Seats Problems of Mercedes Benz R500

The vehicle's rear drivers side brake or reverse light would not go off for a week (to my knowledge) and while sitting in the passenger side I turned on the heat warming device and there was no problem. It was after we had been shopping and returned to the vehicle did we notice a smell of something burning, but could not tell where it was coming from. Still unaware that a fire could start from the back of the vehicle, is when we realized that the cargo area of the vehicles side panel was in complete flames! thus, causing physical and mental injuries, smoke and property damage and a complete sense of insecurity. The vehicles main security feature never warned us of any potential life threatening danger as it would if my tire was low and the on call system failed to be helpful when trying to get help, for we were only able to hear the representatives but not communicate with them which led to 5 representative disconnect calls.

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Tl - the contact owns a 2006 Mercedes Benz R500. The contact stated that the driver's side heated seat failed and overheated, burning a hole through the seat fabric. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, who diagnosed that there was a defect within the heating unit and that the seat needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure but did not offer any assistance. The vehicle was not repaired. The VIN was not available. The failure mileage was 90,000 and the current mileage was 98,000. Kmj.

The heated seats caught on fire, burned passenger while driving. Seats in flames, started to smoke burning passenger clothing. Passenger turned off heated seats and stopped the vehicle for potential danger to others, this is a very dangerous problem mercedes is engineering cars than burn while driving, that have similar problem its sister car mercedes m series, which are comprised of same components, different body style, but overall components electrical, mechanical and interior are basically same, but m series is being recalled but not the less purchased r series, which has the same problems with power steering, electrical and so on, why mercedes recalling the m series when r series sister car 99% its copy?. This is a consumer¿s worst nightmare! one car is being ignored while other is acknowledged due to its higher sales. Both vehicles m series/r series should evaluated as same unit and not seperately, they are engineered from same blueprint, use 90% of same components. Told by service technician, that mercedes fixes power steering units for free on m series, while purchasing1 quart of power steering fluid for broken unit, seals blown prior to 49,000 miles with a clean car fax? the dealer, I purchased it from told me to bring it back to add more power steering fluid which lasted 8 months before, I realized the seals were broken and I purchased a lemon! the mercedes r series with clean car fax did indeed come with mechanical and electrical problems, since there are so few r series out there, I am doubtful that any kind of evaluation, analytical means would suffice a recall other, than using same m series recall for r series, that would be the only fair solution for the consumer. Mercedes should acknowledge it's part in poor engineering of these two vehicles as a whole, both vehicles many problems could have been avoidable.