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- squizzel
- Member Since: 30 Aug 2025
- Location: west midlands
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possible recall on the way
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- discus
- Member Since: 22 Aug 2019
- Location: North
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All cars manufactured between 2019 and 2026 affected. Blimey! That'll cost JLR a bob or two if the story is correct.
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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The key phrase in all of this is '...discovered during internal engineer testing...'
Why wasn't the testing done before the issue became a mass recall on cars already sold to customers...like during the assembly process and before they left the factory?
It's not like this potential safety issue spread over so many models and model years will only effect sales on new Land Rovers across the entire range but also used car sales.
I expect Volvo and BMW execs will still be mopping up the coffee they spat out when they read the bulletin...
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- JonM
- Member Since: 30 Jun 2016
- Location: North Yorkshire
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So far, I've only seen this referring to American vehicles. Do UK/EU vehicles also have the same problem?
The articles I've seen also say that the airbags still work correctly so it's not a safety issue - if that's true, what is the problem and why does it need a recall?
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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I think the phrase used was 'no recorded instances of airbags failing to deploy'. It doesn't mean it's not a safety issue...it's certainly enough of a concern that a safety recall has been initiated by Land Rover across a wide range of their top selling vehicles in the US.
For it to become serious enough for a mass recall means the issue has been detected on several vehicles across the entire Land Rover range of models using the same part or system. They don't announce a recall because they found one airbag that failed a safety process...or part of one...during internal testing.
As to whether this is strictly a US issue or limited to left hand drive models... there's no clear indication and as to whatever 'internal engineering' process was used to discover this safety concern...the information is decidedly vague. Was it initiated by Land Rover, the US transport safety board or via some external testing through a third party?
The effected range of vehicles sold in the US are imported ...as far as I know without looking it up... and not manufactured or assembled in country.
The fact that this serious safety issue has gone unnoticed or undetected/unreported for over 6 years across such a wide range of high end Land Rover models and apparently only in the US (for now) is strange (it almost triggers my bullsh*t detection meter) since EU and UK vehicle and component safety testing are some of the most rigorous on the planet...but...this is a very genuine public safety concern whether it's a storm in a teacup being recorded in the US or not.
Now that it's been made official and very public, besides the further of erosion of public confidence in Land Rover products internationally, a single instance of a suspected airbag failure resulting in death or serious injury would be disastrous.
We'll have to wait and see if there's further information from Land Rover or the EU/UK transport safety organisations whether it's solely a US issue or whether UK/EU vehicles or those sold world wide are effected or not.
Hell...in the current epoch of the orange man child, it could be a MAGA ploy to sell more Ford Rangers and Humvee's. Whatever the reason for this recall initiative, corporate Land Rover's hands are tied.
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- DieselRanger
- Member Since: 12 Oct 2017
- Location: God's Country, Colorado
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This sounds preventive vs reactive. Land Rover puts millions of miles on their test fleets. Sometimes vehicles need to age before problems become evident - it could be that there is some premature wear item that is only now becoming noticeable.
In the US, the spectre of the Takata airbag recall resulting from people literally having their throats slashed with shrapnel when airbags went off hangs heavy, so any automaker would want to get way ahead of any risk, especially JLR who is struggling financially.
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
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Thanks Ranger, that puts an entirely different perspective on the issue. Like me, I'm sure many folk outside of the US weren't aware of it.
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