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What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Inadvertent air bag deployment can increase the risk of injury for an occupant in the front passenger seat, and increase the possibility of a vehicle crash.”

36vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 22 February 2021owners told 26 March 2021today
The defect reached the regulator on 22 February 2021. Owners were written to 32 days later, on 26 March 2021. The median across the 14,851 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign was quicker than most.
Campaign21V102
Filed byMercedes-Benz USA, LLC
System at faultAir Bags:Frontal
Reported to NHTSA22 February 2021
Model years2021-2021
Vehicles namedMERCEDES-BENZ GLA250

What the notice says today

The consequence

Inadvertent air bag deployment can increase the risk of injury for an occupant in the front passenger seat, and increase the possibility of a vehicle crash.

The remedy

MBUSA will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the ground connection for the passenger air bag and correct it, if necessary, free of charge. The recall began March 26, 2021. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2021020037.

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 844 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.

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 21V102 on 23 August 2026, they were:

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.

The wording we hold for 21V102 · how the whole register is watched

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