I am sure that there are similar stories with ANY brand car that has ever or ever will be built. I don't know what the production numbers are now, but out of such a large number there HAVE to be situations like this.

How many people who are happy with their car ever go post anywhere? It's been my experience in business that good news travels like a turtle while bad news runs at warp speed.

I'm happy with mine and only hope that everyone can enjoy their car and get as much good use as I have gotten from my C Class and most all my MB's for that matter. Even my 300E that tries my patience sometimes beats the heck out of lots of cars that I've driven and lots of cars owned by my friends. I won't start naming them, but most of them are not made in Germany.

My $0.02,