# Service bulletin TB\-46\-10\-32

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10028646
- Published by NHTSA: 2009\-05\-13
- Manufacturer's number: TB\-46\-10\-32
- Manufacturer's date: 2008\-12\-02
- NHTSA component: STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT PITMAN; STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT SECTOR

## NHTSA's summary

MERCEDES: GROANING OR DULL, HEAVY CRACKING NOISES FROM STEERING SHAFT AREA. WHEN TURNING STEERING WHEEL OR MOVING OFF OR BRAKING. THIS MAY BE EMANATING FROM THE BEARING AND HOUSING OF UPPER STEERING SHAFT \(FIREWALL PIVOT POINT\) OR STEERING COUPLING \(LOWER STEERING SHAFT\). MODELS 164 AND 251. MODEL YEARS UNKNOWN. \*PE

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Steering, Steering gear

## Vehicles listed

- 2005 to 2008 MERCEDES BENZ GL320
- 2005 to 2008 MERCEDES BENZ GL450
- 2005 to 2008 MERCEDES BENZ GL550
- MERCEDES BENZ ML320
- 2003 MERCEDES BENZ ML320
- 2005 to 2008 MERCEDES BENZ ML320
- 2003 to 2008 MERCEDES BENZ ML350
- 2003 to 2008 MERCEDES BENZ ML500
- 2005 to 2008 MERCEDES BENZ ML550
- 2005 to 2008 MERCEDES BENZ ML63
- 2005 to 2009 MERCEDES BENZ R320
- 2005 to 2009 MERCEDES BENZ R500
- 2005 to 2009 MERCEDES BENZ R63
- 2005 to 2009 MERCEDES\-BENZ R350

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