By model year

Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class by model year: recalls, complaints, ratings

For the Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class, matched NHTSA complaint counts in this table run from 16 (2026) to 125 (2020). The complaint file is dated Oct 23, 2026. These are raw counts, not rates. A higher count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported.

ABOUT THIS DATA

The table lists raw counts from NHTSA's files. A larger complaint count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported. The counts are not divided by sales. This page does not rank one model year above another.

One row per model year. Complaint and recall figures are matched raw counts.
2016 18 107 10 4 2 — 15–25
2017 12 75 10 0 2 — 15–21
2018 9 56 8 1 2 — 15–21
2019 6 34 2 1 1 — 14–20
2020 36 125 3 1 0 — 19–22
2021 22 92 3 3 0 5 16–23
2022 11 70 2 1 0 5 16–22
2023 5 33 3 0 0 5 17–22
2024 6 53 4 0 0 — 16–24
2025 3 35 2 3 0 — 16–23
2026 3 16 0 0 0 — 17–23
2027 · no NHTSA name match 0 0 0 0 0 — 21–23

Star columns say "Pre-2011" for older model years because those ratings use a different NHTSA method. Overall stars for 2011 and newer are the matched Safety Ratings variants. A dash means no overall star was matched.