Land Rover will repair rearview cameras on 93,997 Range Rovers at no cost to owners, under a recall filed with federal safety regulators on October 15, 2026. The vehicles are model years 2022 through 2026. Dealers will drill extra drain holes in the tailgate trim and replace the camera if water has already damaged it.
Why water is the problem for a Range Rover camera
Jaguar Land Rover North America told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that the tailgate does not have enough drain holes. Water may not drain away from the rearview camera, and water left sitting there can damage it, according to NHTSA’s record of campaign 26V678000.
The danger is a missing picture. If the camera image fails to display, the driver’s view behind the vehicle is reduced, and the record says that raises the risk of a crash while backing up. The part involved is listed as the back-over prevention sensing system.
The recall reaches Range Rovers from the 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 model years, 93,997 in all. Land Rover tracks the campaign as D171, a number a service advisor can look up. The record carries no park-it or park-outside warning, so Land Rover is not telling owners to stop driving.
Lining up the dealer visit before the letter arrives
Owners do not have to wait for mail. The 17-character VIN sits on the lower left of the windshield and on the registration card, and it can be entered at NHTSA’s recall lookup to see whether that vehicle is in the campaign. NHTSA says a local dealership fixes a recalled part for free, and a household with several vehicles can search up to 100 VINs at once.
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Land Rover customer service handles the campaign at 800-637-6837, and NHTSA takes calls at 888-327-4236. Callers should have the VIN and the Land Rover number, D171, in hand. The record does not say when dealers can begin the work, so the first call is also how an owner learns the earliest appointment.
Free repair, no price tag attached
The fix has two steps. Dealers drill additional drain holes in the underside of the tailgate trim, then inspect the rearview camera and replace it when it needs replacing. The record states that repairs are free of charge, which means a camera replacement, if the inspection calls for one, costs the owner nothing.
Interim owner letters are expected to be mailed December 11, 2026, about seven weeks from now. Land Rover says further letters will follow once the final remedy is available. Federal rules have manufacturers mail recall notices to registered owners within 60 days of telling NHTSA about a recall decision, so owners who move or sell should keep their registration address current.
The filing says nothing about repaying owners who already fixed a failed camera on their own. Under NHTSA’s owner guidance, some of those costs can come back to the owner, but only with paperwork. An invoice from a dealer or an independent shop is the document that matters.
The brochure sets the window. Reimbursement covers repairs paid for from the earlier of two dates, the day NHTSA opens an engineering analysis or one year before the manufacturer reported the defect, and it ends 10 days after the manufacturer mails the last owner notices. Land Rover reported this campaign on October 15, 2026, so the one-year mark falls in October 2025 unless NHTSA opened an analysis sooner.
What if a dealer says no? The brochure tells owners to notify the manufacturer immediately when a dealer refuses to repair in line with the recall letter, and says owners are entitled to the remedy without charge and within a reasonable time. Land Rover’s line, 800-637-6837, is where that call goes.
The record puts no dollar figure on the work, and Land Rover has not published one, so the saving cannot be priced from the filing. What can be said is who pays: the manufacturer, whatever the camera turns out to need.
The costly mistake is paying first
The expensive order of events is a shop quoting a camera replacement before anyone checks the VIN. A recall match turns that quote into a dealer repair at no charge, and a few minutes on the lookup is the whole price of finding out.
The recall spans five model years, so it reaches vehicles of very different ages and mileage. The record lists no mileage condition on the free repair, and nothing in it limits the work to the first owner.
Age is the other limit. The brochure says a free remedy is owed on vehicles not more than 15 years old, counted from the date of the first sale. Every Range Rover in this recall is a 2022 or later model year, so none is near that line.
The December letter carries more than a date. NHTSA’s brochure says recall letters must explain the hazard, remind owners that the remedy is at no charge and say how long the repair will take, which is the one detail the filing leaves out today.
That leaves a short list for Range Rover owners: confirm the VIN, book the dealer when it can take the work, keep any earlier repair receipts and watch for the December 11 letter. The open question for anyone who already paid a shop to fix this camera is whether that bill can be recovered.
Already paid to fix a Range Rover camera?
A repair receipt that never gets filed is a recall refund that never gets asked for, and the same habit leaves other household money unclaimed. A free dealer repair is one cost avoided; Medicare Savings Programs, Extra Help, SNAP and heating aid are others that only pay when someone applies.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
