Hi, received my recall today, what’s so annoying MB have had my car 2 days this week and now the earliest I can get booked in is the 22 October 🤬

 

I have had the same letter today. My car is due its second service end of the month so it will be sorted then

 

I also received recall letter today I’m sure MB must have been aware of the issue when it was at the dealership last week for a service which is a tad annoying

 

I have left early this morning so will be interesting to find out if I have a letter when I get back. My car too has been with them over the last week... will be rather frustrating.

 

Interesting.. I've not had the letter, but my car has been back twice to have the aircon fixed within the first 1000 miles of ownership

 

I received the letter this morning as well. Booked in for next Monday. I am assuming this hasn’t caused any issues yet because otherwise we would have read about it on this forum..?

 

It cause me an issue, my AC didn’t work from factory because of the condenser issues

 

Got this a few weeks ago here in South Africa. They checked the hose and it was all good so nothing needed to be done.
They did also do an ECU update which made the gear changes feel smoother though

 

For those that have had a recall letter - what month and year were your cars built?

 

I believe mine was may 2018. Registered July 2019.

 

October 2018.

 

Hello, is anybody kind enough to screenshot the letters content, without your particulars? 2019 car here in Singapore but have not received any letter.

 

Recall - is this to do with the AirCon condensation drain hose?

Affecting production dates between 09/2017 and 02/2019.


If so - these are the details:

Moisture from the aircondition can lead to a short circuit with the Mercedes A-Class - Car-Recalls

✅ An incorrectly installed condensation drain hose from the air conditioning system can lead to leakage currents or short circuits with the Mercedes

car-recalls.eu

Australia:
Mercedes-Benz Australia/Pacific Pty Ltd — Mercedes-Benz A Class Passenger Cars MY2018-2019



USA (with pictures, you can check the fault yourself if you are inclined to do so):

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2020/RCMN-20V416-6242.pdf

 

Recall - is this to do with the AirCon condensation drain hose?

Affecting production dates between 09/2017 and 02/2019.


If so - these are the details:

Moisture from the aircondition can lead to a short circuit with the Mercedes A-Class - Car-Recalls

✅ An incorrectly installed condensation drain hose from the air conditioning system can lead to leakage currents or short circuits with the Mercedes

car-recalls.eu

Australia:
Mercedes-Benz Australia/Pacific Pty Ltd — Mercedes-Benz A Class Passenger Cars MY2018-2019



USA (with pictures, you can check the fault yourself if you are inclined to do so):

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2020/RCMN-20V416-6242.pdf

And I thought the passenger side Foot Spa was an optional extra 🤣

 

Yes that’s the one. 👍

 

Ah okay looks like I fall outside of this then.

 

Fingers crossed all A45s should fall outside the date range.

 

I have just received the attached recall letter, I have experienced on more than one occasion that it refused to start, pushing the start button did nothing, it took over 20 mins to get it to crank over and start!

Currently it screams when put into D saying that there's danger around it, the parking sensors, and it's self parking option (paid extra for) have stopped working, gonna get rid!

 

This is the email I received on the 1st of September. My car was built in December 2018.

 

How do you find out your build date? I received my car brand new May 2019.

 

Put your VIN into this site

Mercedes VIN Decoder | Free Mercedes-Benz VIN Lookup Tool - MBDecoder

Mercedes VIN decoder will check your Mercedes VIN and show you full vehicle specification

www.mbdecoder.com

 

I got my car back in Dec 2018 and found out pretty quickly after it loved to steam up, You’d be driving down the road and 2 mins later you couldn’t see and the heating just made it worse.

Turns out my car suffered from this fault, the hose was draining into the car, it filled up the back box of the heating which the when the car got warm and the heating kicked in it just steamed everything up, to add to this as the box filled up it over spilled leaving my floor and sound proofing on the passenger side soaked. Several components corroded behind the dash causing the car to stall unexpectedly (like right in the middle of a busy junction!)

it went into Mercedes, they had the car for nearly 8 weeks, spent 11K basically rebuilding everything behind the dash and when I picked it up I got a three page double sided a4 doc with all the parts they had to changed.

oddly even after a full rebuild it still had the oddity where it tries to either freeze you to death or boil you right up until a few weeks ago when it had its second service and it’s been perfect since.

 

Does this issue also refer to custumors who bought a used A-class?
I've never been in a recall situation before, and does anyone know how MB handels these thing? I assume some have gotten an email with recall and i haven't. Does MB send to all customers at once?
So I checked my VIN number and the car is produced of 2018-04-25. There are no re-calls for my VIN: Technical measures and recalls

Should we in this current situation stop using A/C and maybe use the non A/C option.

 

Just call your dealer and ask them about the recall campaign.

 

Or wait for a full sauna!!!!

 

In the meantime, should we all still use A/C or??? Or are people not worried that much? I assume we can use the non A/C option in these cold fall times...

 

@veeeight I can't get my build date. I've added my VIN into that website but I'm getting this all the time

 

@veeeight I can't get my build date. I've added my VIN into that website but I'm getting this all the time

Not sure why you're getting BMW Vin Decoder page!

It's just worked for me on a desktop, try it on a desktop/laptop.

 

that is on laptop. It's actually merc vin decoder page, that BMW things is a link for the bmw decoder. Don't get it what's going on