Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. Published by Transport Canada as 2017070 on 10 February 2017. System: Powertrain.
What the notice says Certain 4x4 vehicles may fail to comply with requirements of CMVSS 301 - Fuel System Integrity. The vehicles were not fitted with a drive shaft catch strap at the time of assembly. In the event of a crash without the additional drive shaft catch strap, the fuel tank could become damaged, allowing a fuel leak to occur. …
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Mercedes-Benz SPRINTER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Mercedes-Benz SPRINTER is named on 85 American notices, 86 British and 80 European. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2017070
- Recall date
- 10 February 2017
- Make
- Mercedes-Benz
- Models
- Sprinter
- Model years
- 2015
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Powertrain
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 4
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain 4x4 vehicles may fail to comply with requirements of CMVSS 301 - Fuel System Integrity. The vehicles were not fitted with a drive shaft catch strap at the time of assembly. In the event of a crash without the additional drive shaft catch strap, the fuel tank could become damaged, allowing a fuel leak to occur. Fuel leakage, in the presence of an ignition source, could result in a fire. Correction: Dealers will retrofit the additional drive shaft catch strap.
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 2017070.
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.
- 2017069 · 10 February 2017 · Sprinter · Airbag
- 2017057 · 9 February 2017 · E Class, Gla Class, B Class · Airbag
- 2017058 · 9 February 2017 · E Class · Airbag
- 2017059 · 9 February 2017 · Gle Class, GL Class · Steering
- 2017060 · 9 February 2017 · Gle Class, GLS Class · Structure
- 2017061 · 9 February 2017 · Gle Coupe, Gle Class, GLS Class · Structure
- 2017062 · 9 February 2017 · E Class, GLC Class, Gla Class · Engine
- 2017063 · 9 February 2017 · E Class · Powertrain
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.
- 2017063 · 9 February 2017 · E Class · Powertrain
- 2017066 · 9 February 2017 · Grand Vitara · Powertrain
- 2017081 · 15 February 2017 · 300, Charger · Powertrain
- 2017088 · 17 February 2017 · Npr-Xd, Npr-Hd, NRR · Powertrain
- 2017049 · 3 February 2017 · 5 Series, Z4, 1 Series · Powertrain
- 2017113 · 3 March 2017 · X6, X5 · Powertrain
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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 638 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2017.
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