Recall Register

Mercedes Benz GL450: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Mercedes Benz GL450, model years 2007 to 2017. NHTSA has 417 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 11 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. 20072
  2. 20082
  3. 20093
  4. 20103
  5. 20113
  6. 20123
  7. 20133
  8. 20143
  9. 20153
  10. 20165
  11. 20172
Mercedes Benz GL450: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2017 Mercedes Benz GL450213%58,374
2016 Mercedes Benz GL45051334%92,362
2015 Mercedes Benz GL45031847%33,999
2014 Mercedes Benz GL45032155%34,020
2013 Mercedes Benz GL45033798%34,207
2012 Mercedes Benz GL450346121%1,077,057
2011 Mercedes Benz GL450355145%1,077,057
2010 Mercedes Benz GL450342111%1,077,057
2009 Mercedes Benz GL45031540%1,077,057
2008 Mercedes Benz GL450254142%365,898
2007 Mercedes Benz GL4502115303%365,898

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

556 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 GL450: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags170.995
Suspension107.960
Electrical System100.756
Seats98.955
Engine70.139
Steering64.736
Power Train64.736
Unknown or Other55.831
Service Brakes4525
Service Brakes, Hydraulic43.224

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes Benz GL450, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2017, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercedes Benz GL450, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 72 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 284 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes Benz GL450: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/gl450/. 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 GL450 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2016 with 5, 2015 with 3, 2014 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercedes Benz GL450 model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 115 of the 417 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes Benz GL450 name?
Air Bags: 170.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 107.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 100.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercedes Benz GL450?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.