Land Rover Discovery Sport, model years 2015 to 2016. Filed by Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 6 May 2016. 14,731 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain model year 2015-2016 Land Rover Discovery Sport vehicles manufactured September 17, 2014, to March 5, 2016. In the affected vehicles, the license plate illumination lamp may fall out. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of …
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Land Rover's own number for this recall: P077. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V274 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 16V274 cover?
- Land Rover Discovery Sport, model years 2015-2016.
- What is wrong with them?
- Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain model year 2015-2016 Land Rover Discovery Sport vehicles manufactured September 17, 2014, to March 5, 2016. In the affected vehicles, the license plate illumination lamp may fall out.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Without license plate illumination, the vehicle may be difficult to identify at night.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Land Rover will notify owners, and dealers will replace both rear license plate lamp housings, free of charge. The recall began on June 21, 2016. Owners may contact Land Rover customer service at 1-800-637-6837. Land Rover's number for this recall is P077.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Land Rover calls this recall P077, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “Without license plate illumination, the vehicle may be difficult to identify at night.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V274 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting |
| Reported to NHTSA | 6 May 2016 |
| Model years | 2015-2016 |
| Vehicles named | LAND ROVER DISCOVERY SPORT |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Without license plate illumination, the vehicle may be difficult to identify at night.
The remedy
Land Rover will notify owners, and dealers will replace both rear license plate lamp housings, free of charge. The recall began on June 21, 2016. Owners may contact Land Rover customer service at 1-800-637-6837. Land Rover's number for this recall is P077.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 663 notices in the record whose component field names exterior lighting. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2016200, recorded 5 May 2016 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on P077, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 16V274, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v274/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Land Rover notices we hold
- 26V527: 2016-2017 Range Rover
- 26V458: 2021-2025 Land Rover Discovery
- 26V389: 2020-2026 Land Rover Defender, 2021-2026 Discovery, and 2022-2026 Range Rover
- 26V297: 2026 Land Rover Range Rover Velar, Range Rover Sport, and Range Rover
- 26V263: 2026 Land Rover Defender
- 26V163: 2026 Land Rover Defender
- 26V097: 2023-2026 Range Rover Sport and Range Rover
- 26V067: 2020-2021 Jaguar I-PACE
All 191 Land Rover campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 16V274 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
c0b0d048 - Consequence
4537a513 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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