Mercedes-Benz Amg C43 4matic, Mercedes-Benz Amg C63 S E 4matic+, Mercedes-Benz Amg C63 S E Performance 4matic+, Mercedes-Benz Amg Cle53 4matic, Mercedes-Benz Amg Cle53 4matic Cabriolet, Mercedes-Benz Amg Cle53 4matic+, model years 2024 to 2026. Filed by Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 1 May 2026. 144,049 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2024-2026 AMG GT, C-Class, E-Class, SL, CLE, and GLC vehicles. The infotainment control unit may reset while the vehicle is in motion and cause the instrument panel display to go blank.
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: 2026050004. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V281 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 26V281 cover?
- Mercedes-Benz AMG C43 4Matic, Mercedes-Benz AMG C63 S E 4Matic+, Mercedes-Benz AMG C63 S E Performance 4Matic+, Mercedes-Benz AMG Cle53 4Matic, Mercedes-Benz AMG Cle53 4Matic Cabriolet, Mercedes-Benz AMG Cle53 4Matic+, Mercedes-Benz AMG Cle53 4Matic+ Cabriolet, Mercedes-Benz AMG E 53 4Matic+, model years 2024-2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2024-2026 AMG GT, C-Class, E-Class, SL, CLE, and GLC vehicles. The infotainment control unit may reset while the vehicle is in motion and cause the instrument panel display to go blank.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An instrument panel display that fails to show critical safety information, such as the speedometer and warning lights, increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the infotainment control unit software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 29, 2026. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2026050004. 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. Mercedes-Benz calls this recall 2026050004, 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 instrument panel display that fails to show critical safety information, such as the speedometer and warning lights, increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V281 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC |
| System at fault | Electrical System: Instrument Cluster/Panel |
| Reported to NHTSA | 1 May 2026 |
| Model years | 2024-2026 |
| Vehicles named | MERCEDES-BENZ AMG C43 4MATIC, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG C63 S E 4MATIC+, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG C63 S E PERFORMANCE 4MATIC+, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG CLE53 4MATIC, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG CLE53 4MATIC CABRIOLET, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG CLE53 4MATIC+, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG CLE53 4MATIC+ CABRIOLET, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG E 53 4MATIC+, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG E 53 4MATIC+ WAGON, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG E 53 E 4MATIC+, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLC43, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLC43 4MATIC COUPE, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLC43 COUPE, MERCEDES-BENZ AMG GLC63 S E 4MATIC+ |
What the notice says today
The defect
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (MBUSA) is recalling certain 2024-2026 AMG GT, C-Class, E-Class, SL, CLE, and GLC vehicles. The infotainment control unit may reset while the vehicle is in motion and cause the instrument panel display to go blank.
The consequence
An instrument panel display that fails to show critical safety information, such as the speedometer and warning lights, increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the infotainment control unit software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 29, 2026. MBUSA's number for this recall is 2026050004. 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 May 8, 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 c3e445b9403664443e088f232542b5ae…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Mercedes-Benz AMG C43 4matic recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Mercedes-Benz AMG GLC43 recalls: 27 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 26V281, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v281/
The copy quoted above hashes to c3e445b9403664443e088f232542b5ae…. 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 26V281 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
0322eb6f - Consequence
7f1dada8 - 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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