Land Rover recollects 500 Vary Rover SUVs over improperly welded seat body

Land Rover has issued a recall that applies to 500 models of the last-generation Vary Rover constructed throughout the 2022 and 2023 mannequin years. The SUVs included within the marketing campaign had been manufactured with a second-row seat body whose latch might not have been appropriately welded.

Assigned recall quantity 23V-252 by the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), the recall completely impacts seven-seater Vary Rover fashions constructed between February 11 and June 10, 2022. Land Rover notes that the defect is current in 100% of the SUVs being recalled, although it stresses that it is not conscious of accidents, accidents, fires, guarantee claims, or area stories associated to the issue.

Like a lot of its predecessors, the last-generation Vary Rover got here commonplace with 60/40-split folding rear seats; it is the larger half positioned on the driving force’s facet of the cabin that is on the root of the issue. The corporate explains that “the seat body might have a latch put in with a faulty weld,” that means the seat is not appropriately secured even when it is within the upright place. In flip, this will increase the danger of an harm within the occasion of an accident. Land Rover factors out {that a} warning message seems within the instrument cluster if the seat is not correctly latched.

House owners of affected SUVs will obtain extra particulars in regards to the recall by mail beginning on June 2, 2023. It sounds just like the repair is pretty easy: Land Rover technicians will examine the latch and substitute the body if wanted. If the welds look wonderful, no additional motion is required.

If this sounds acquainted, it is probably as a result of BMW recalled a handful of three Collection, X3, and X4 fashions earlier in 2023 for a really comparable concern; in these vehicles, the entrance seat frames weren’t correctly welded to the seat rails. There isn’t any relation between the 2 recollects, nonetheless. Though each firms level out that the issue comes from a provider, they supply seats and seat-related elements from totally different firms.