Recall · 23V444000
Daimler Vans USA recalled 5 models over fuel system, gasoline
20,500
Vehicles covered
5
Models
9
Model years
June 26, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP
- The defect
- Daimler Vans USA, LLC (DVUSA) is recalling certain 2021 Freightliner Sprinter and 2021-2023 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and Metris vehicles. The fuel pump may shutdown, which can result in a loss of drive power.
- What it can cause
- A loss of drive power can increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the fuel pump, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 1, 2023. Owners may contact DVUSA customer service at 1-877-762-8267. DVUSA's number for this recall is 4790205.
- 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 20,500 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 84% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2023, 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 fuel system, gasoline 14 times before this, most recently in March 2022 as 22V134000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 4 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 102 complaints with NHTSA, 26 of them before this campaign was filed. 7 of those name the fuel system, gasoline, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2021, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 24 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V070000 (air bags), 25V463000 (equipment), 24V930000 (electrical system), 23V881000 (fuel system, gasoline).
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 June 26, 2023 as campaign 23V444000. 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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