Recall · 20V143000
Jaguar Land Rover North America recalled the LAND ROVER Discovery over exterior lighting
1,553
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
March 12, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- The defect
- Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2017-2018 Discovery vehicles equipped with low line headlight assemblies. When towing a trailer with the trailer lights connected to the trailer socket and the vehicle's Daytime Running Lights (DRL) are on, the trailer lights may not function.
- What it can cause
- If the trailer lights are not working, following traffic won't be aware the vehicle is slowing down or stopping, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Land Rover will notify owners, and dealers will update the Body Control Module software, free of charge. The recall began April 13, 2020. Owners may contact Land Rover customer service at 1-800-637-6837. Land Rover's number for this recall is N428.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 1,553 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 63% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2017 to 2018, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Land Rover vehicles have been recalled over the exterior lighting 2 times before this, most recently in May 2016 as 16V274000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 91 complaints with NHTSA, 22 of them before this campaign was filed. 3 of those name the exterior lighting, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2017, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 23V393000 (electrical system), 21V117000 (exterior lighting).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC with NHTSA on March 12, 2020 as campaign 20V143000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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