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Recall Date: 6/9/2026
NHTSA ID: 26V389
MFr. Campaign Number: D120
Manufacturer: Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC
Affected Components: Driver's airbag connector (clockspring)
Potential Number of Units Affected: 250,857
Which Land Rover vehicles are affected?
This recall covers three Land Rover model lines: the 2022–2026 Range Rover (69,685 vehicles), the 2021–2026 Discovery (83,620 vehicles), and the 2020–2026 Defender (97,552 vehicles), for a combined 250,857 vehicles. Jaguar Land Rover estimates the defect condition applies to the full affected population.
The connector linking the steering wheel's clockspring to the driver's airbag can develop fretting corrosion over time. That corrosion increases resistance in the airbag circuit, which can prevent the driver's airbag from deploying when it's needed in a crash.
What drivers need to know
JLR's engineering analysis found that the airbag warning lamp will illuminate at least 300 to 400 miles before a potential non-deployment, giving owners a real window to get the vehicle serviced. Anyone who sees that warning light should schedule service right away rather than waiting for the recall letter.
JLR has not issued a Do Not Drive or Park Outside advisory for this campaign, and the company has not received any US reports of an airbag failing to deploy because of this issue. The remedy is straightforward: dealers apply a protective lubricant gel to the connector terminals, free of charge, with no parts replaced.
Dealer notification is scheduled for June 26, 2026, with owner notification letters going out on or before August 7, 2026.
Land Rover recall background
JLR opened this investigation in August 2025 after warranty claims tied to the airbag warning lamp started climbing, even though there had been no reports of an airbag actually failing to deploy. Engineers spent the following months trying to reproduce the failure and analyzing returned parts, eventually finding oxides on the pins of some clockspring connectors in November 2025. Vibrational rig testing completed in March 2026 confirmed that normal vehicle articulation could induce the same fretting corrosion, which led JLR to expand its review across the full Range Rover, Discovery, and Defender population.
JLR's decision to recall on June 5, 2026, came without a single US field report of non-deployment, reflecting a company acting on lab and statistical findings rather than waiting for an incident. That's a meaningfully proactive posture for a recall involving three of JLR's highest-volume model lines.
How BizzyCar can help
A quarter-million-vehicle recall spread across three model lines and five production years is a lot for any Land Rover service department to manage manually, especially with a remedy this quick to perform once a vehicle is in the bay.
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