Front Driver Side Air Bag Inflator problems of the 2013 Mercedes Benz C300

Takata recall - per the NHTSA and mercedes website information our vehicle is included in NHTSA recall #16v081 which is the driver's frontal airbag inflator. We have not received any notification from mercedes related to this recall and/or when our vehicle's airbag inflator will be fixed. We therefore contacted Mercedes Benz customer service who escalated our concern to one of their managers. We received a call on 4/6/18 from patricia wagner who stated she represented Mercedes Benz and advised they will not replace our drivers side airbag inflator. She further advised that the NHTSA recall information is incorrect and that recall #16v081 is a passenger side airbag inflator recall and that we needed to contact NHTSA and spreak with a supervisor to find out why they (NHTSA) were providing incorrect information.

On January 17, 2018, tk holdings inc. Mailed me an important notice for ownersof vehicles with takata airbag inflators. . Read more...

I received two safety recall notices from daimler ag (dag) regarding air bag issues since October 2017, both of which indicate that "remedy not yet available. " the most recent one (issued January 2018) is related to the takata recall: "according to takata, in the event of an inflator rupture, metal fragments could pass through the air bag cushion material, which may result in injury or death to vehicle occupants" the first recall, issued October 2017 relates "daimler ag (dag), the manufacturer of mercedes-benz vehicles, has determined that on certain b-class electric, c-class, e-class and cla, gla, glc, glk-class vehicles (242, 204, 205, 207, 212, 117, 156, 253 platform) an electrostatic discharge, when combined with a broken steering column module clock spring and an insufficient grounding of the steering components, could lead to an inadvertent deployment of the driver airbag. A broken steering column module clock spring activates a driver airbag warning message in the instrument cluster, as well as the red airbag warning lamp. An inadvertent driver airbag deployment may cause a risk of injury to the driver and might increase the risk of a potential crash. Consequence an inadvertent driver airbag deployment may cause a risk of injury to the driver and might increase the risk of a potential crash. " it is unacceptable that daimler has not yet provided remedies for these situations.