Freightliner Sprinter 3500, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 3500, model years 2012 to 2018. Filed by Daimler Vans USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 3 February 2021. 48,667 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Vans USA, LLC (DVUSA) is recalling certain 2012-2018 Mercedes Benz Sprinter 3500 and Freightliner Sprinter 3500 vehicles upfitted into campers or recreational vehicles. The Electronic Stability Control (ESC) unit may become disabled on these 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.
Dvusa's own number for this recall: NC3DREZAHA. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V042 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 21V042 cover?
- Freightliner Sprinter 3500, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 3500, model years 2012-2018.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Vans USA, LLC (DVUSA) is recalling certain 2012-2018 Mercedes Benz Sprinter 3500 and Freightliner Sprinter 3500 vehicles upfitted into campers or recreational vehicles. The Electronic Stability Control (ESC) unit may become disabled on these vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If ESC becomes disabled, vehicle driving stability may be impacted under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. DVUSA will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear-wheel speed sensor with a more robust sensor, free of charge. DVUSA issued owners an interim notification on March 10, 2021. Owners may contact DVUSA customer service at 1-877-762-8267. DVUSA's number for this recall is NC3DREZAHA.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Dvusa calls this recall NC3DREZAHA, 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 ESC becomes disabled, vehicle driving stability may be impacted under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V042 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Vans USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Electronic Stability Control (ESC):Control Module |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 February 2021 |
| Model years | 2012-2018 |
| Vehicles named | FREIGHTLINER SPRINTER 3500, MERCEDES-BENZ SPRINTER 3500 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If ESC becomes disabled, vehicle driving stability may be impacted under certain driving conditions, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
DVUSA will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear-wheel speed sensor with a more robust sensor, free of charge. DVUSA issued owners an interim notification on March 10, 2021. Owners may contact DVUSA customer service at 1-877-762-8267. DVUSA's number for this recall is NC3DREZAHA.
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 84 notices in the record whose component field names electronic stability control (esc). 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
- Freightliner Sprinter 3500 recalls: 62 US campaigns
- Mercedes Benz Sprinter 3500 recalls: 3 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 21V042, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v042/
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 21V042 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
e2e95a4b - Consequence
c2c29897 - 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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