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Mercedes-Benz is recalling over 310,000 cars, according to filings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday, due to an issue that could cause a micro-switch in their door locks to corrode\u2014which could potentially cause the vehicles to fail to detect open doors, and make the parking brake and \u201cAuto-Park\u201d features stop functioning automatically.<\/p>\n
A corroding micro-switch in driver\u2019s side doors in some Mercedes could cause issues with the automatic parking brake.<\/p>\n
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Mercedes is recalling a total of 310,667 vehicles with model years between 2019 through 2026, which could have the corrosion issue in their driver\u2019s side doors.<\/p>\n
If the parking brake fails, it could cause vehicles to roll away\u2014however, Mercedes is unaware of any cases of this happening so far, according to an earlier recall report<\/a>.<\/p>\n Owners of impacted vehicles can take their vehicles to a dealer to install a free replacement door lock, according to the NHTSA\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n Which Cars Are Impacted?<\/p>\n The door lock issue extends to multiple Mercedes model lines, according to the NHTSA\u2019s notice. These include some Mercedes A-class and C-class sedans, GLC SUVs and CLE coupes. A full list of impacted models and years is available on the NHTSA\u2019s notice<\/a>, and owners can also search their VIN or license plate number on the administration\u2019s database<\/a>.<\/p>\n Key Background<\/p>\n Mercedes has issued multiple recalls so far in 2026. In February, the luxury German automaker recalled<\/a> over 11,000 electric vehicles over a high voltage battery issue. Mercedes also issued a warning for owners to park impacted cars outside, as the battery issue could cause fires in both moving and parked vehicles. In May, Mercedes recalled another<\/a> 144,000 vehicles over an issue with their instrument display panels. This issue was fixed by installing a software update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Mercedes-Benz is recalling over 310,000 cars, according to filings from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20951],"tags":[8365,3622,22592,25583],"class_list":["post-64375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mercedes-benz","tag-mercedes","tag-mercedes-benz","tag-nhtsa","tag-recalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}