There are 4 very unlucky Mercedes-Benz GLB 250 house owners in the US who’re driving round in SUVs with out automobile stability management and ABS.
The automobile producer has revealed that the ESP management unit might have been broken within the logistics course of and that moisture might leak into the ESP unit and inner parts of it could possibly be broken additional. This implies features just like the automobile stability management and ABS is likely to be deactivated, whereas additionally rising the danger of a hearth attributable to an inner brief circuit.
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Mercedes-Benz started investigating the problem in October 2020 when GLB fashions with ESP malfunctions have been detected throughout the automobile end-of-line take a look at. It was later decided the ESP models have been broken throughout removing from the autos within the meeting plant and it was concluded that no autos within the discipline have been affected by the problem. Nevertheless, investigations from October 2021 decided that serial quantity knowledge from choose ESP models had exhibited malfunctions within the discipline. Manufacturing information then decided that impacted ESP models have been actually broken throughout dealing with within the plant after which put in.
The 4 Mercedes-Benz GLB fashions recalled have been manufactured between October 19, 2020 and October 20, 2020.
Homeowners of those autos will likely be notified of the voluntary recall marketing campaign earlier than November 11, 2022. Native dealerships will exchange the ESP unit freed from cost to resolve the problem whereas a change within the manufacturing course of implies that autos produced from October 26, 2020 can’t endure from the identical challenge.
