1) Runs rough in the morning, stalls sometimes- most days just barely stalls, shakes terribly when reversing.
2) Car doesn't shift to second in the AM while engine is cold.
3) When you turn the key in the ignition sometimes it does not start -recent problem.
4) Transmission fumbles for a gear also slipping in cold weather.
5) Power steering doesn't work in the AM after sitting all night.
6) Car sometimes lunges forward when going from park to drive.
7) A/C & Heat problem - temps are not consistent, sometimes A/C doesn't get hold, sometimes heat doesn't get hot. MB replaced the 'blower' in March '03 saying the blower failed. This car is a year and half old. I drove off the lot and it was 25 degrees that evening to realize a mile away that the heat didn't work AT ALL. IT was completely dead. I tried calling MB and no one answered their phones- I kept going to their vm. They should have been open for another 1/2 hour. I called the next day complaining and they told me to drive out to THEM (a 45 min drive) to fix. The following MOnday I brought it back and the manager (Scott Bolan, MB Westmont, IL) told me that they SECOND 'blower' was defective. Don't they check their cars before they return them to their customers?
8) Sunroof is very noisy!
9) Rear breaks squeak.

The MB service mgr (Scott Bolan) is nice, but tell me there is nothing wrong that my problems are NORMAL in the Mercedes cars (with the exception of the SUV). They claim their diagnostic tests show there is no problem. He explained to me on 2 separate occasions that Mercedes has to meet certain environmental guidelines and the car hesitates and runs kind of rough on a cold start engine b/c of the environmental guidelines in the US for fuel emmissions???? Sounds like B.S! Are they trying to appease me until my lemon law rights expire? I purchased my car brand new in October 2001 right off their lot. My car has only 17,000 miles.