O.K. people, lets recap:

Mercedes-Benz argues that most of their reliability problems arise from multimedia, communications, entertaintment systems...

They claim they have "fix" most of the problems and switch suppliers from Bosch to Harman/Becker.

Remember what happened to the ill-fated MD-11 from Swissair? Accident investigations point to a problem of the multimedia system that developed an inflight fire. Swissair later removed or stopped using their multimedia systems in all of their aircraft.

Now, I ask, where is Swissair right now?

The new systems are manufactured by Harman/Becker?

Gosh, I feel so safe! My 1981 Becker Mexico Cassette unit (fitted to my 300TD) one day starting smoking badly after inserting a cassette. The unit was pulled from the car and opened to be serviced. The technician found transistors manufactured by Siemens on 1966 and discontinued on 1969. The Becker Mexico had a manufactured date of 10/1980. The unit was declared DOA and sacrificied (and take into account that the "option" costed US$1,500.00 in 1981!).

If Mercedes-Benz is not careful about its reliability problems, it might as well end up at the bottom of the Nouva Scotia sea like Swissair's MD-11.

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A. Rosich
CL 500, 1998
S 500 L, 1998
E 320 T, 1995 [Sadly sold ]