Recall Register

Mercedes-Benz GLS 450: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 21 recall campaigns for the Mercedes-Benz GLS 450, model years 2018 to 2020. NHTSA has 69 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 3 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. 20183
  2. 20192
  3. 202020
Mercedes-Benz GLS 450: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2020 Mercedes-Benz GLS 4502035152%2,608,912
2019 Mercedes-Benz GLS 45022087%358,742
2018 Mercedes-Benz GLS 45031461%1,544,024

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

109 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 GLS 450: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System201.822
Engine119.313
Unknown or Other91.710
Forward Collision Avoidance91.710
Power Train73.48
Fuel/Propulsion System64.27
Suspension556
Service Brakes556
Structure556
Back Over Prevention36.74

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes-Benz GLS 450, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 7 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercedes-Benz GLS 450, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2024, with 13 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 284 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes-Benz GLS 450: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/gls-450/. 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 GLS 450 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 20, 2018 with 3, 2019 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercedes-Benz GLS 450 model year has the most complaints?
The 2020 model year, with 35 of the 69 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes-Benz GLS 450 name?
Electrical System: 201.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 119.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 91.7 per 1,000 component mentions.