Mercedes Benz B 250e, Mercedes Benz C250, Mercedes Benz C300, Mercedes Benz C63 Amg, Mercedes Benz C63s Amg, Mercedes Benz E250, model years 2012 to 2018. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. and reported to NHTSA on 6 October 2017. 495,290 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. (MBUSA) is recalling these vehicles: 2014-2018 CLA250, CLA250 4Matic, CLA45 AMG 4Matic, 2015-2018 GLA250, GLA250 4Matic, GLA45 AMG 4Matic, C300 4Matic, C63S AMG, 2012-2014 C250, C350, C300 4Matic, E550 4Matic, 2013-2014 C63 AMG, 2012-2015 C250 Coupe, C350 Coupe, C63 AMG Coupe, 2013-2015 C350 …
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: 2017110011. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V627 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 17V627 cover?
- Mercedes Benz B 250E, Mercedes Benz C250, Mercedes Benz C300, Mercedes Benz C63 AMG, Mercedes Benz C63S AMG, Mercedes Benz E250, Mercedes Benz E400, Mercedes Benz E400 Hybrid, model years 2012-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. (MBUSA) is recalling these vehicles: 2014-2018 CLA250, CLA250 4Matic, CLA45 AMG 4Matic, 2015-2018 GLA250, GLA250 4Matic, GLA45 AMG 4Matic, C300 4Matic, C63S AMG, 2012-2014 C250, C350, C300 4Matic, E550 4Matic, 2013-2014 C63 AMG, 2012-2015 C250 Coupe, C350 Coupe, C63 AMG...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the driver air bag inadvertently deploys, it can increase the risk of injury and a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will add sufficient grounding to the steering components, free of charge. The recall began in December 6, 2017. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-877-496-3691.
- 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 2017110011, 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 the driver air bag inadvertently deploys, it can increase the risk of injury and a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V627 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Frontal |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 October 2017 |
| Model years | 2012-2018 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES BENZ B 250E, MERCEDES BENZ C250, MERCEDES BENZ C300, MERCEDES BENZ C63 AMG, MERCEDES BENZ C63S AMG, MERCEDES BENZ E250, MERCEDES BENZ E400, MERCEDES BENZ E400 HYBRID, MERCEDES BENZ E550, MERCEDES BENZ E63, MERCEDES BENZ GLK350, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG C43, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG C63, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG C63S |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the driver air bag inadvertently deploys, it can increase the risk of injury and a crash.
The remedy
MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will add sufficient grounding to the steering components, free of charge. The recall began in December 6, 2017. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-877-496-3691.
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 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Mercedes-Benz B 250e recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz C250 recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz C300 recalls: 26 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz E250 recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz E400 recalls: 15 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz E400 Hybrid recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz E550 recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz E63 recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GLK350 recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG C43 recalls: 31 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG C63 recalls: 30 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG C63s 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 17V627, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v627/
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 17V627 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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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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