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Model years to avoid

Mercedes-Benz GLC

What it says about you

Opinion

Handsome, comfortable, and expensive to maintain in ways you have started to discover. You are not selling it. You have looked up what the next service costs.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

13 model years on record, 1,483 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • odor 2016, 2017 peak 15.1% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 0 recalls 7 complaints
  3. 2025 nothing on record 39 complaints
  4. 2024 0 recalls 53 complaints
  5. 2023 0 recalls 121 complaints
  6. 2022 0 recalls 118 complaints
  7. 2021 0 recalls 122 complaints
  8. 2020 0 recalls 224 complaints
  9. 2019 0 recalls 134 complaints
  10. 2018 0 recalls 294 complaints
  11. 2017 0 recalls 230 complaints
  12. 2016 0 recalls 139 complaints
  13. 2015 0 recalls 2 complaints

What does a Mercedes-Benz GLC say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.