Mercedes Is Recalling Thousands of Sedans, Crossovers, Coupes, and Convertibles
If you own a combustion-powered Mercedes-Benz from the 2024-2026 model years, your car may be under recall, says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, because the screen behind your steering wheel might go blank. There's no doubt that modern instrument cluster displays can perform far more tasks and with greater efficiency than the basic gauges we once glanced at to get a rough idea of how the car was doing, but when traditional dials or digital readouts stop working, the result is much the same: driving blind and slightly distracted. Happily, and unlike when something went wrong with old-school clusters, none of the 144,049 vehicles named in the recall have to install a new piece of hardware or visit a dealer to fix the issue.
Mercedes Names Six Different Coupes, Convertibles, Sedans, and Crossovers
The new recall impacts various individual models across the 2024-2026 model years, with certain AMG GT (192 platform), C-Class (206 platform), E-Class (214 platform), SL (232 platform), CLE (236 platform), and GLC (254 platform) vehicles potentially having faulty software of the infotainment control unit, which may result in "an increased number of system resets as part of an intended fallback behavior." The above models include their respective Benz, AMG, and Maybach variants, but if you'd like to see the full list, rather than checking your VIN on nhtsa.gov, that's included at the bottom of this article. You'd probably notice the issue soon enough, though; during these resets, the driver display may briefly stop showing certain information, which the NHTSA recall report describes as a condition that could increase the risk of a crash because the driver loses access to the full picture.
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The problem started in August last year, when Mercedes began rolling out new software meant to "improve overall system robustness." But in December, Mercedes started getting a lot of complaints from Korea and started a recall there, and although Mercedes had already begun rolling out an over-the-air (OTA) update to address the issue in the U.S. by last month, the NHTSA explained that other automakers who had experienced similar display problems had initiated recalls. Mercedes estimates that 62 percent of potentially affected vehicles have already been updated, but a recall should help get the word out to more owners and speed up the rollout before there are any crashes related to this problem.
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Dealers have been notified of the recall today, May 8, and owners will be notified by June 26. Until then, these are the specific models and years named in the new Mercedes recall:
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-AMG C 43 4MATIC
- 2025 Mercedes-AMG C 63 S E 4MATIC+
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG C 63 S E Performance 4MATIC+
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG CLE 53 4MATIC
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG CLE 53 4MATIC Cabriolet
- 2024-2025 Mercedes-AMG CLE 53 4MATIC+
- 2025 Mercedes-AMG CLE 53 4MATIC+ Cabriolet
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG E 53 4MATIC+
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG E 53 4MATIC+ Wagon
- 2025 Mercedes-AMG E 53 4MATIC+
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-AMG GLC 43
- 2025 Mercedes-AMG GLC 43 4MATIC Coupe
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG GLC 43 Coupe
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 S E 4MATIC+
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 S E 4MATIC+ Coupe
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG GT 43
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG SL 43
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG SL 55 4MATIC+
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG SL 63 4MATIC+
- 2026 Mercedes-AMG SL 63 S E Performance 4MATIC+
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-Benz C 300
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-Benz C 300 4MATIC
- 2024-2026 Mercedes-Benz CLE 300 4MATIC
- 2024-2026 Mercedes-Benz CLE 300 4MATIC Cabriolet
- 2024-2026 CLE 450 4MATIC
- 2024-2026 CLE 450 4MATIC Cabriolet
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-Benz E 350
- 2024-2026 Mercedes-Benz E 350 4MATIC
- 2024-2026 Mercedes-Benz E 450 4MATIC
- 2024-2026 Mercedes-Benz E 450 4MATIC All-Terrain
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 4MATIC
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 4MATIC Coupe
- 2025-2026 Mercedes-Benz GLC 350 E 4MATIC
- 2026 Mercedes-Maybach SL 680 4MATIC+
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This story was originally published May 9, 2026 at 5:15 AM.