Mercedes Benz Gle350, Mercedes Benz Gle550, Mercedes-Benz Amg Gle63, Mercedes-Benz Gle300d, Mercedes-Benz Gle400, Mercedes-Benz Gle63s, model years 2016 to 2017. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. and reported to NHTSA on 17 October 2017. 3,620 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2016 GLE300d 4Matic, GLE400 4Matic, GLE350 4Matic, GLE63 AMG, GLE63 AMG Coupe, GLE63S AMG and GLE63S AMG Coupe, and 2017 GLS450 4Matic, GLE550 4Matic, and GLE63 AMG 4Matic vehicles. These vehicles may have excess bulkhead insulation extending into the lower …
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The maker's own number for this recall: 2018020002. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 17V655 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 17V655 cover?
- Mercedes Benz Gle350, Mercedes Benz Gle550, Mercedes-Benz AMG Gle63, Mercedes-Benz Gle300D, Mercedes-Benz Gle400, Mercedes-Benz Gle63S, Mercedes-Benz GLS450, model years 2016-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2016 GLE300d 4Matic, GLE400 4Matic, GLE350 4Matic, GLE63 AMG, GLE63 AMG Coupe, GLE63S AMG and GLE63S AMG Coupe, and 2017 GLS450 4Matic, GLE550 4Matic, and GLE63 AMG 4Matic vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the passenger's frontal air bag does not function as designed in the event of a crash, the front seat passenger has an increased risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will remove any excess bulkhead insulation and rework the windshield bonding, as necessary, free of charge. Interim owner letters will be mailed in December 2017. Owners will receive a second notice when the remedy is available in late January 2018.
- 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 2018020002, 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 passenger's frontal air bag does not function as designed in the event of a crash, the front seat passenger has an increased risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 17V655 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Frontal:Passenger Side:Inflator Module |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 October 2017 |
| Model years | 2016-2017 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES BENZ GLE350, MERCEDES BENZ GLE550, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLE63, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE300D, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE400, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE63S, MERCEDES-BENZ GLS450 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the passenger's frontal air bag does not function as designed in the event of a crash, the front seat passenger has an increased risk of injury.
The remedy
MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will remove any excess bulkhead insulation and rework the windshield bonding, as necessary, free of charge. Interim owner letters will be mailed in December 2017. Owners will receive a second notice when the remedy is available in late January 2018. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2018020002. 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 Gle350 recalls: 13 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG Gle63 recalls: 21 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle300d recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle400 recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Gle63s recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GLS450 recalls: 20 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 17V655, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/17v655/
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 17V655 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
17bab76f - Consequence
0c85a8b1 - 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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