Mercedes-Benz 450. Published by Transport Canada as 1980141 on 24 October 1980. System: Powertrain.
What the notice says The plastic bushing of the control pressure linkage of the automatic transmission may deform and prevent the throttle lever from returning to the idle position.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Mercedes-Benz 450 in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Mercedes-Benz 450 is named on 7 American notices, 3 European, 2 Dutch and 17 Japanese. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The European register
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/0624/13: Mercedes-Benz GL350, GL450, GL500, GL63 AMG, notified by Germany
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/0450/19: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, notified by Germany
- EU Safety Gate alert INFO/00063/21: Mercedes-Benz Gle (BR 167): Gle 300 D 4matic, Gle 350 4matic, Gle 450 4matic, Gle 350 D 4matic, Gle 400 D 4matic, notified by Germany
The Dutch register
The Japanese register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1980141
- Recall date
- 24 October 1980
- Make
- Mercedes-Benz
- Models
- 450
- Model years
- 1976
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Powertrain
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 550
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
THE PLASTIC BUSHING OF THE CONTROL PRESSURE LINKAGE OF THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION MAY DEFORM AND PREVENT THE THROTTLE LEVER FROM RETURNING TO THE IDLE POSITION.
Transport Canada recorded this notice in capitals, as its system did for many years. It is reproduced here exactly as published.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1980141.
Mercedes-Benz elsewhere in this register
Mercedes-Benz is named on 477 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1979011 · 17 January 1979 · 300 · Engine
- 1982036 · 19 April 1982 · 230, 280, 300 · Steering
- 1977189 · 21 March 1978 · 280, 230, 450 · Fuel System
- 1983057 · 24 November 1983 · 1316, L1013, L1116 · Not Entered
- 1977052 · 29 August 1977 · 0309d · Not Entered
- 1983119 · 20 December 1983 · 450 · Not Entered
- 1977042 · 9 August 1977 · 0309d · Not Entered
- 1976148 · 24 January 1977 · 450 · Engine
The same system: Powertrain
823 notices in this register name Powertrain. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1980100 · 15 July 1980 · H8500, T6500 · Powertrain
- 1981035 · 13 March 1981 · L Series · Powertrain
- 1982068 · 24 August 1982 · P Series, C Series, K Series · Powertrain
- 1983039 · 26 March 1983 · K Series, G Series, C Series · Powertrain
- 1983108 · 7 December 1983 · Civic · Powertrain
- 1984080 · 25 June 1984 · S Series · Powertrain
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Mercedes-Benz: 477 in the register, and 167 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1980.
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