Mercedes Is Recalling Thousands of Sedans, Crossovers, Coupes, and Convertibles

If you own a combustion-powered Mercedes-Benz from the 2024-2026 model years, your car may be under recall, says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, because the screen behind your steering wheel might go blank. There’s no doubt that modern instrument cluster displays can perform far more tasks and with greater efficiency than the basic gauges we once glanced at to get a rough idea of how the car was doing, but when traditional dials or digital readouts stop working, the result is much the same: driving blind and slightly distracted. Happily, and unlike when something went wrong with old-school clusters, none of the 144,049 vehicles named in the recall have to insta …