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1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230. NHTSA has 59 complaints on file for this model year. 2 NHTSA investigations name 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 1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 59 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

59 complaints, 77 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.

  • 1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230
  • All 1999 vehicles
1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component1999 SLK230All 1999 vehiclesSLK230, all yearsMentions
Visibility298.742.916123
Exterior Lighting233.821.627818
Electrical System194.884.5117.115
Fuel System, Gasoline3928.629.33
Unknown or Other3920.834.13
Power Train3991.948.83
Equipment2618.49.82
Structure2652.648.82
Engine26924.42
Engine and Engine Cooling13120.2391

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 15.

Complaints that report a crash
2
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
2
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
5 Apr 2021

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 1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 8 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
PE05051Preliminary evaluationBRAKE LAMP FAILUREExterior Lighting / Brake Lights22 Sep 20052 Dec 200505V505000
PE99055Preliminary evaluationREFUELING SPIT BACKVehicle Speed Control / Linkages30 Aug 199917 Nov 1999

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. 19980
  2. 19990
  3. 20000
  4. 20010
  5. 20020
  6. 20030
  7. 20040

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. 1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/slk230/1999/. 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 SLK230 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Mercedes Benz SLK230, model years 1998 to 2004.
Which component do the complaints about the 1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230 name most often?
Visibility: 23 of 77 component mentions, or 298.7 per 1,000. For all 1999 vehicles the figure is 42.9 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1999 Mercedes Benz SLK230 open?
No. Each of the 2 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.