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SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:VACUUM
Reduced brake performance or brake failure can increase the risk of a crash.
2008 MERCEDES BENZ GL450
2 safety recall campaigns, 2 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 89 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
2 campaigns covering the 2008 MERCEDES BENZ GL450 carry NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns2
Park it2stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints89
Complaints citing a crash10
Complaints citing a fire1
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 2 of 2
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SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:POWER ASSIST:VACUUM
Reduced brake performance or brake failure can increase the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 21STEERING
- 14SUSPENSION
- 6AIR BAGS
- 5ENGINE
- 4UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 4SERVICE BRAKES
- 3SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 3ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2008 MERCEDES BENZ GL450s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.