Mercedes-Benz SL Class by model year

58 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the Mercedes-Benz SL Class across 8 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
1996	2
1997	3
2003	23
2004	6
2005	3

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Recalls
2013		1
2009		1
2006		1
2005	3	1
2004	6	3
2003	23	3
1997	3	1
1996	2	2