Land Rover Defender. Published by Transport Canada as 2023109 on 2 March 2023. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain Defender 130 models, the latch that locks the backrest for the third-row seat may not have been manufactured correctly. As a result, the seat backrest may not fully lock in place.
Safety Risk:
A seat backrest that isn't locked could move in a crash and increase the risk of injury. …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Transport Canada carries this recall as 2023109, dated 2 March 2023. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 23V137, dated 2 March 2023. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, N768.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2023109 | 23V137 |
| Dated | 2 March 2023 | 2 March 2023 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
| Make | Land Rover | |
Both registers carry the same date for this defect.
These are the dates each register records against its own notice. They are separate administrative acts in two countries, recorded by two authorities under two sets of rules, and this page does not claim that one caused the other or that owners in either country were contacted on those days. What it shows is that the same manufacturer campaign reached the two registers on different dates.
This campaign code also appears in a third register. The European alerts covers the European Union side.
Read the American notice 23V137, including every earlier version of its wording this site holds. The Canadian register explains why the manufacturer code is published there and what that makes possible. Canada and America sets every matched pair side by side.
Land Rover DEFENDER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Land Rover DEFENDER is named on 14 American notices, 33 British, 22 European, 4 Japanese and 7 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European register
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/1280/14: Land Rover Defender 110 SDT, Defender 110 HD, Defender 130 SDT And (New) Defender 90 SDT & Defender 90 HD, notified by United Kingdom
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/1279/14: Land Rover Defender, notified by United Kingdom
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/0208/16: Land Rover Defender, notified by Germany
The Japanese register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2023109
- Recall date
- 2 March 2023
- Make
- Land Rover
- Models
- Defender
- Model years
- 2023
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 82
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain Defender 130 models, the latch that locks the backrest for the third-row seat may not have been manufactured correctly. As a result, the seat backrest may not fully lock in place.Safety Risk:
A seat backrest that isn't locked could move in a crash and increase the risk of injury.Corrective Actions:
Land Rover will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealership to inspect the third-row seat, and replace the backrest if necessary. To reduce the safety risk, Land Rover recommends not to use a child car seat that requires a top-tether in the third-row seat until the recall repairs have been completed.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2023109.
Land Rover elsewhere in this register
Land Rover is named on 127 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2023189 · 30 March 2023 · Range Rover, Range Rover Sport · Engine
- 2023039 · 2 February 2023 · Range Rover Velar, Range Rover Sport, Defender · Engine
- 2023037 · 2 February 2023 · Range Rover · Visual System
- 2023209 · 6 April 2023 · Range Rover · Seats And Restraints
- 2023269 · 4 May 2023 · Range Rover, Range Rover Sport · Accessories
- 2023317 · 1 June 2023 · Range Rover · Lights And Instruments
- 2023687 · 21 December 2023 · Range Rover Sport · Lights And Instruments
- 2022668 · 23 November 2022 · Range Rover · Suspension
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2023117 · 6 March 2023 · Coral XP, Mico XP Max · Seats And Restraints
- 2023127 · 9 March 2023 · Cr-V, Odyssey, Accord · Seats And Restraints
- 2023145 · 17 March 2023 · Taycan Turbo, 911 Carrera, Taycan · Seats And Restraints
- 2023099 · 27 February 2023 · Model Y · Seats And Restraints
- 2023105 · 27 February 2023 · Aton 2 · Seats And Restraints
- 2023071 · 16 February 2023 · Redhawk Motorhome · Seats And Restraints
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Land Rover Defender, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Land Rover: 127 in the register, and 593 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2023.
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