Recall Register

Mercedes Benz SLK320: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Mercedes Benz SLK320, model years 2001 to 2004. NHTSA has 40 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 4 model years have a page on this register. By recall campaigns, the Mercedes Benz SLK320 is number 281 of 287 model lines of Mercedes Benz on the 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. 20010
  2. 20020
  3. 20030
  4. 20040
Mercedes Benz SLK320: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2004 Mercedes Benz SLK320 NHTSA page0110%
2003 Mercedes Benz SLK320 NHTSA page0220%
2002 Mercedes Benz SLK320 NHTSA page011110%
2001 Mercedes Benz SLK320026260%

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

66 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 SLK320: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes242.416
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)181.812
Exterior Lighting181.812
Electrical System121.28
Service Brakes, Hydraulic45.53
Unknown or Other45.53
Power Train30.32
Vehicle Speed Control30.32
Steering30.32
Visibility/Wiper30.32

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes Benz SLK320, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Mercedes Benz SLK320, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2014, with 8 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 287 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes Benz SLK320: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/slk320/. 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
23 Oct 2026
Complaint file through
25 Oct 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 SLK320 model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which Mercedes Benz SLK320 model year has the most complaints?
The 2001 model year, with 26 of the 40 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes Benz SLK320 name?
Service Brakes: 242.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Electronic Stability Control (ESC): 181.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 181.8 per 1,000 component mentions.