2010 MERCEDES-BENZ E350 — Complaint #1814413
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:REAR filed May 24, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1814413 (ODI reference 11465892) concerns a 2010 MERCEDES-BENZ E350 and was filed on May 24, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 28, 2022. The vehicle had 68,060 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:rear, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same MERCEDES-BENZ E350 cohort independently describe similar suspension:rear failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2010 MERCEDES-BENZ E350 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2010 Mercedes-Benz E350. The contact stated while driving approximately 55 MPH and depressing the brake pedal, the rear wheels were going in a different direction. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a local mechanic to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the rear suspensions had rusted and fractured. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 68,060.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1814413 |
| ODI Number | 11465892 |
| Date Filed | May 24, 2022 |
| Failure Date | April 28, 2022 |
| VIN | WDDHF8HB8AA |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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