AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
An incorrect air bag may not function properly in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
5 safety recall campaigns, 4 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
An incorrect air bag may not function properly in a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
An incorrect passenger air bag may not provide adequate protection, increasing the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the passenger or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
If the driver air bag inadvertently deploys, it can increase the risk of injury and a crash.
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Two 2012 MERCEDES BENZ AMG C63s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.