Mercedes-Benz 500SL by model year

11 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the Mercedes-Benz 500SL across 4 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	3
1991	3
1992	5

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Recalls	MPG
1993			16
1992	5	1	11 to 14
1991	3	1	13 to 14
1990	3	1	14