Mercedes-Benz A-Klasse, B-Klasse

The risk

The corrosion protection on the high voltage battery housing cannot be guaranteed to last for the whole lifetime of the vehicle. After the vehicle has been in use for a longer period of time, the high voltage battery housing could therefore corrode under certain specific environmental conditions. In this case, the sealing effect of the battery housing could then gradually be compromised, allowing moisture to penetrate the battery. This could lead to insulation failure, resulting in it being impossible to restart the vehicle once the engine has been switched off. Furthermore, this could increase the risk of fire. The product does not comply with the requirements laid down in the Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles.

Product: Car

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Manufacturer Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: Unknown

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Mercedes-Benz A-Class
• Mercedes-Benz B-Class

Other fire alerts in 2021

76 of the 549 motor vehicle alerts published in 2021 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2021

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2021

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Mercedes-Benz A-Class

More Mercedes-Benz alerts

614 EU Safety Gate alerts for Mercedes-Benz since 2006; the most were issued in 2021 (98).

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