Mercedes Benz E400, Mercedes Benz Gl350, Mercedes Benz Gl450, Mercedes Benz Gl550, Mercedes Benz Gl63, Mercedes Benz Gle350, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. and reported to NHTSA on 11 April 2017. 58,323 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2016 GLE300d 4Matic, E400 4Matic Coupe, GL63 AMG, GLE350, GLE350 4Matic, GLE350d 4Matic, GLE400 4Matic, GLE43 AMG Coupe 4Matic, GLE550e 4Matic, GLE63 AMG 4Matic, GLE63S AMG 4Matic and GLE63S AMG Coupe 4Matic vehicles, 2017 E300 4Matic and GLS63 AMG 4Matic vehicles, …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: 2017050013. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V241 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 17V241 cover?
- Mercedes Benz E400, Mercedes Benz GL350, Mercedes Benz GL450, Mercedes Benz GL550, Mercedes Benz GL63, Mercedes Benz Gle350, Mercedes Benz Gle550E, Mercedes-Benz AMG Gle43, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2016 GLE300d 4Matic, E400 4Matic Coupe, GL63 AMG, GLE350, GLE350 4Matic, GLE350d 4Matic, GLE400 4Matic, GLE43 AMG Coupe 4Matic, GLE550e 4Matic, GLE63 AMG 4Matic, GLE63S AMG 4Matic and GLE63S AMG Coupe 4Matic vehicles, 2017 E300 4Matic and GLS63...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If water enters the power steering control unit, the power steering assist may be deactivated, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will replace the connector and inspect the electric power steering rack, replacing the rack as necessary. These repairs will be performed free of charge. Remedy parts are currently unavailable.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall 2017050013, 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: “If water enters the power steering control unit, the power steering assist may be deactivated, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V241 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. |
| System at fault | Steering:Electric Power Assist System |
| Reported to NHTSA | 11 April 2017 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES BENZ E400, MERCEDES BENZ GL350, MERCEDES BENZ GL450, MERCEDES BENZ GL550, MERCEDES BENZ GL63, MERCEDES BENZ GLE350, MERCEDES BENZ GLE550E, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLE43, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLE63, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLS63, MERCEDES-BENZ E300, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE300D, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE350D, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE400 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If water enters the power steering control unit, the power steering assist may be deactivated, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will replace the connector and inspect the electric power steering rack, replacing the rack as necessary. These repairs will be performed free of charge. Remedy parts are currently unavailable. Interim notices informing owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed June 30, 2017. Owners will receive a second notice when remedy parts become available. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372.
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 745 notices in the record whose component field names steering. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 39 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Mercedes-Benz E400 recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GL350 recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GL450 recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GL550 recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GL63 recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle350 recalls: 13 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle550e recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG Gle43 recalls: 13 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG Gle63 recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG GLS63 recalls: 19 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz E300 recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle300d recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle400 recalls: 9 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 17V241, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v241/
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.
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 17V241 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
6a33e95b - Consequence
15383f4f - 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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