Mercedes-Benz Gle350, Mercedes-Benz Gle450, model year 2020. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. and reported to NHTSA on 2 August 2019. 128 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2020 GLE350 4MATIC and GLE450 4MATIC vehicles. The connection between the fuel filler pipe and the fuel tank may have been improperly welded, allowing a fuel leak.
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: 2019090001. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V572 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 19V572 cover?
- Mercedes-Benz Gle350, Mercedes-Benz Gle450, model year 2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2020 GLE350 4MATIC and GLE450 4MATIC vehicles. The connection between the fuel filler pipe and the fuel tank may have been improperly welded, allowing a fuel leak.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will replace the fuel tank, free of charge. The recall began October 18, 2019. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2019090001.
- 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 2019090001, 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: “A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V572 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. |
| System at fault | Fuel System, Gasoline:Storage:Tank Assembly:Filler Pipe And Cap |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 August 2019 |
| Model years | 2020-2020 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES-BENZ GLE350, MERCEDES-BENZ GLE450 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A fuel leak in the presence of an ignition source increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will replace the fuel tank, free of charge. The recall began October 18, 2019. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2019090001.
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 470 notices in the record whose component field names fuel system, gasoline. 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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 19V572, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v572/
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 19V572 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c62a5fb2 - Consequence
2c1e78b5 - 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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