Recall · 24V070000
Mercedes-Benz USA recalled 3 models over exterior lighting
15,502
Vehicles covered
3
Models
8
Model years
February 2, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING:HEADLIGHTS
- The defect
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2019-2022 GLC 300, 2020 GLC 350e, and 2020-2022 AMG GLC 43 vehicles. The headlights may be incorrectly adjusted too high and create a glare for oncoming traffic. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 108, "Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment."
- What it can cause
- Incorrectly aimed headlights can reduce the visibility of oncoming traffic, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the headlight adjustment and correct it if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 23, 2024. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372.
- 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 15,502 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 82% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mercedes-Benz vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 24 times before this, most recently in December 2023 as 23V853000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 6 of the 8 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 245 complaints with NHTSA, 102 of them before this campaign was filed. 16 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2019, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 18 other recalls published here, the newest being: 23V854000 (structure), 23V445000 (fuel system, gasoline), 22V494000 (power train), 22V365000 (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 February 2, 2024 as campaign 24V070000. 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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