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2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA250 vehicle speed control problems

36 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the vehicle speed control on the 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA25020% of all complaints for this model year.

36
Vehicle Speed Control complaints
20%
share of all complaints
16,000 mi
median reported incident mileage
1 / 0
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • Apparently the TPS (Throttle Position Sensor) which is built into the gas pedal on this 2014 MB CLA250 only lasts so long before it becomes defective under highway conditions and causes the vehicle to go into LIMP MODE. When full acceleration is necessary, the unit will work for perhaps a few…

    filed Mar 21, 2024

  • When accelerating hard to overtake, the engine lurches, and the car fails to accelerate further and slows down. The engine fault light then illuminates which switched off by itself after switching the engine off twice. It seems I am not the only person to have this problem as you can see in the…

    filed Feb 10, 2021

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Vehicle Speed Control problems in other CLA250 years

YearReportsShare
2016 CLA25012%
2015 CLA25035%
CLA250 vehicle speed control problems by year →

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.