Land Rover Defender, model years 2020 to 2022. Filed by Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 8 June 2021. 2,622 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2020-2022 Defender X vehicles equipped with smoked rear light assemblies. A voltage spike, triggered by a bright light shining on the rear of the vehicle, can cause the turn signals, brake lights, and tail lights to fail.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, 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.
Land Rover's own number for this recall: N598. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V435 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 21V435 cover?
- Land Rover Defender, model years 2020-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2020-2022 Defender X vehicles equipped with smoked rear light assemblies. A voltage spike, triggered by a bright light shining on the rear of the vehicle, can cause the turn signals, brake lights, and tail lights to fail.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- Turn signals, brake lights, and tail lights that fail to illuminate can reduce visibility to other drivers and increase the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the rear light assemblies, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed September 27, 2021. Owners can contact Land Rover customer service at 1-800-637-6837. Land Rover's number for this recall is N598.
- 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 N598, 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: “Turn signals, brake lights, and tail lights that fail to illuminate can reduce visibility to other drivers and increase the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V435 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Exterior Lighting:Tail Lights |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 June 2021 |
| Model years | 2020-2022 |
| Vehicles named | LAND ROVER DEFENDER |
What the notice says today
The consequence
Turn signals, brake lights, and tail lights that fail to illuminate can reduce visibility to other drivers and increase the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the rear light assemblies, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed September 27, 2021. Owners can contact Land Rover customer service at 1-800-637-6837. Land Rover's number for this recall is N598.
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 models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 21V435, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v435/
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.
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Other Land Rover notices we hold
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- 26V458: 2021-2025 Land Rover Discovery
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- 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
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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 21V435 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
191c0720 - Consequence
32937952 - Remedy
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