Mercedes-Benz Tourrider Business, Mercedes-Benz Tourrider Premium, model year 2026. Filed by Daimler Coaches North America and reported to NHTSA on 4 February 2026. 51 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Daimler Coaches North America (Daimler Coaches) is recalling certain 2026 Mercedes Benz Tourrider Business and Premium transit buses. The door control valve may not release the self holding mechanism, preventing the door from opening.
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: 72.40U26365A. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V063 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 26V063 cover?
- Mercedes-Benz Tourrider Business, Mercedes-Benz Tourrider Premium, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Daimler Coaches North America (Daimler Coaches) is recalling certain 2026 Mercedes Benz Tourrider Business and Premium transit buses. The door control valve may not release the self holding mechanism, preventing the door from opening.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A door that cannot be opened can prevent or delay passengers from evacuating during an emergency, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Daimler Coaches will replace the door control valve, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 2, 2026. Owners may contact Daimler Coaches' customer service at 1-416-624-3558. Daimler Coaches' number for this recall is 72.40U26365A.
- 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 72.40U26365A, 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 door that cannot be opened can prevent or delay passengers from evacuating during an emergency, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V063 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Daimler Coaches North America |
| System at fault | Latches/Locks/Linkages:Doors:Latch |
| Reported to NHTSA | 4 February 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES-BENZ TOURRIDER BUSINESS, MERCEDES-BENZ TOURRIDER PREMIUM |
What the notice says today
The defect
Daimler Coaches North America (Daimler Coaches) is recalling certain 2026 Mercedes Benz Tourrider Business and Premium transit buses. The door control valve may not release the self holding mechanism, preventing the door from opening.
The consequence
A door that cannot be opened can prevent or delay passengers from evacuating during an emergency, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Daimler Coaches will replace the door control valve, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 2, 2026. Owners may contact Daimler Coaches' customer service at 1-416-624-3558. Daimler Coaches' number for this recall is 72.40U26365A.
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 eabab36faa3bc4d367d30fd0b81ea5d9…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 237 notices in the record whose component field names latches/locks/linkages. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 49 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Mercedes-Benz Tourrider Business recalls: 5 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz Tourrider Premium recalls: 5 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 26V063, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v063/
The copy quoted above hashes to eabab36faa3bc4d367d30fd0b81ea5d9…. 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.
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- 26V278: 2026 CLA 350 4MATIC (EV) and CLA 250+ (EV)
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- 26V176: 2009-2020 Setra S417 and 2012-2019 Setra S407
- 26V172: 2026 AMG GLC43 4MATIC, GLC 300 4MATIC, GLC 300, and GLC 300 4MATIC Coupe
- 26V134: 2026 GLA 250
- 26V073: 2023-2024 EQB 250+, 2022-2024 EQB 300 4MATIC, and EQB 350 4MATIC
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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 26V063 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9cb03e8f - Consequence
60cece34 - 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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