19V010000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the passenger or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2010 MERCEDES BENZ GLK350
5 safety recall campaigns, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 280 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns5
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations11 open
Owner complaints280
Complaints citing a crash19
Complaints citing a fire5
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 5 of 5
18V043000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
16V363000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
16V081000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
15V711000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE-INACTIVE
The malfunctioning air bag control unit may cause the air bags to unexpectedly deploy increasing the risk of injury and the possibility of a vehicle crash. Alternatively, the air bag control unit malfunction may cause the air bags to not deploy in the event of a crash necessitating air bag deployment, increasing the risk of occupant injury.
What owners report most
- 149AIR BAGS
- 26FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 14SUSPENSION
- 12UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 9VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 8STEERING
- 8ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 8STRUCTURE:BODY
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2010 MERCEDES BENZ GLK350s 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.