Mercedes-Benz G 580 Ev, model year 2025. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 27 March 2026. 3,734 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2025 G580 vehicles. The incorrect wheel bolts may have been installed during vehicle manufacturing.
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: 2026040008. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V198 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 26V198 cover?
- Mercedes-Benz G 580 Ev, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2025 G580 vehicles. The incorrect wheel bolts may have been installed during vehicle manufacturing.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Incorrect wheel bolts can allow a wheel to loosen or detach from the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the wheel bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 24, 2026. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2026040008.
- 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 2026040008, 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: “Incorrect wheel bolts can allow a wheel to loosen or detach from the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V198 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Wheels:Lugs/Nuts/Bolts/Studs |
| Reported to NHTSA | 27 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES-BENZ G 580 EV |
What the notice says today
The defect
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2025 G580 vehicles. The incorrect wheel bolts may have been installed during vehicle manufacturing.
The consequence
Incorrect wheel bolts can allow a wheel to loosen or detach from the vehicle, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the wheel bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 24, 2026. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2026040008. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on April 2, 2026.
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 6bf0c1c763d62e6b029d749a6c9a565d…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 191 notices in the record whose component field names wheels. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 30 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 26V198, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v198/
The copy quoted above hashes to 6bf0c1c763d62e6b029d749a6c9a565d…. 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 26V198 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
b8dca158 - Consequence
ebb16a16 - 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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