Passenger car – Mercedes-Benz “C-Class”
Serious risk Fire
- Product
- Passenger car
- Brand
- Mercedes-Benz (612 alerts)
- Name
- C-Class
- Type / model
- Type-approval numbers: e1*2001/116*0431*31 to 46, e1*2001/116*0457*25 to 37, Types: 204, 204 K
- Batch numbers
- The affected vehicles were manufactured between 1 March 2014 and 28 February 2018. (official alert record)
- Barcode
- 5499723
- Barcodes listed
- 5499723 (official alert record)
- Description
- Vehicles equipped with a four-cylinder petrol engine. Model series: BR 205.
- Production dates
- The affected vehicles were manufactured between 1 March 2014 and 28 February 2018.
- Risk
- The maximum permissible operating temperature of individual diodes on the alternator rectifier bridge could be exceeded and the diodes could subsequently fail. Consequently, an improper flow of current from the on-board electrical system battery through the alternator to the vehicle earth could occur.As a result, the windings in the alternator stator could be heated to such an extent that an outbreak of fire cannot be ruled out.
- Measures
- Recall of the product from end users · by the manufacturer
- Company recall code
- 5499723
- Recall page
- http://www.mercedes-benz.de
- Notifying country
- Germany
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Alert type
- Consumer
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