Mercedes-Benz E 400 4matic, Mercedes-Benz E 400 4matic Cabriolet, Mercedes-Benz E 400 4matic Coupe, Mercedes-Benz E 400 4matic Wagon, Mercedes-Benz E 450 4matic, Mercedes-Benz E 450 4matic Cabriolet, model years 2018 to 2020. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 3 April 2026. 24,092 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2018 E 400 4MATIC Sedan, E 400 4MATIC Wagon, E 400 4MATIC Cabriolet, E 400 4MATIC Coupe, 2018-2020 Maybach S 560 4MATIC, S 560 4MATIC Coupe, S 450 4MATIC, 2019-2020 E 450 4MATIC Sedan, E 450 4MATIC Wagon, E 450 4MATIC Coupe, and E 450 4MATIC Cabriolet vehicles. The …
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What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V216 cover?
- Mercedes-Benz E 400 4Matic, Mercedes-Benz E 400 4Matic Cabriolet, Mercedes-Benz E 400 4Matic Coupe, Mercedes-Benz E 400 4Matic Wagon, Mercedes-Benz E 450 4Matic, Mercedes-Benz E 450 4Matic Cabriolet, Mercedes-Benz E 450 4Matic Coupe, Mercedes-Benz E 450 4Matic Wagon, model years 2018-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2018 E 400 4MATIC Sedan, E 400 4MATIC Wagon, E 400 4MATIC Cabriolet, E 400 4MATIC Coupe, 2018-2020 Maybach S 560 4MATIC, S 560 4MATIC Coupe, S 450 4MATIC, 2019-2020 E 450 4MATIC Sedan, E 450 4MATIC Wagon, E 450 4MATIC Coupe, and E 450 4MATIC...
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A sudden loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Dealers will inspect and replace the drive shaft as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed May 22, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
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 sudden loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V216 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Power Train:Driveline:Universal Joint |
| Reported to NHTSA | 3 April 2026 |
| Model years | 2018-2020 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES-BENZ E 400 4MATIC, MERCEDES-BENZ E 400 4MATIC CABRIOLET, MERCEDES-BENZ E 400 4MATIC COUPE, MERCEDES-BENZ E 400 4MATIC WAGON, MERCEDES-BENZ E 450 4MATIC, MERCEDES-BENZ E 450 4MATIC CABRIOLET, MERCEDES-BENZ E 450 4MATIC COUPE, MERCEDES-BENZ E 450 4MATIC WAGON, MERCEDES-BENZ S 450 4MATIC, MERCEDES-BENZ S 560 4MATIC, MERCEDES-BENZ S 560 4MATIC COUPE, MERCEDES-MAYBACH S 560 4MATIC |
What the notice says today
The defect
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2018 E 400 4MATIC Sedan, E 400 4MATIC Wagon, E 400 4MATIC Cabriolet, E 400 4MATIC Coupe, 2018-2020 Maybach S 560 4MATIC, S 560 4MATIC Coupe, S 450 4MATIC, 2019-2020 E 450 4MATIC Sedan, E 450 4MATIC Wagon, E 450 4MATIC Coupe, and E 450 4MATIC Cabriolet vehicles. The drive shaft universal joint may break, resulting in a sudden loss of drive power.
The consequence
A sudden loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the drive shaft as necessary, free of charge. Interim letters, notifying owners of the safety risk, were mailed May 22, 2026. Additional letters will be sent once the remedy is available. Owners may contact MBUSA customer service at 1-800-367-6372. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning April 10, 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 b0ab0157c5090fa810f846c5bbecf651…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Mercedes-Benz E 450 4matic recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Maybach S 560 4matic recalls: 7 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 26V216, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v216/
The copy quoted above hashes to b0ab0157c5090fa810f846c5bbecf651…. 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 26V216 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
9d645e71 - Consequence
b0193e05 - 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.
The wording we hold for 26V216 · how the whole register is watched
167 days after this was filed with the regulator, the register still carries no date for the letter to owners. The sixty days 49 CFR 577.7 allows have passed. A blank there is a gap in the record, which is not the same as a gap in the post: where this maker stands on the sixty days.
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