Recall · 26V070000
Daimler Vans USA recalled the MERCEDES-BENZ Metris over air bags
52,360
Vehicles covered
1
Model
3
Model years
February 6, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS: AIR BAG/RESTRAINT CONTROL MODULE
- The defect
- Daimler Vans USA, LLC (DVUSA) is recalling certain 2020 and 2022-2023 Mercedes-Benz Metris right-hand-drive vehicles. Water may accumulate on the air bag control unit, which can cause the air bags not to deploy as intended.
- What it can cause
- An air bag that does not deploy as intended increases the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install a cover on the air bag control unit, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed beginning April 10, 2026. Owners may contact DVUSA customer service at 1-877-762-8267. DVUSA's number for this recall is VS2KORSRS. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning February 13, 2026.
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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| Mercedes-BenzMetris | 2020, 2022 and 2023 | 2022 |
How this campaign compares
At 52,360 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 89% 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 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Mercedes-Benz vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 49 times before this, most recently in December 2024 as 24V960000. 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 16 complaints with NHTSA, 16 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2020, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 8 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V463000 (equipment), 23V881000 (fuel system, gasoline), 23V444000 (fuel system, gasoline), 22V360000 (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 Daimler Vans USA, LLC with NHTSA on February 6, 2026 as campaign 26V070000. 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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