2001 Mercedes Benz SLK320: recalls and complaints
NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2001 Mercedes Benz SLK320. NHTSA has 26 complaints on file for this model year. The Mercedes Benz SLK320 has 4 model years on the register. No model year has more recall campaigns than the 2001 Mercedes Benz SLK320. Complaints about this model year, by the year NHTSA received them: 1 in 2024 and 1 in 2025. For complaints about all vehicles, the count rose by 9.7%, from 67,371 in 2024 to 73,903 in 2025.
This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.
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 SLK320. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 26 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
26 complaints, 47 component mentions.
A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.
| Component | Mentions |
|---|---|
| Service Brakes | 12 |
| Electronic Stability Control (ESC) | 10 |
| Exterior Lighting | 8 |
| Electrical System | 6 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 2 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 2 |
| Steering | 2 |
| Unknown or Other | 2 |
| Power Train | 1 |
| Wheels | 1 |
The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 11.
- Complaints that report a crash
- 1
- Complaints that report a fire
- 1
- Injuries in the complaints
- 0
- Deaths in the complaints
- 0
- Date of the newest complaint
- 21 Oct 2025
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.
Investigations
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.
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.
- 20010
- 20020
- 20030
- 20040
A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
- NHTSA page of the 2001 Mercedes Benz SLK320The recalls, the complaints and the investigations that NHTSA shows for this model year.
Cite this page
Recall Register. 2001 Mercedes Benz SLK320: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/slk320/2001/. 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
- 23 Oct 2026
- Complaint file through
- 25 Oct 2026
- First complaint in the file
- 1 Jan 1995
The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.
Questions
- How many recall campaigns does the Mercedes Benz SLK320 have for all model years?
- NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Mercedes Benz SLK320, model years 2001 to 2004.
- Which component do the complaints about the 2001 Mercedes Benz SLK320 name most often?
- Service Brakes: 12 of 47 component mentions.
- Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2001 Mercedes Benz SLK320 open?
- The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.