Recall Register

Mercedes-Benz CLA 250: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 19 recall campaigns for the Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, model years 2018 to 2025. NHTSA has 99 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 8 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. 20189
  2. 20196
  3. 202011
  4. 20215
  5. 20220
  6. 20230
  7. 20240
  8. 20250
Mercedes-Benz CLA 250: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 NHTSA page018%
2024 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 NHTSA page0216%
2023 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 NHTSA page0648%
2022 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 NHTSA page018%
2021 Mercedes-Benz CLA 2505757%2,189,069
2020 Mercedes-Benz CLA 2501120162%2,362,553
2019 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250622178%1,553,124
2018 Mercedes-Benz CLA 250940323%2,048,636

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

142 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 CLA 250: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Unknown or Other154.922
Electrical System140.820
Engine119.717
Air Bags91.513
Fuel/Propulsion System70.410
Structure63.49
Steering42.36
Back Over Prevention42.36
Wheels35.25
Communication21.13

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 7 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercedes-Benz CLA 250, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2025, with 26 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 284 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes-Benz CLA 250: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/cla-250/. 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 CLA 250 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 11, 2018 with 9, 2019 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 model year has the most complaints?
The 2018 model year, with 40 of the 99 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes-Benz CLA 250 name?
Unknown or Other: 154.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 140.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 119.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercedes-Benz CLA 250?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.