Several months ago, heck maybe even a year by now I had the HB fail on my ML320. I have a few posts many pages prior to this that I posted right after the failure occurred.
Well, for whatever it is worth one of my personal friends who works in the service department at the MB dealer here just told me that it is looking quite favorable that we will recover our money for damages that occurred due to a faulty HB. We'll just have to see if anything materializes out of this whole process.
I was one of those 55 registered complaints with the NHTSA as well as one of the 503 formal complaints to MB. Up to the point that my HB failure occurred EVERY single service and repair had been done by MB and they still refused to give me a good faith and it was out of warranty by just under 10K miles. I took it to an indie for half the amount that MB wanted for the repair. I must say that just like all of you I am VERY let down in the quality of this heap of crap.
My wife and I have a baby on the way (actually he was due 3 days ago, but he's a late arrival) and I am heavily relying on this vehicle to get us to and from the hospital 18 miles from my house...now GUESS WHAT!!....it's having problems again. Now it is not firing on all cylinders....GEESH!!!! OK, now I am just venting, lol.

Regards,
John