by model year

121 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the Mercedes-Benz 500 across 5 model years. Choose a year for problems, recalls, fuel economy and crash ratings in one place.

Complaints by model year

Older model years have had longer to collect complaints, so a taller bar on an older year is not necessarily a worse year. The best and worst years page corrects for this.

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Model year	Complaints
1990	1
1992	20
1993	24
1994	8

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Recalls
1994	8	1
1993	24	1
1992	20	1
1991		1
1990	1	2