1999 Mercedes-Benz ML320 Engine cooling Problems

“1999 mercedes ML320 harmonic balancer. I was aware of the investigation being performed and had mercedes check the balancer in january. They said it's fine. On 9/6/04, it failed causing $1500 in damage. I was not injured because I knew not to drive the vehicle after failure. Mercedes needs to recall the harmonic balancer. It is failing on most vehicles and causing extensive damage.”

“While driving a loud noise came from the front of the engine. I took the car to the dealer and the crankshft pulley has failed making a hole in the oil pan. The pulley and the oil pan were replaced and found out that this kind of premature failures has happened with this model. The dealer will not pick up the full cost for repairs since the car had 85000 miles. I think mb realizes that they have an issue with this type of failures but will not do a recall.”

“I and my 7 year old daughter and her friend were entering my driveway on aug 14,2006, paused to open my garage door from the car and I was slowly moving in. All of a sudden car went out of my control in a flash that I did not even have time to react. It went and hit our other parked car in the garage with such a huge force that the second car literally went and tore the bedroom wall. Our second car is badly damaged on the front, back and one side (scraping a pole in garage) and wall needs fixing too. …”

“The harmonic balancer on my 1999 mercedes ML320 engine type m112 failed and resulted in $4,000 to repair. The part failed with no advanced warning. Even the mercedes dealership who performed the power steering recall two weeks prior to the failure did not spot any problem and they knew to be looking. I was lucky the failure occurred in my driveway backing out of the garage in stead of on the freeway with an immediate loss of power steering or destruction of the engine.”

“1999 Mercedes-Benz ML320 SUV. On thursday, december 19, my wife was driving the vehicle when suddenly the harmonic balancer failed (became detached), causing a complete loss of power to the vehicle, resulting in a disabled vehicle and leaving my wife and family stranded. The harmonic balancer is the main pulley wheel which is attached to the crankshaft. This pulley wheel in turn drives all other belt-driven items, such as power steering pump, AC, alternator, water pump, etc. …”