Older Mercedes Sprinter vans may be recalled over emissions violations

Mercedes Sprinter 2014 — Daimler said the vans in question belonged to a previous generation of Sprinter vans that have been out of production since 2016. (NONE)

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Reuters

October 06, 2019 06:46 PM

FRANKFURT -- Daimler may have to recall 260,000 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vehicles after German motor vehicle authority KBA warned the automaker that the transporter vans may contain illegal engine management software, a German paper reported.

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