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An inaccurate vehicle location may delay emergency responders, increasing the risk of injury.
5 safety recall campaigns, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 27 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 inaccurate vehicle location may delay emergency responders, increasing the risk of injury.
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.
A loss of steering can increase the risk of a crash.
Leaking oil may drip onto a hot engine surface, increasing the risk of a fire. Additionally, the leaking oil may be a road hazard for other vehicles, increasing the risk of a crash.
Two 2014 MERCEDES BENZ GLK250s 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.