Recall Register

Mercedes-Benz GLK350: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Mercedes-Benz GLK350, model years 2006 to 2015. NHTSA has 904 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 9 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. 20060
  2. 20070
  3. 20080
  4. 20105
  5. 20114
  6. 20124
  7. 20136
  8. 20145
  9. 20154
Mercedes-Benz GLK350: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2015 Mercedes-Benz GLK3504114113%808,463
2014 Mercedes-Benz GLK3505104104%808,514
2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK3506137136%940,848
2012 Mercedes-Benz GLK3504167166%1,109,857
2011 Mercedes-Benz GLK3504133132%1,263,901
2010 Mercedes-Benz GLK3505241240%1,517,772
2008 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 NHTSA page011%
2007 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 NHTSA page055%
2006 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 NHTSA page022%

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

1,046 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 GLK350: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags596.6624
Fuel/Propulsion System68.872
Electrical System34.436
Steering32.534
Unknown or Other30.632
Service Brakes29.631
Structure25.827
Suspension23.925
Power Train2122
Vehicle Speed Control2122

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes-Benz GLK350, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2017, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercedes-Benz GLK350, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2019, with 256 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 284 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes-Benz GLK350: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/glk350/. 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 GLK350 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2013 with 6, 2014 with 5, 2010 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercedes-Benz GLK350 model year has the most complaints?
The 2010 model year, with 241 of the 904 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes-Benz GLK350 name?
Air Bags: 596.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel/Propulsion System: 68.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 34.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercedes-Benz GLK350?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.