Recall Register

Mercedes-Benz E350: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 22 recall campaigns for the Mercedes-Benz E350, model years 2003 to 2017. NHTSA has 2,169 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 15 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. 20030
  2. 20040
  3. 20050
  4. 20064
  5. 20075
  6. 20084
  7. 20094
  8. 20104
  9. 20115
  10. 20127
  11. 20136
  12. 20148
  13. 20156
  14. 20165
  15. 20170
Mercedes-Benz E350: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2017 Mercedes-Benz E350 NHTSA page075%
2016 Mercedes-Benz E35055135%519,846
2015 Mercedes-Benz E35063121%668,239
2014 Mercedes-Benz E3508278192%956,654
2013 Mercedes-Benz E3506161111%799,163
2012 Mercedes-Benz E3507217150%894,743
2011 Mercedes-Benz E3505223154%1,264,106
2010 Mercedes-Benz E3504184127%1,101,511
2009 Mercedes-Benz E35046444%916,650
2008 Mercedes-Benz E3504173120%916,650
2007 Mercedes-Benz E3505349241%928,006
2006 Mercedes-Benz E3504399276%924,393
2005 Mercedes-Benz E350 NHTSA page01510%
2004 Mercedes-Benz E350 NHTSA page0107%
2003 Mercedes-Benz E350 NHTSA page075%

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

2,695 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 E350: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Fuel/Propulsion System198.1534
Air Bags147.3397
Fuel System, Gasoline85229
Engine69.8188
Service Brakes68.3184
Electrical System62167
Unknown or Other49.7134
Power Train46124
Suspension43.4117
Structure39.7107

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes-Benz E350, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2012, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercedes-Benz E350, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 211 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 284 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes-Benz E350: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/e350/. 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
Manufacturer in the recall file
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC

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 E350 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2014 with 8, 2012 with 7, 2015 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercedes-Benz E350 model year has the most complaints?
The 2006 model year, with 399 of the 2,169 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes-Benz E350 name?
Fuel/Propulsion System: 198.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 147.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel System, Gasoline: 85 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercedes-Benz E350?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.