Mercedes introduced a recall for nearly all of the X-Class fashions offered in Australia resulting from a producing defect that will trigger the rear window to shatter.

The recall, revealed on the Australian authorities’s official web site, impacts 5,889 models of the pickup produced between 2018 and 2019. This quantity makes up for almost all of X-Class gross sales in Australia because the mannequin was solely accessible Down Below for lower than two mannequin years.

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In keeping with the announcement, “resulting from a producing defect, the rear window could have strain on it as a seal has shrunk inflicting the window to shatter”. Mercedes warns house owners that “within the occasion of a glass breakage it will break into small, compact items” which may enhance the chance of an accident “inflicting critical damage or demise to automobile occupants and/or different street customers”.

Homeowners of affected autos ought to contact their nearest dealership the place the difficulty can be mounted totally free. For X-Class fashions with a retrofitted Mercedes-Benz cover, the dealerships may even verify whether or not rubber blocks had been put in within the rear space.

The X-Class debuted in 2017 but it surely was discontinued in 2020 resulting from poor gross sales. The short-lived pickup that shared its underpinnings with the Nissan Navara was dropped with no successor, with Mercedes abandoning the pickup phase.

H/T to CarExpert