Recall · 25V253000
Mercedes-Benz USA recalled 2 models over seat belts
46
Vehicles covered
2
Models
6
Model years
May 2, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT
- The defect
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2022-2025 C 300, and 2023-2024 AMG C 43 vehicles. The driver-side seat belt cover may not be properly installed on the seat belt tensioner, which can cause the seat belt anchor to come loose.
- What it can cause
- A loose seat belt may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and repair the seat belt covers, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 16, 2025. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2025040012.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 888-327-4236 (TTY 888-275-9171) or go to 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 46 vehicles this is a small campaign: 79% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2025, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mercedes-Benz vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 20 times before this, most recently in June 2023 as 23V464000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 58 complaints with NHTSA, 43 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2022, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 12 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V481000 (latches/locks/linkages), 26V281000 (electrical system), 25V255000 (electrical system), 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 May 2, 2025 as campaign 25V253000. 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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