Steering Failed Problems of Mercedes Benz E350

Electric steering failed while driving on a city street. Almost crashed, wife's car, I was driving. She would never have been able to turn the steering wheel to safely get the car off the road. . Steering failure alert came on dash. Weekend, problem not diagnosed yet. A web site shows that there was a factory recall for this problem with cars built between Aug. 2013 to Aug. 2015. Bad electric motors. Car has 32,000 miles.

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Total steering failure. The steering locked up solid, and trying to turn the steering wheel was met with a hammering noise from under the front of the car. Fortunately, this occurred in our driveway - had it happened on the highway there would definitely been an accident. We took the car to our local repair shop (the mercedes dealer is a 1-1/2 hour drive from where we live) and they determined that the aluminum bolts holding the electric drive motor to the steering rack had corroded through and motor had fallen off. I found that there is a recall for this problem in canada, but our dealer (burlington vermont) said there is no recall in the u. S.

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