Mercedes-Benz Recalls 680,000 Cars for Sensotronic Braking System
Highlights form the article
M-B's Largest Ever Recall is Another Embarrassment in a Long Line of Recent Problems
Embarrassing? No doubt Mercedes-Benz is hardly happy about its latest recall, involving a total of 680,000 units equipped with the German brand's highly-touted Sensotronic advanced braking system.
Not only is this the largest product recall in the automaker's storied history, but the brake-by-wire technology has been sold as revolutionary, reinventing the way cars brake. The system that was to be failsafe now shows tendencies to merely fail. What's the problem? The system's hydraulic tank can develop bubbles that make brake failure possible, stated the automaker in a service bulletin.
Read the full article here