Service Brakes Related Problems of the 1998 Mercedes Benz SL500

Table 1 shows one common service brakes related problems of the 1998 Mercedes Benz SL500.

Table 1. Service Brakes related problems of Mercedes Benz SL500

Problem Category Number of Problems
Service Brakes problems
1

Service Brakes problem

Driving at 40 mph when all of a sudden engine dies. Car becomes dead, very dangerous , at night middle lane of pacific coast hwy. Cant use breaks, everything is dead! cant steer nothing. Could have been killed. This has happened before twice. Now I'm afraid to drive my car if this happens when im on the freeway, thats a problem, endangering me and everyone around. This is nuts because I pride myself on keeping my car in tip top shape always and this is undetectable . But expensive to try and find out until I saw that 800 other people have had the exact same thing! what wrong with this picture?.


Service Brakes related problems in other Mercedes Benz SL500 model year vehicles:



SL500 Service Bulletins
SL500 Safety Recalls
SL500 Defect Investigations