Mercedes-Benz E500 by model year

546 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the Mercedes-Benz E500 across 5 model years. Choose a year for problems, recalls, fuel economy and crash ratings in one place.

See the best and worst years for the Mercedes-Benz E500

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
2003	143
2004	173
2005	168
2006	59

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Most reported	Recalls	MPG
2006	59	Fuel system (53%)	4	16 to 18
2005	168	Fuel system (46%)	3	16 to 18
2004	173	Fuel system (50%)	3	16 to 17
2003	143	Fuel system (29%)	3	17
1994				16