Recall Register

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 95 recall campaigns for the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500, model years 2007 to 2025. NHTSA has 438 complaints on file for this model line. 15 of the 18 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. 20071
  2. 20090
  3. 20106
  4. 20114
  5. 20122
  6. 20133
  7. 20146
  8. 201514
  9. 201615
  10. 20177
  11. 20189
  12. 201942
  13. 202022
  14. 202118
  15. 20227
  16. 20237
  17. 20244
  18. 20251
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 NHTSA page128%16
2024 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 250041249%1,690
2023 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 250071770%3,076
2022 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500740164%153,227
2021 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 25001845185%232,553
2020 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 25002280329%464,044
2019 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 25004267275%604,238
2018 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 250091458%56,327
2017 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 250071353%208,849
2016 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 25001528115%228,156
2015 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500142395%240,796
2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500638156%249,016
2013 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 250032186%169,112
2012 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 25002833%153,970
2011 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 250041458%160,737
2010 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 250061458%163,329
2009 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 NHTSA page014%
2007 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 NHTSA page114%3

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

663 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 Sprinter 2500: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System105.670
Engine93.562
Forward Collision Avoidance8959
Power Train87.558
Unknown or Other8657
Air Bags84.556
Steering73.949
Service Brakes57.338
Vehicle Speed Control54.336
Fuel/Propulsion System34.723

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 15 campaigns.
Complaints about the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2021, with 65 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Mercedes Benz: all 284 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/mercedes-benz/sprinter-2500/. 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 - DBA SPRINTER

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 Sprinter 2500 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2019 with 42, 2020 with 22, 2021 with 18. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 model year has the most complaints?
The 2020 model year, with 80 of the 438 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 name?
Electrical System: 105.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 93.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Forward Collision Avoidance: 89 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.