Mercedes-Benz Infant Restraint, Booster Seat. Published by Transport Canada as 1999169 on 21 September 1999. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says If a Mercedes-Benz Infant Restraint or Booster Seat is incorrectly positioned or moves several inches or more forward of the seat back in the front passenger seat of Mercedes-Benz "Baby Smart" equipped vehicles, it may not automatically deactivate the passenger front airbag. If either the child seat is not properly …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1999169
- Recall date
- 21 September 1999
- Make
- Mercedes-Benz
- Models
- Infant Restraint, Booster Seat
- Model years
- 1998 to 1999
- Vehicle class
- Child Car Seat
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 133
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
If a Mercedes-Benz Infant Restraint or Booster Seat is incorrectly positioned or moves several inches or more forward of the seat back in the front passenger seat of Mercedes-Benz "Baby Smart" equipped vehicles, it may not automatically deactivate the passenger front airbag. If either the child seat is not properly positioned, or moves away from the seat back, the resonators within the Infant Restraint and the Booster Seat may be outside the range of the antenna within the vehicle seat. Correction: Infant Restraints and Booster Seats will be replaced with redesigned versions which have the resonators moved closer to the vehicle seat back.
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 1999169.
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.
- 1999232 · 16 December 1999 · ML Class · Seats And Restraints
- 1999233 · 17 December 1999 · SL Class · Airbag
- 1999035 · 3 March 1999 · CLK Class · Seats And Restraints
- 2000122 · 19 May 2000 · S Class, CL Class · Electrical
- 1998220 · 10 November 1998 · E Class · Seats And Restraints
- 2001145 · 6 November 2000 · ML Class · Seats And Restraints
- 2001005 · 15 January 2001 · ML Class · Seats And Restraints
- 2001018 · 29 January 2001 · C Class · Lights And Instruments
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1999163 · 16 September 1999 · C70, S70, V70 · Seats And Restraints
- 1999164 · 16 September 1999 · Contour, Mystique · Seats And Restraints
- 1999161 · 31 August 1999 · Park Avenue, Aurora · Seats And Restraints
- 1999209 · 15 November 1999 · Grand Prix · Seats And Restraints
- 1999210 · 15 November 1999 · SC, SW, SL · Seats And Restraints
- 1999131 · 28 June 1999 · Silver Seraph, Arnage · Seats And Restraints
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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 240 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1999.
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