The Mercedes-Benz GL450 Reliability Rating is 1.5 out of 5.0, which ranks it 13th out of 19 for luxury fullsize SUVs. 1,541 which means it has poor ownership costs. The frequency and severity of repairs are both much higher than the average vehicle, which means you can expect more major repairs for the GL450. 631 for all vehicle models. Mercedes-Benz GL450 owners have to bring their vehicles into a repair shop for unscheduled repairs an average of 0.9 times per year, compared to an average of 0.8 times for luxury fullsize SUVs and 0.4 times for all vehicle models. The probability of a repair being a severe or major issue is 17% for the Mercedes-Benz GL450, compared to an average of 17% for luxury fullsize SUVs and 11% for all vehicle models. What is the RepairPal Reliability Rating? The Reliability Rating by RepairPal is a measurement of vehicle dependability based on the cost, frequency, and severity of unscheduled repairs and maintenance.
RepairPal combines an extensive proprietary database including millions of vehicle repair invoices with additional automotive statistics and predictive data science to develop the most genuine reliability metric in the industry. The Reliability Rating allows you to research dependability and ownership costs related to unscheduled repairs and maintenance in addition to comparing reliability factors against other vehicles and industry averages. Individual factors contributing to a vehicle's composite Reliability Rating include cost, frequency, and severity. The average total annual cost for unscheduled repairs and maintenance across all model years of a vehicle. Higher average cost alone does not necessarily mean a vehicle is less reliable. For example, parts and labor for your vehicle may be expensive, especially if it is a European luxury car, but if severe issues and annual average visits to the shop are low, that's a good indicator of a reliable car. The average number of times the vehicle is brought into the shop for unscheduled repairs and maintenance in a single year. This metric is calculated by tracking millions of unique vehicles over multiple years to determine an average number of visits per year for each make and model. Controls were included to omit small routine visits to shops such as for oil changes. The severity component to reliability measures the probability that a repair will be a major issue. An issue is considered severe if a repair requires immediate service, is prohibitively expensive, or presents a situation that is potentially dangerous or damaging. RepairPal combines multiple disparate data sets to identify and flag these issues and then rates the severity component for each vehicle relative to that of other models in our database.
Michaell mentioned this to me in the Porsche Lease Deals and Prices thread, because I was asked why I was still shopping when I had leased an Audi Q8 less than a month ago. I'm in my mid-twenties, and I car shop pretty much non-stop. I've always loved cars, especially German cars鈥擬ercedes-Benzes in particular, classic and modern. Since I was about 20, I have proceeded to purchase and lease vehicles at a ridiculous clip, especially for someone who seldom works on them personally. I'll do some minor stuff here and there, certainly beyond what an average driver does, but I don't have a workshop by any stretch. It probably became most evident to many of the people around me and to me that I had a bit of an issue when I purchased two cars within seven days of each other hundreds of miles apart. I did this while in a PHP/IOP program (an intensive outpatient program for mental/behavioral health) following the death of my mother. That was a few years ago now. I had told the clinicians at the program that I had intense urges to buy a car, and that I could not stay off of CarGurus.
If I recall correctly, their (all women) response was to tell me to keep off of CarGurus and to stop shopping. By the time I told them this, I had already visited a few dealerships looking for a particular Mercedes-Benz. I had also started negotiating to purchase a low mileage Volkswagen Phaeton that I had found on some website halfway across the country. I put a deposit down on the Phaeton, and I booked a flight and bought an Amtrak ticket to get me to the small town where this Phaeton was so that I could drive it nearly 1k miles home. I was going to leave early on a Saturday morning and try to be home by Sunday. This was going to fulfill a childhood dream. I was fascinated with the Phaeton when it arrived in the States. I think I was 9. I drew pictures of the car and would walk past the VW dealership that was just a few blocks from my house. I so wanted my mother to get one, but of course, she insisted upon getting the 2005 E500 when it came time to replace the 2001 E320.
Before I could travel there, I came across what I thought was the perfect Mercedes-Benz. It was a 'modern diesel,' and I had been wanting to experiment with a diesel car while still being able to use my phone for everything. For whatever reason, I wanted to be open with my father about this purchase and had him accompany me to the dealer to finalize the deal. This car would prove to be a bit of a disaster and was the car that I most recently got rid of. I concocted a story about needing to visit an aunt as an excuse for me to travel. I was so exhausted from traveling that I kept falling asleep at the wheel trying to drive from the east coast to Ohio to overnight with the aunt before I brought the car home to Illinois. She was the only person aware of the car purchase, and because she was semi-estranged at the time from the rest of the family, I knew she wouldn't say a word about the car or the visit. I told everyone at the program what I had done, and they were at a loss.
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