Recall · 21V042000
Daimler Vans USA recalled 2 models over electronic stability control (esc)
48,667
Vehicles covered
2
Models
14
Model years
February 3, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC):CONTROL MODULE
- The defect
- Daimler Vans USA, LLC (DVUSA) is recalling certain 2012-2018 Mercedes Benz Sprinter 3500 and Freightliner Sprinter 3500 vehicles upfitted into campers or recreational vehicles. The Electronic Stability Control (ESC) unit may become disabled on these vehicles.
- What it can cause
- If ESC becomes disabled, vehicle driving stability may be impacted under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- DVUSA will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear-wheel speed sensor with a more robust sensor, free of charge. DVUSA issued owners an interim notification on March 10, 2021. Owners may contact DVUSA customer service at 1-877-762-8267. DVUSA's number for this recall is NC3DREZAHA.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 48,667 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 89% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2012 to 2018, so the oldest vehicles on it were 9 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mercedes-Benz vehicles have been recalled over the electronic stability control (esc) 2 times before this, most recently in May 2017 as 17V308000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 7 of the 14 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 254 complaints with NHTSA, 187 of them before this campaign was filed. 56 of those name the electronic stability control (esc), the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in August 2012, 8 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 20V663000 (steering), 20V156000 (equipment), 20V155000 (equipment).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Daimler Vans USA, LLC with NHTSA on February 3, 2021 as campaign 21V042000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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