N678 – Seat Belt May Not Lock – 2016-2017 Land Rover Range Rover & Range Rover Sport

April 5, 2022 NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 22V219000

Seat Belt May Not Lock/FMVSS 209 & 208

During hard braking before a crash, the seat belt emergency locking retractor may not lock as intended, increasing the risk of injury.

 

NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V219

Manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC

Components SEAT BELTS

Potential Number of Units Affected 14,812

 

Summary

Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2016-2017 Range Rover and Range Rover Sport vehicles. The driver’s seat belt emergency locking retractor may not lock as intended. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) numbers 209, “Seat Belt Assemblies” and 208, “Occupant Crash Protection.”

 

Remedy

Dealers will inspect and replace the seat belt assembly, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 29, 2022. Owners may contact Land Rover customer service at 1-800-637-6837. Land Rover’s number for this recall is N678. This recall replaces NHTSA recall number 19V-350. Vehicles previously inspected under recall 19V-350 that did not receive a replacement seat belt assembly will need to have this new recall remedy performed.

 

Notes

Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.

 

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N678

573.6 (c) (7) – Test results and other information that the manufacturer considered in determining the existence of the noncompliance

Autoliv notified on Jaguar Land Rover November 2, 2016 advising that another customer of theirs submitted a 49 CFR 573 Report to NHTSA which stated that the ELR in the driver’s safety belt assembly may not have been produced to specification. They advised that the component concerned was also supplied to Jaguar Land Rover. Autoliv advised that a seat belt retractor car-sensitive sensor (CS Sensor) concern could impair proper triggering of the Emergency Locking Retractor (ELR)’s vehicle sensitive mechanism.

Jaguar Land Rover opened a Product Safety and Compliance Committee (PSCC) investigation that was reviewed at the PSCC meeting on November 15, 2016.

Autoliv informed Jaguar Land Rover that the other OEM (BMW) had submitted on October 13, 2016, a 49 CFR 573 Report which stated that the Emergency Locking Retractor (ELR) in the driver’s safety belt assembly may not have been produced to specification. Autoliv had identified through testing and analysis to support this submission that Jaguar Land Rover components may be affected.

The Autoliv investigation identified that during initial analysis of the returned part a potential concern with a subcomponent part of the seatbelt retractor commonly known as the carsensitive sensor (“CS Sensor”).  As a result, Autoliv and BMW commenced further analysis activities to assess and understand the nature of the reported issue.

The CS Sensor is manufactured and supplied by an Autoliv sub supplier and is assembled into the seatbelt retractor.  Focused analysis on the CS Sensor indicated that a deviation in the injection molding manufacturing process at the sub supplier may have occurred which could impair proper triggering of the Emergency Locking Retractor (ELR)’s vehicle sensitive mechanism.  The investigation into this possible manufacturer deviation that could result in the CS Sensor lever and housing to be out of tolerance and cause an interference.

Jaguar Land Rover supplied eight parts to Autoliv for testing and analysis and on November 25, 2016, Autoliv issued a test report to Jaguar Land Rover which reflected that 1 out of the 8 parts tested exhibited noncompliance to FMVSS 209 S4.3(j)(2).

Additionally, Autoliv performed a high level technical review/comparison of the BMW parts to the Jaguar Land Rover parts.  Autoliv has determined that the parts supplied to Jaguar Land Rover contain the same combination of components which appear to be the major influencing parts on the condition seen in the BMW parts.

This issue was reviewed at Jaguar Land Rover’s Recall Determination Committee (RDC) on December 1, 2016 where it was acknowledged that this matter is a non-compliance to the requirements of FMVSS 209 but inconsequential to vehicle safety such that a Petition for Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance in accordance with the provisions of Part 556 be filed. The RDC agreed that the performance requirements of FMVSS 208 were met.

On May 2, 2019 Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC received NHTSA’s response to the petition submitted on December 23, 2016.   In this response, NHTSA denied the petition for inconsequential non-compliance and requested Jaguar Land Rover conduct a recall.

There have been no reported accidents, injuries or fires as a result of this concern.

Reviews of published service communications completed in early 2022 revealed an error in the inspection instructions which after investigation with the component supplier were determined to require termination of recall N333 (NHTSA 19V350) and the launch of a replacement recall. The decision was made at the RDC on 29th March 2022.

 


4 Affected Products

Vehicles

MAKEMODELYEAR
LAND ROVERRANGE ROVER2016-2017
LAND ROVERRANGE ROVER SPORT2016-2017

 


14 Associated Documents

Recall 573 Report – April 8, 2022

RCLRPT-22V219-3293.PDF 216.289KB

 


Noncompliance Notice 573 Report

RCLRPT-22V219-5763.PDF 216.274KB

 


N678 Recall Noncompliance Determination Chronology

RMISC-22V219-9597.pdf 79.404KB

 


Recall Acknowledgement

RCAK-22V219-9514.pdf 707.078KB

 


Manufacturer Notices(to Dealers,etc)

RCMN-22V219-8145.pdf 86.414KB

 


Campaign Launch Status: N678 SAFETY RECALL – DRIVER SAFETY BELT ELR OPERATION

RMISC-22V219-9890.pdf 47.441KB

 


CAMPAIGN LAUNCH STATUS

RMISC-22V219-1948.pdf 47.743KB

 


Campaign Launch Status

RMISC-22V219-9493.pdf 71.79KB

 


Remedy Instructions and TSB

RCRIT-22V219-4653.pdf 709.668KB

 


Campaign Launch Status

RMISC-22V219-9626.pdf 48.049KB

 


ISSUED Owner Notification Letter(Part 577)

RCONL-22V219-6318.pdf 269.953KB

 


Presentation Slide

RMISC-22V219-2210.pdf 80.363KB

 


Recall Quarterly Report #1, 2022-3

RCLQRT-22V219-9713.PDF 211.153KB

 


Recall Quarterly Report #2, 2022-4

RCLQRT-22V219-4117.PDF 211.259KB

 


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