Recall Register

Mercedes-Benz A 220: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 16 recall campaigns for the Mercedes-Benz A 220, model years 2019 to 2022. NHTSA has 77 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 4 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 201914
  2. 202010
  3. 20214
  4. 20222
Mercedes-Benz A 220: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2022 Mercedes-Benz A 2202316%310,699
2021 Mercedes-Benz A 2204947%896,811
2020 Mercedes-Benz A 2201020104%2,400,163
2019 Mercedes-Benz A 2201445234%2,404,877

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

125 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Mercedes-Benz A 220: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System18423
Unknown or Other17622
Engine15219
Back Over Prevention729
Fuel/Propulsion System729
Power Train567
Air Bags486
Steering405
Suspension405
Forward Collision Avoidance324

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes-Benz A 220, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 6 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercedes-Benz A 220, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2024, with 14 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 284 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes-Benz A 220: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/a-220/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Mercedes-Benz A 220 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2019 with 14, 2020 with 10, 2021 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercedes-Benz A 220 model year has the most complaints?
The 2019 model year, with 45 of the 77 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes-Benz A 220 name?
Electrical System: 184 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 176 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 152 per 1,000 component mentions.