Recall · 22V732000
Mercedes-Benz USA recalled 5 models over seats
59,574
Vehicles covered
5
Models
7
Model years
September 30, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS:MID/REAR ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2021 AMG GLS63, 2020-2022 GLS450 and GLS580 vehicles. Due to a manufacturing error, the locks on the third-row seatbacks may fail in the event of a crash.
- What it can cause
- A seat with a seatback lock failure may not properly restrain occupants, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the third-row seatback, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 18, 2022. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2022100011.
- 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.nhtsa.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 59,574 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 90% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2020 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mercedes-Benz vehicles have been recalled over the seats 19 times before this, most recently in October 2021 as 21V818000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 7 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 71 complaints with NHTSA, 18 of them before this campaign was filed. 3 of those name the seats, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2020, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 26 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V207000 (electrical system), 24V118000 (power train), 23V880000 (fuel system, gasoline), 23V733000 (visibility).
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 Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC with NHTSA on September 30, 2022 as campaign 22V732000. 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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