Recall Register

Mercedes Benz 240: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Mercedes Benz 240, model years 1979 to 2003. NHTSA has 82 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 8 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19790
  2. 19800
  3. 19830
  4. 19950
  5. 19990
  6. 20010
  7. 20020
  8. 20030
Mercedes Benz 240: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2003 Mercedes Benz 240027263%
2002 Mercedes Benz 240026254%
2001 Mercedes Benz 240 NHTSA page022215%
1999 Mercedes Benz 240 NHTSA page0110%
1995 Mercedes Benz 240 NHTSA page0220%
1983 Mercedes Benz 240 NHTSA page0220%
1980 Mercedes Benz 240 NHTSA page0110%
1979 Mercedes Benz 240 NHTSA page0110%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

116 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Mercedes Benz 240: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System163.819
Engine and Engine Cooling112.113
Fuel System, Gasoline94.811
Structure698
Vehicle Speed Control698
Air Bags698
Power Train698
Service Brakes, Hydraulic51.76
Unknown or Other43.15
Visibility43.15

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes Benz 240, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Mercedes Benz 240, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2002, with 16 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 284 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes Benz 240: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/240/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Mercedes Benz 240 model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which Mercedes Benz 240 model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 27 of the 82 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes Benz 240 name?
Electrical System: 163.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 112.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 94.8 per 1,000 component mentions.