Forward Collision Avoidance Problems of Mercedes Benz E350

Mercedes Benz E350 owners have reported 16 forward collision avoidance related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 3 most common forward collision avoidance problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's automatic emergency braking (8 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's adaptive cruise control (5 problems). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.

Table 1. Forward Collision Avoidance related problems of Mercedes Benz E350


Recently reported Forward Collision Avoidance problems of Mercedes Benz E350

The Automatic Emergency Braking problem

The failure was when I hit the brakes hard in an emergency braking situation and the car very eratically and violently veered to the left. There was no warning and thank god there was no car coming in the left lane otherwise it would have been a broad side hit. I was doing 55 mph.   Read details...

The Adaptive Cruise Control problem

While driving, the steering from left to right started to get choppy or hard. With the cruise control on, I ran off the road because of the fight between the rack and pinion(steering wheel) and the cruise control.   Read details...

The Warnings problem

I was driving on north shepherd drive in houston, TX, at a speed of approximately 35 mph. While I was lightly braking to slow down for an upcoming intersection where I wished to turn, the car flashed 2 error lights--frontal collision avoidance system inoperable, and traction control system   Read details...




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