Porsche Macan, Porsche Macan S, Porsche Macan Sport Edition, Porsche Macan Turbo, Porsche Panamera 4, Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, model years 2016 to 2020. Filed by Porsche Cars North America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 26 June 2023. 37 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2016-2020 Macan S, 2017-2020 Macan, 2017 Panamera Turbo, 2018 and 2020 Macan Turbo and Panamera 4, 2018 Macan Sport Edition, Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, and 2019 Panamera 4 Sport Turismo vehicles. The screw that attaches the lower seat belt anchor to the seat …
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.
The maker's own number for this recall: APA9. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V443 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 23V443 cover?
- Porsche Macan, Porsche Macan S, Porsche Macan Sport Edition, Porsche Macan Turbo, Porsche Panamera 4, Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, Porsche Panamera 4 Sport Turismo, Porsche Panamera Turbo, model years 2016-2020.
- What is wrong with them?
- Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (Porsche) is recalling certain 2016-2020 Macan S, 2017-2020 Macan, 2017 Panamera Turbo, 2018 and 2020 Macan Turbo and Panamera 4, 2018 Macan Sport Edition, Panamera 4 E-Hybrid, and 2019 Panamera 4 Sport Turismo vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An improperly tightened seat belt anchor can detach during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace and tighten the lower rear outboard seat belt anchor screws, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 24, 2023. Owners may contact Porsche's customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is APA9.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. The maker calls this recall APA9, 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: “An improperly tightened seat belt anchor can detach during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V443 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Porsche Cars North America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Rear/Other:Anchorage |
| Reported to NHTSA | 26 June 2023 |
| Model years | 2016-2020 |
| Vehicles named | PORSCHE MACAN, PORSCHE MACAN S, PORSCHE MACAN SPORT EDITION, PORSCHE MACAN TURBO, PORSCHE PANAMERA 4, PORSCHE PANAMERA 4 E-HYBRID, PORSCHE PANAMERA 4 SPORT TURISMO, PORSCHE PANAMERA TURBO |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An improperly tightened seat belt anchor can detach during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will replace and tighten the lower rear outboard seat belt anchor screws, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 24, 2023. Owners may contact Porsche's customer service at 1-800-767-7243. Porsche's number for this recall is APA9.
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 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 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 2023361, recorded 27 June 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
- European Union: Safety Gate alert A12/01682/23, published 21 July 2023, raised by Germany (the Commission’s own page) (25 days after the American filing)
Matched on APA9, 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
- Porsche Macan recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Porsche Macan S recalls: 8 US campaigns
- Porsche Macan Turbo recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera 4 recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid recalls: 7 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera 4 Sport Turismo recalls: 4 US campaigns
- Porsche Panamera Turbo recalls: 9 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 23V443, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v443/
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.
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 23V443 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
d8212747 - Consequence
986a573d - Remedy
4d105418
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.
The wording we hold for 23V443 · how the whole register is watched
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