Mercedes-Benz C-class, E-class

The risk

The lower engine compartment cover lacks the necessary left-hand gap for the exhaust system. As a result, the exhaust system temperatures resulting from operation at full load could lead to the cover catching fire.

Product: Passenger car. Company recall code: 6290150

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 C-Class
• Mercedes-Benz E-Class

Other fire alerts in 2018

46 of the 419 motor vehicle alerts published in 2018 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2018

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2018

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 C-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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