YearsTell

all vehicles · every E350 year · method

Mercedes-Benz E350 2009

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.07 per 1,000

better than this nameplate’s own median · from 3 complaints filed in the first three years, of 64 ever. 95% lower bound 0.00.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model yearPer 1,000Complaints
20080.218
20090.073
20100.2915
20110.138
20120.1711
20130.2215
20140.4732
20150.085
20160.2312

What owners describe

No phrase appears often enough in these complaints to describe them reliably.

When it breaks

16% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 84,000 miles, from 50 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10313322 · 10365514 · 10369384

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.