Woman’s AMG Logo Burn Video Joins Federal Class Action Against Mercedes

A woman’s bathroom-mirror warning to fellow Mercedes AMG owners has joined a newly filed federal lawsuit. In the video, she is taking off her makeup after a night out and describes getting back into her car after lunch with a friend. She says the raised metallic AMG logo on the seatback was so hot from sun exposure that it burned her skin.

She claims she was left with half of the AMG logo burned onto her body, and close-up shots in the video appear to support that.

S. District Court for the Central District of California. They make nearly identical allegations about the raised metallic AMG badge, saying it can get hot enough under sunlight to burn skin on contact. Attorney Rob Freund said on X that one plaintiff suffered a second-degree burn shaped like the AMG logo while driving his AMG E-Class to the gym in a tank top.

Second-degree burns are serious injuries. They can damage skin cells, cause blistering and need professional treatment. Research cited from the NIH shows car seat surfaces have reached 100°C in direct sunlight. The specific problem here is the metal badge acting as a heat concentrator.

Metal absorbs and radiates heat much faster than leather or fabric, so it can burn skin before a person has time to pull away.

Mercedes had not issued a public response to the video or the lawsuit as of this writing. Burns from hot car parts are not especially rare, but this one is unusually clear: the injury itself is shaped like the defendant’s name. For a premium brand like Mercedes AMG, a decorative badge that acts like a branding iron in summer parking lots could lead to expensive settlements instead of trials.