2023 Mercedes-Benz GLC
This year drew an ordinary 121 complaints for a Mercedes-Benz GLC — the model's median is 122. What they were about is the unusual part: 24% of them mention start, against 4.7% across the model's other years.
| Complaints filed | 121 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 122 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 26 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- start — 24% of this year's complaints, against 4.7% across the model's other years (5.1×).
- messages — 24% of this year's complaints, against 4.7% across the model's other years (5.1×). Owners wrote it as: messages, lamps, return, messages other.
- low — 32.2% of this year's complaints, against 12.4% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: low, beam, adaptive, high.
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 Right low beam error messsage. Beam decreased light output, lightbulb out. Adaptive high beam not working and neither is the intelligent light system/active lights.
First of all, this is a new car produced in 2023. Since I bought it, the engine has shown alarms more than four times. Every time I went to the 4S shop, no problems were found. Today, the engine still shows a yellow alarm. Secondly, the brake disc makes a loud…
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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