1999 Mercedes-Benz M-Class ML430 from North America - Comments

I am a "Consumer Reports" subscriber. "Consumer Reports" rates the M-Class as much worse than average.

"I am a "Consumer Reports" subscriber. "Consumer Reports" rates the M-Class as much worse than average."

For the latest statistics, you should use your login with your password on the website. I just did that. What you will see is the only year rated much worse than average is the redesign year of 2006. For 2007 and 2008, the M class gets "above average."

For the years 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, it gets "average"

For the years 2001 and 2004 it gets "worse than average"

Too bad to hear all the negativity, because Mercedes had these MLs built in the USA and I wonder if that is the root cause of the problem.

OMG!!! I have spent almost 6 thousand dollars (American, not Zimbabwe or some other country) on repairs to my 2000 ML that I paid 46 thousand dollars for (off the lot, again American dollars), did every change as per the manual, even did the transmission flush every 50 thousand miles (at the dealer) even though the manual says it has a lifetime sealed transmission, and now at 120K mikes, my transmission just died. My car is worth about 6 thousand on Craigslist, $4500 on trade, and Mercedes wants almost 9 thousand dollars (for a new transmission. I am going to tow this P-O-S down to my local landfill and burn the %^*#. Washing my hands of Mercedes Benz once and for all.