2001 MERCEDES-BENZ S600 — Complaint #658793
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NHTSA Complaint about SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:AIR SUSPENSION:LINES AND FITTINGS filed February 24, 2008
NHTSA complaint #658793 (ODI reference 10218986) concerns a 2001 MERCEDES-BENZ S600 and was filed on February 24, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 22, 2008. The vehicle had 78,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Maryland based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as suspension:front:springs:air suspension:lines and fittings, 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 S600 cohort independently describe similar suspension:front:springs:air suspension:lines and fittings 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 2001 MERCEDES-BENZ S600 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2001 S600 ABC HOSE LEAK -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SO MY ABC HOSE IS LEAKING AND THE SHOP SAID THAT THEY WOULD NEED TO REMOVE THE TRANSMISSION TO REPLACE IT - ABOUT $3200 IN LABOR AND $1000 FOR THE PART, AND THAT IT MUST BE REPAIRED RIGHT AWAY BECAUSE IT MIGHT LEAK ON THE CAT AND START A FIRE. THERE IS A RECALL. I DON'T THINK MY INSURANCE CO. IS GOING TO APPRECIATE IT IF THEY HAVE TO COVER AN S600 BARBECUE. THE RECALL READS AS FOLLOWS: MAKE / MODELS : MODEL/BUILD YEARS: MERCEDES BENZ / CL CLASS 2000-2004 MERCEDES BENZ / S CLASS 2000-2004 MANUFACTURER : MERCEDES-BENZ USA, LLC. NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER : 07V263000 MFR'S REPORT DATE : JUN 07, 2007 COMPONENT: SUSPENSION POTENTIAL NUMBER OF UNITS AFFECTED : 19924 SUMMARY: ON CERTAIN VEHICLES, CORROSION MAY OCCUR IN THE INNER STEEL PORTIONS OF THE ACTIVE BODY CONTROL'S (ABC) HIGH PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION HOSE DUE TO EXTENSIVE EXPOSURE TO HUMIDITY CAUSING DETE
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 658793 |
| ODI Number | 10218986 |
| Date Filed | February 24, 2008 |
| Failure Date | February 22, 2008 |
| VIN | WDBNG78J91A |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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