Land Rover Defender, model year 2026. Filed by Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 18 March 2026. 582 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2026 Land Rover Defender vehicles. The third-row lower seat belt anchorage bracket may have an insufficient weld stud.
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: D098 D113. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V163 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 26V163 cover?
- Land Rover Defender, model year 2026.
- What is wrong with them?
- Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2026 Land Rover Defender vehicles. The third-row lower seat belt anchorage bracket may have an insufficient weld stud.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A seat belt assembly with an insufficient weld may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace the third-row lower seat belt anchorage bracket or the weld-stud on the bracket, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 19, 2026. Owners may contact Land Rover's customer service at 800-637-6837. Land Rover's numbers for this recall are D098 and D113.
- 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 D098 D113, 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: “A seat belt assembly with an insufficient weld may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V163 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Critical Fasteners |
| Reported to NHTSA | 18 March 2026 |
| Model years | 2026-2026 |
| Vehicles named | LAND ROVER DEFENDER |
What the notice says today
The defect
Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2026 Land Rover Defender vehicles. The third-row lower seat belt anchorage bracket may have an insufficient weld stud.
The consequence
A seat belt assembly with an insufficient weld may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the third-row lower seat belt anchorage bracket or the weld-stud on the bracket, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 19, 2026. Owners may contact Land Rover's customer service at 800-637-6837. Land Rover's numbers for this recall are D098 and D113.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to ff6e4707f12a358069fe94604401febc…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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 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 26V163, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v163/
The copy quoted above hashes to ff6e4707f12a358069fe94604401febc…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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
- 26V097: 2023-2026 Range Rover Sport and Range Rover
- 26V067: 2020-2021 Jaguar I-PACE
- 26V005: 2026 Range Rover Sport
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 26V163 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
af75c61b - Consequence
8735b3d1 - 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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