Mercedes Benz / GL450 / 2007
2007 Mercedes Benz GL450 problems
Owners have filed 162 complaints about the 2007 Mercedes Benz GL450 with NHTSA. Seats account for 24.7% of them — narrowly the most common, ahead of electrical system at 17.3%.
Complaints162
Crashes8
Fires46
Injuries21
Deaths0
What owners report breaking
Seats 24.7% · 40
Electrical system 17.3% · 28
Power train 10.5% · 17
Suspension 6.8% · 11
Steering 5.6% · 9
Service brakes, hydraulic 4.9% · 8
Vehicle speed control 4.3% · 7
Structure 3.7% · 6
Severity
Of those complaints, 8 describe a crash, 46 describe a fire and 21 report an injury.
Reading the numbers
Filings have fallen off, 7 in the last three years against 11 in the three before. That is normal as a generation leaves the road.
The median odometer reading at the time of complaint was 82,750 miles.
In owners' own words
2007 Mercedes GL450 on dec 11 2009 I noticed the smell of something burning while driving my suv. Shortly thereafter I felt an intense burning along my left lower back. I immediately pulled over and exited the vehicle. Along the left side back of the drivers seat was a 1.5 X 0.5Inch hole burnt through the fabric. I was using the seat heater at the time. The incident damaged my pants and leather jacket. Seats · reported at 32,000 miles
After about 3 minutes of having my driver's side seat warmer on, we started to smell burning and the left side of my seat got very hot, so I turned off my seat warmer. When I got out of my car, I noticed a burn hole in my sweatshirt and then looked at my seat and it had a burn hole on it about 1/2-1" in size. What would have happened if I didn't turn it off if this happened in about 3 minutes? Seats · reported at 55,000 miles
While driving 2007 mercedes GL450 with my wife, after driving for 1 miles from our home with front seat heating I felt burn at my back and then my wife saw smoke coming out of the seats, we stoped the car and saw drive seat was burning and made a quarter size hole in the seat, I talked to Mercedes Benz of plano but they didn't have a clue. Even now if I turn it on it will catch fire - Seats · reported at 145,000 miles
Verbatim from NHTSA filings. Complaints are unverified owner reports.
Safety recalls
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