Mercedes-Benz Amg G63, Mercedes-Benz G 550, Mercedes-Benz G 580, model year 2025. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 17 April 2025. 6,247 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2025 G 550, G 580, and AMG G 63 vehicles. The vehicle's electronic stability program (ESP) may display an incorrect warning light during an ESP system failure. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard …
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Mercedes-Benz's own number for this recall: 2025050002. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V254 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 25V254 cover?
- Mercedes-Benz AMG G63, Mercedes-Benz G 550, Mercedes-Benz G 580, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2025 G 550, G 580, and AMG G 63 vehicles. The vehicle's electronic stability program (ESP) may display an incorrect warning light during an ESP system failure.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An incorrectly displayed warning light can fail to alert the driver to critical safety information, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the ESP control unit software, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed June 17, 2025. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2025050002.
- 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 2025050002, 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: “An incorrectly displayed warning light can fail to alert the driver to critical safety information, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V254 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Electronic Stability Control (ESC):Control Module:Software |
| Reported to NHTSA | 17 April 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES-BENZ AMG G63, MERCEDES-BENZ G 550, MERCEDES-BENZ G 580 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2025 G 550, G 580, and AMG G 63 vehicles. The vehicle's electronic stability program (ESP) may display an incorrect warning light during an ESP system failure. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 126, "Electronic Stability Control Systems," and 101, "Control and Displays."
The consequence
An incorrectly displayed warning light can fail to alert the driver to critical safety information, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the ESP control unit software, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed June 17, 2025. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2025050002.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 1c804f698b938ac44e493ca91470bedf…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 25V254, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v254/
The copy quoted above hashes to 1c804f698b938ac44e493ca91470bedf…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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 25V254 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
a5624f59 - Consequence
e2c6a7fe - 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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