2010 MERCEDES-BENZ GLK350 — Complaint #1675891
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER:FUEL FILTER filed July 10, 2020
NHTSA complaint #1675891 (ODI reference 11338640) concerns a 2010 MERCEDES-BENZ GLK350 and was filed on July 10, 2020. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 11, 2017. The vehicle had 93,215 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as fuel system, other:fuel filter, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same MERCEDES-BENZ GLK350 cohort independently describe similar fuel system, other:fuel filter failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2010 MERCEDES-BENZ GLK350 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
PLASTIC SEAL ON GASKETS FOR GAS TANK FAILED ON BOTH SIDES OF CAR. CAUSES LEAKING OF FUEL AND ODOR INTO PASSENGER AREA OF VEHICLE AND DANGER OF EXPLOSION DUE TO LEAKING FUEL. IT OCCURS WHEN GAS TANK IS MORE THAN 3/4 FULL TO FULL OF FUEL.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1675891 |
| ODI Number | 11338640 |
| Date Filed | July 10, 2020 |
| Failure Date | January 11, 2017 |
| VIN | WDCGG5GBXAF |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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