Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC: Air Bags
Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC reported this defect to federal regulators on Feb 18, 2015 and put the number of vehicles at risk at 61,793. The repair is free for as long as the recall stands.
The defect
Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain model year 2013-2015 Land Rover Range Rover vehicles manufactured August 23, 2012, to February 5, 2015, and 2014-2015 Range Rover Sport vehicles manufactured June 16, 2013, to February 5, 2015. In the affected vehicles, a light weight adult front seat passenger may be improperly classified by the occupant classification system (OCS) and, as a result, the front seat passenger air bag may be disabled.
The risk
If the front passenger air bag is disabled during a vehicle crash, there is an increased risk of injury.
The remedy
Land Rover will notify owners, and dealers will update the OCS software, free of charge. The recall began April 9, 2015. Owners may contact Land Rover customer service at 1-800-637-6837. Land Rover's number for this recall is P059.
5 model years covered
Newest first| Vehicle | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Crashes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Land Rover Range Rover | 71 | 8 | 0 | 5 |
| 2015 Land Rover Range Rover Sport | 55 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| 2014 Land Rover Range Rover | 42 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 Land Rover Range Rover Sport | 44 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 Land Rover Range Rover | 26 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
What this page is, and what to do next
A recall is not an opinion. It is a Part 573 report a manufacturer is required by federal law to file once it decides a defect poses an unreasonable risk to safety, and it commits them to repairing the vehicle at no cost to the owner. The three passages above are the manufacturer’s own wording as published by NHTSA.
This page describes the campaign. It cannot tell you whether one particular car has already been through the shop — that is tracked by VIN, and only the manufacturer knows it. Check yours at nhtsa.gov/recalls or with a franchised dealer, quoting campaign number 15V093000.
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