markgm

That's a lot of airbags: https://www.cars.com/articles/merced...1420683409110/ I'm curious to see which cars aren't impacted from the model and years listed.

thefisch

Glad they are taking their time with this. Wonder when we will get notices.

dbldpr

Knowing Mercedes benz in a year or so.

Johnny Rad

I was disappointed not to see affected model data, yet.

That's the most important element to this story, right?!

Come on, Mercedes. Do tell.

Johnny Rad

Just thinking this may be a wonderful opportunity to swap out the steering wheel to a custom wheel or at least swap out the trim to rid myself of that boring / squeaky black plastic "Airbag" trim piece... with Merc potentially picking up most (all?) of the labor to get at the airbag, why not?! Fingers crossed.

Arrie

Wonder how they deal with the severely hurt or even dead people from the bad air bags so I hope they don't wait for too long...

cetialpha5

Someone else posted the list. Looks like 2010-2011 E350's, E550's and E63's.

http://www.ibtimes.com/takata-air-ba...makers-2302283

I suppose some new nicknames might be in order. Explode-o-matic? Or Death-o-matic?

So far MB says no one has been killed yet by a defective one, but with a recall this massive, it'll probably take a while for them to have replacement parts.

thefisch

Looks like there will be another loaner in my future.

threeMBs

Thanks for posting. If that list is accurate, then 2012-on cars are not effected.

KEY08

Ah, crap.

SteveE400

One of the industry news feeds I get at work showed E-Class through 2014 as potentially affected. The manufacturer of the assembly (Continental Automotive) says it will be quite a while before they have enough parts for all of the recall repairs to be completed.


Capacity is an industry-wide issue -- the manufacturers who made the recalled parts/assemblies do not have enough capacity to continue to fill orders for parts for new cars and to produce for the recalls as well. Not a good place for consumers. . .

PeterUbers

Excellent idea!! I want that trim too

threeMBs

Regarding Continental AG's airbags recall, so far I've seen only 2008-9 C and GLK effected. I've seen nothing for 2014 Es yet. Keep in mind that Takata's airbags are deployed in many more cars worldwide than Continental's. IMHO, people should not be freaking out (unless one holds stock in those two companies that is).

jahquan3

I'm guessing it'll be awhile before this is an official recall where as MB contacts us? I don't see it on the MBUSA site and to be honest that site seems to never be updated properly in regards to my VIN.

El Cid

Kind of a conflict here. You want it replaced quick as possible, but you also want to make sure you get a good airbag. As opposed to one that has been rushed through production, off to the dealership and then slapped on.
Incidentally, 2015 was the highest ever for new car sales in US. All those airbags have to come from somewhere, in addition to cars being made now.
Drive carefully, don't text or use cellphone or even take yours eyes off the road.

Cao Black

Here's a Car & Driver article, dated 02/10/2016.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/mercede...akata-airbags/

Up until now almost all articles I saw were showing MY2010-2011 E-class. That doesn't appear to be the case any longer. I was also surprised to read that passenger and side bag could be recalled also. What a task.

cetialpha5

That's the older article that doesn't actually mention specific years, just gives you the whole range of all the potential models. Makes sense too because if it were all the classes mentioned in that range, that would well exceed the 705k mentioned.

cadetdrivr

FWIW, from the linked article (10 Feb 2016):

cetialpha5

Right, that's just a range. This is a more specific list from another article on the same date:
Note how it starts with 2005 C class vehicles and ends with 2014 SLS class cars.
I'm more inclined to believe this list because I could this adding up to 704k vehicles. If you include the entire range of all vehicles, it would be way over 704k.

Affected Mercedes-Benz vehicles:

2009-2010 Mercedes-Benz ML Class ML320 BlueTec 4Matic

2011-2011 Mercedes-Benz R-Class R350 BlueTec 4Matic

2009-2011 Mercedes-Benz ML-Class ML350

2009-2011 Mercedes-Benz ML-Class ML550 4Matic

2009-2011 Mercedes-Benz ML-Class ML350 4Matic

2009-2011 Mercedes-Benz ML-Class ML63 AMG

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz ML-Class ML450 4Matic Hybrid

2011-2012 Mercedes-Benz GL-Class GL350 BlueTec 4Matic

2009-2010 Mercedes-Benz GL-Class GL320 BlueTec 4Matic

2009-2012 Mercedes-Benz GL-Class GL550 4Matic

2009-2012 Mercedes-Benz GL-Class GL450 4Matic

2007-2008 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class SLK280

2007-2008 Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class SLK55 AMG

2011-2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS-Class SLS AMG Coupe

2012-2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS-Class SLS AMG Cabriolet

2013-2014 Mercedes-BenzSL SLS-Class SLS AMG GT

2013-2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS-Class SLS AMG GT Cabriolet

2005-2005 Mercedes-Benz C-Class C230 Kompressor

2006-2007 Mercedes-Benz C-Class C230

2006-2007 Mercedes-Benz C-Class C350

2005-2005 Mercedes-Benz C-Class C320

2008-2011 Mercedes-Benz C-Class C300

2008-2011 Mercedes-Benz C-Class C350

2009-2011 Mercedes-Benz C-Class C63 AMG

2008-2011 Mercedes-Benz C-Class C300 4Matic

2010-2012 Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class GLK350

2010-2012 Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class GLK350 4Matic

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E350 Coupe

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E550 Coupe

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E350 Cabriolet

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E550 Cabriolet

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E350

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E550

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E63 AMG

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E350 4Matic

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E550 4Matic

2010-2011 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E350 4Matic|

2009-2010 Mercedes-Benz R-Class R320 CDI 4Matic

2012-2012 Mercedes-Benz R-Class R350 4Matic

2009-2011 Mercedes-Benz R-Class R350 4Matic

2011-2012 Mercedes-Benz R-Class R350 BlueTec 4Matic

2006-2007 Chrysler Crossfire (a product of Daimler’s past relationship with Chrysler)

cetialpha5

Here's a link to a chart of Mercedes US sales, the bulk of their sales are probably the classes mentioned:

http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2012/10...sa-canada.html

They were basically selling 225k cars in 2005 up to 372k cars in 2014 in the US.

CEB

As of today, the affected E class models are 2010, 2011 and early 2012's

looney100

Where do I find that wheel frame?

cetialpha5

It keeps getting worse, they've now expanded the recall and have added more cars to the list.

E-class
2012–2017 E-class coupe, 2012–2017 E-class cabriolet

http://blog.caranddriver.com/mercede...akata-airbags/

thefisch

yet when will folks start getting notices...

Peachy

I got my notice like last week, they just told me to do nothing until they come up with a solution, at which point they'll send me another letter to tell me to go to the dealer to get all the work done for free.

FYI: Driver-side Airbag Module, 2010 E550