The German brand Mercedes has issued a recall notice for over 19,000 copies of its EQC electric SUV, lest the power steering may suddenly fail on some of these cars. According to the website car-recalls.eu, the recalled cars were built between 11 December 2019 and 18 May 2020, and around 3,073 of the affected vehicles are known to have been sold in Germany.
In a statement released to the British magazine Autocar, the German company said: “Mercedes has determined that on some EQC vehicles the electric steering wiring may have been damaged during the assembly process. In this case, water could enter the wiring harness through damaged insulation and gradually progress towards the steering control unit. As a result, the steering assistance could fail spontaneously, even while driving. In this case, the driver would be alerted by a red warning message in the instrument cluster“.
It is therefore a problem born at the source, that is, at the assembly line. But that’s just the latest in a series of quality control problems that have sprung up around the EQC model. In fact, there have been other problems in the past, such as front differential bolts, badly tightened airbag nuts, non-compliant backrests and battery housings that suffer from corrosion. In short, the car does not seem to have been born under a lucky star, and furthermore until 2020 the sales had been insufficient.
In fact, during the summer of last year, Inge Speich, head of Corporate Governance at Deka, a company that holds a minority stake in the Daimler group, had harshly criticized the EQC SUV, calling it too expensive, boring to drive and too late to market. The news was reported by Bloomberg. In the meantime, Mercedes has launched its electric flagship, the EQS, and with it hopes to revive its ‘battery-powered’ results.
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