Mercedes Benz E250, Mercedes Benz Glk250, Mercedes Benz Ml250, model years 2014 to 2015. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. and reported to NHTSA on 1 December 2014. 4,871 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (Mercedes) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 E250 BlueTec, E250 BlueTec 4Matic, GLK250 4Matic BlueTec, and 2015 ML250 4Matic BlueTec vehicles manufactured February 28, 2014, to November 10, 2014. In the affected vehicles, oil may leak from around the chain tensioner gasket area.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, 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's own number for this recall: 2014120002. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 14V762 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 14V762 cover?
- Mercedes Benz E250, Mercedes Benz GLK250, Mercedes Benz ML250, model years 2014-2015.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (Mercedes) is recalling certain model year 2014-2015 E250 BlueTec, E250 BlueTec 4Matic, GLK250 4Matic BlueTec, and 2015 ML250 4Matic BlueTec vehicles manufactured February 28, 2014, to November 10, 2014.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- 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.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Mercedes will notify owners, and dealers will replace the chain tensioner gasket, free of charge. The recall began on December 19, 2014. Owners may contact Mercedes customer service at 1-800-367-6372. Mercedes' number for this recall is 2014120002.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mercedes-Benz calls this recall 2014120002, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “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.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 14V762 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. |
| System at fault | Engine And Engine Cooling:Engine:Diesel |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 December 2014 |
| Model years | 2014-2015 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES BENZ E250, MERCEDES BENZ GLK250, MERCEDES BENZ ML250 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
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.
The remedy
Mercedes will notify owners, and dealers will replace the chain tensioner gasket, free of charge. The recall began on December 19, 2014. Owners may contact Mercedes customer service at 1-800-367-6372. Mercedes' number for this recall is 2014120002.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 588 notices in the record whose component field names engine and engine cooling. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 47 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Mercedes-Benz E250 recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GLK250 recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz ML250 recalls: 6 US campaigns
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 14V762, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/14v762/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 14V762 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
32a46ae0 - Consequence
e4d1d263 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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