Recall · 23V463000
Mercedes-Benz USA recalled 2 models over electrical system
1,558
Vehicles covered
2
Models
3
Model years
June 30, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING
- The defect
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2022-2023 C300 and 2023 AMG C43 vehicles. The ground connections for the electrical wiring harness may not be secured properly, which can result in the electrical wiring harness overheating.
- What it can cause
- An overheated wiring harness can increase the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and repair the ground connections for the electrical wiring harness, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed August 11, 2023. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6373. MBUSA's numbers for this recall are 2023070016, 2023070017, 2023070018, and 2024070016.
- 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 1,558 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 63% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mercedes-Benz vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 52 times before this, most recently in June 2023 as 23V405000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 3 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 47 complaints with NHTSA, 6 of them before this campaign was filed. 12 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2022, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 11 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V481000 (latches/locks/linkages), 25V255000 (electrical system), 25V253000 (seat belts), 24V446000 (electrical system).
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 June 30, 2023 as campaign 23V463000. 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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