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2001 Mercedes Benz S430: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2001 Mercedes Benz S430. NHTSA has 73 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2001 Mercedes Benz S430. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 73 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

73 complaints, 101 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.

  • 2001 Mercedes Benz S430
  • All 2001 vehicles
2001 Mercedes Benz S430: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2001 S430All 2001 vehiclesS430, all yearsMentions
Electrical System376.298.6375.938
Interior Lighting108.92.549.611
Suspension79.278.9109.98
Exterior Lighting59.431.185.16
Visibility59.435.131.96
Power Train39.691.960.34
Unknown or Other39.620.924.84
Air Bags29.767.124.83
Fuel System, Gasoline29.734.810.63
Structure29.769.6393

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 21.

Complaints that report a crash
2
Complaints that report a fire
4
Injuries in the complaints
5
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
7 Jul 2020

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 2001 Mercedes Benz S430, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2006, with 17 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2001 Mercedes Benz S430
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE05062Preliminary evaluationINSTRUMENT CLUSTER FAILUREInterior Lighting10 Nov 20058 Feb 200606V028000

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

  1. 20000
  2. 20010
  3. 20020
  4. 20030
  5. 20040
  6. 20050
  7. 20060

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2001 Mercedes Benz S430: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/s430/2001/. 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
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Mercedes Benz S430 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Mercedes Benz S430, model years 2000 to 2006.
Which component do the complaints about the 2001 Mercedes Benz S430 name most often?
Electrical System: 38 of 101 component mentions, or 376.2 per 1,000. For all 2001 vehicles the figure is 98.6 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2001 Mercedes Benz S430 open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.