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Mercedes-Benz AMG C43 — what the federal data shows

2016–2024 · 0 federal complaints on file

Not enough complaints have been filed about this model to break them down by engine honestly — that needs at least 50 for a single engine. Everything we do have on it is below, from the same federal sources as every other page.

Mercedes-Benz AMG C43
Photo: Ssu · CC BY-SA 4.0

Ownership profile

Each axis is this model's percentile within its own segment — comparing a pickup's fuel economy against a compact car's would say nothing. Built from EPA test data.

Fuel economy17Running cost11Low emissions14Cabin space6Cargo space22Displacement83
22 MPG Fuel economy$3,450/yr Running cost406 g/mi Low emissions81 cu ft Cabin space10 cu ft Cargo space3.0 L Displacement

Recalls on this model

Unlike everything above, recalls are issued for the whole model, not per engine — NHTSA publishes them by make, model and year. These are defects the manufacturer confirmed and filed federally, which makes them a useful counterweight to owner-reported complaints.

31 recalls · covering 2016–2024 · 2 fixable with a software update

Electrical System 8Seats 5Seat Belts 4Fuel System, Gasoline 3Structure 3Air Bags 2Back Over Prevention 1Exterior Lighting 1
All recalls, with campaign numbers
YearsComponentNHTSA campaign
2023–2024Seat Belts › Front25V253000
2023–2023Electrical System › Wiring24V371000
2023–2024Electrical System › Wiring › Fuses And Circuit Breakers24V115000
2023–2023Fuel System, Gasoline › Delivery › Fuel Pump23V880000
2017–2020Structure › Body › Roof And Pillars23V854000
2023–2023Electrical System › Wiring23V462000
2023–2023Electrical System › Wiring23V463000
2021–2023Fuel System, Gasoline › Delivery › Fuel Pump23V445000
2019–2021Electrical System › Software22V365000
2019–2021Back Over Prevention › Display Function22V232000
2020–2020Fuel System, Gasoline › Fuel Injection System › Fuel Rail21V961000
2019–2020Exterior Lighting › Headlights21V509000
2021–2021Seats › Mid/Rear Assembly › Head Restraint21V406000
2021–2021Seats21V230000
2017–2020Structure › Body › Roof And Pillars21V197000
2017–2021Electrical System › Software21V058000
2017–2020Seat Belts › Front › Retractor21V032000
2020–2020Communication20V068000
2018–2019Electrical System › 12V/24V/48V Battery19V586000
2019–2019Forward Collision Avoidance › Sensing System › Radar19V540000
2017–2018Seats19V130000
2019–2019Parking Brake18V909000
2018–2018Air Bags › Sensor › Occupant Classification18V838000
2019–2019Seat Belts18V839000
2019–2019Electrical System › Software18V761000
2017–2018Structure › Body18V456000
2017–2018Seats18V207000
2018–2018Seats › Front Assembly › Recliner18V150000
2016–2018Air Bags › Frontal17V627000
2017–2017Steering › Electric Power Assist System17V574000
2017–2017Seat Belts › Pretensioner17V251000

Recall repairs are free, always — any franchised dealer, regardless of the car's age, mileage, or how many owners it has had. A great many cars are driving around with recalls nobody ever redeemed.

More recalls does not mean a worse car. Recall counts rise with sales volume and model complexity, and a manufacturer that recalls promptly looks worse than one that drags its feet. Read what the recalls were for, not how many there were.

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Method, sources and limitations

How this was built

  1. Source: NHTSA public complaint database (api.nhtsa.gov), retrieved 2026-08-16. Every complaint carries the first 11 characters of the vehicle's VIN.
  2. Those partial VINs were decoded through NHTSA's vPIC service to identify the exact engine — 98.2% resolved successfully. This is how the data gets to engine level; model-level ratings cannot do this.
  3. Percentages are the share of component mentions, not of complaints. One complaint can name several components, so the figures describe what a given engine's complaints are about — they do not sum to a failure rate.

What this does not tell you

  • This is not a reliability ranking. Complaint totals track how many were sold, not how often they fail. Nobody publishes per-engine sales volume, so comparing totals between engines would be misleading. Read each engine's own breakdown; don't race them against each other.
  • Engines with fewer than 50 complaints are omitted — too small to say anything honest about.
  • Complaints are self-reported by owners. They skew toward problems that are alarming or expensive, and toward vehicles under active recall attention.

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