Earlier than you’re taking your electric G-Wagon for its subsequent off-roading tour, chances are you’ll need to cease by a licensed seller. The German automaker issued a recall for each Mercedes-Benz G580 with EQ expertise with the 2025 mannequin 12 months, as first noticed by InsideEVs. In keeping with the recall on the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration’s website, the present wheel bolts might “enable a wheel to loosen or detach from the car,” probably affecting 3,734 fashions on the highway.
The recall report defined that the electrical G580’s wheel bolts have been “not tailored to the elevated car mass and better torque hundreds related to the electrical variant.” In keeping with the NHTSA report, Mercedes-Benz used the identical wheel meeting and bolts as its different G-Class autos for the electrical mannequin, however performed an evaluation from September 2024 to January 2025 that confirmed these wheel bolts might loosen from repeated tough driving and wheel adjustments, particularly with the 2025 Mercedes-Benz G580 with EQ expertise fashions. In the long run, Mercedes-Benz concluded within the report that it could not rule out the chance, regardless that the wheel bolt loosening was “unlikely to happen underneath real-world working eventualities.”
To get it mounted, house owners must convey their affected G580s to a Mercedes-Benz licensed seller, who will exchange the bolts at no cost. Homeowners of the electrical G580s, whose 2025 mannequin 12 months began at round $160,000, will get mail notices beginning in late Might. In addition to this luxurious SUV mannequin, Mercedes-Benz needed to subject one other recall for one more EV in 2021. The automaker recalled a pair hundred EQS EV and S-Class sedans that allowed for video playback on the dashboard even whereas the automotive was shifting.
