RECALL ALERT: Mercedes-Benz Recalls 1 MILLION Vehicles Do Faulty Air Bags

The safety recall covers 495,000 vehicles in the United States, 400,000 in Britain, 76,000 in Canada and a few hundred thousand in Germany, company officials said. The German automaker did not immediately have a complete worldwide total.

An electrostatic discharge, coupled with a broken clock spring and insufficient grounding of steering components, can lead to inadvertent deployment of the driver side front air bag in vehicles subject to the recall, the company said...

...The recalls covers some 2012-2018 model year A, B, C, and E-Class models and CLA, GLA and GLC vehicles.

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TheSteve - 10/17/2017 1:17:29 PM

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The Takata names lives on, even though the company is dead :-(

mpls - 10/18/2017 2:59:52 AM

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This one isn't a Takata issue.

It's a steering column issue that can break and cause the inflation of the airbag as detailed in this article.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/mercedes-benz-recall-400000-cars-steering-column-fault

mpls - 10/18/2017 3:05:03 AM

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Misleading little really.. all Merc has to do when it's a fault of itself is to hide behind Takata ?