2024 Mercedes-Benz GLC
This year drew an ordinary 53 complaints for a Mercedes-Benz GLC — the model's median is 122. What they were about is the unusual part: 41.5% of them mention first, against 6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 53 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 122 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 27 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- first — 41.5% of this year's complaints, against 6% across the model's other years (6.9×).
- stop — 32.1% of this year's complaints, against 7.9% across the model's other years (4.1×).
- new — 32.1% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the model's other years (4×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Check engine light appears, also a blue engine and a turtle. The dealer is aware, they have had it 3times for the same issue and this time 23 days and counting. Currently Mercedes has no fix. I purchased the veh 30 Nov 23- first appeared 16 dec and continued g…
I am experiencing auto braking when there are no obstructions near or around the vehicle. The auto braking is random but occurs fairly often. It is very unsettling and makes me very nervous while driving my brand new vehicle. This happens without warning and c…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Mercedes-Benz GLC was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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