Oldspanners
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It's a failure of quality control otherwise virtually every UK C class ever driven on UK roads would have the same problem.Going back to the OP, I can't think that MB would be liable (legally or morally) for a corrosion failure on an 11 year old car. The car has been used, we do not know if it has seen salt water, so yes, bad news, but I would just suck it up and pay. To put it in perspective, this is part of the suspension , and suspension parts need replacing all the time. It is part of the car ownership "experience".
Just playing devils advocate.
Mercedes used to have a publicity blurb something like Quality doesn't cost you, it pays you. In this case it would certainly pay them if anyone with this fault would "just suck it up and pay."