Mercedes Benz Amg R63, Mercedes Benz Gl320, Mercedes Benz Gl350, Mercedes Benz Gl450, Mercedes Benz Gl550, Mercedes Benz Ml320, model years 2006 to 2012. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 26 April 2024. 15,604 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2006-2012 ML, GL, and R-Class vehicles. Please refer to MBUSA's recall report for specific vehicle model details. Moisture may accumulate and cause corrosion in the brake booster housing unit, which can result in reduced brake performance or brake failure.
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.
Mbusa's own number for this recall: 2024050001/2. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 24V298 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 24V298 cover?
- Mercedes Benz AMG R63, Mercedes Benz GL320, Mercedes Benz GL350, Mercedes Benz GL450, Mercedes Benz GL550, Mercedes Benz ML320, Mercedes Benz ML350, Mercedes Benz ML450, model years 2006-2012.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2006-2012 ML, GL, and R-Class vehicles. Please refer to MBUSA's recall report for specific vehicle model details.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Reduced brake performance or brake failure can increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to drive their vehicles until the remedy has been performed. Dealers will remove the rubber sleeve, inspect the brake booster, and as necessary, replace the brake booster. All repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on May 24, 2024.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Mbusa calls this recall 2024050001/2, 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: “Reduced brake performance or brake failure can increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 24V298 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Service Brakes, Hydraulic:Power Assist:Vacuum |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 April 2024 |
| Model years | 2006-2012 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES BENZ AMG R63, MERCEDES BENZ GL320, MERCEDES BENZ GL350, MERCEDES BENZ GL450, MERCEDES BENZ GL550, MERCEDES BENZ ML320, MERCEDES BENZ ML350, MERCEDES BENZ ML450, MERCEDES BENZ ML500, MERCEDES BENZ ML550, MERCEDES BENZ R320, MERCEDES BENZ R500, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG ML63, MERCEDES-BENZ R350 |
This is not an ordinary campaign.
- Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.
What the notice says today
The consequence
Reduced brake performance or brake failure can increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Owners are advised not to drive their vehicles until the remedy has been performed. Dealers will remove the rubber sleeve, inspect the brake booster, and as necessary, replace the brake booster. All repairs will be performed free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on May 24, 2024. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MMUSA's number for this recall is 2024050001/2. This recall is an expansion of previous recall number 22V-315.
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 583 notices in the record whose component field names service brakes, hydraulic. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 37 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Mercedes-Benz GL350 recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GL450 recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz GL550 recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz ML350 recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz ML450 recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz ML550 recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG ML63 recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz R350 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 24V298, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/24v298/
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 24V298 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
aa49f9c5 - Consequence
ba430bff - 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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