2022-2026 Land Rover Range Rover Recall: Water May Damage Rearview Camera

On a 2022 to 2026 Range Rover, water coming off the tailgate can collect around the rearview camera instead of draining away. Over time it gets into the camera, and the picture on the touchscreen turns distorted or goes blank when the driver selects reverse.

Land Rover filed NHTSA campaign 26V678000 on October 15, 2026, covering 93,997 Range Rovers built at the Solihull plant in England between July 8, 2021, and June 4, 2026, and estimates that every one of them has the defect. Retailers will drill extra drain holes in the underside of the tailgate trim, check the camera and replace it if it has failed, at no charge. Land Rover's number for the campaign is D171, and interim owner letters mail by December 11, 2026.

The Issue

On the tailgate, the rearview camera sits in a trim piece that Land Rover's filing also names the tailgate bezel. Water from rain and washing reaches the camera from above and has to drain out underneath. On these Range Rovers the tailgate's water management system may not drain it away, so water pools around the camera installation, and repeated soaking damages the camera.

Land Rover lists the component as the tailgate "water management system" and names itself, Jaguar Land Rover Limited of Coventry, as the supplier. The filing gives no part number and does not name the camera's maker.

Retailers drill new holes in the underside of the bezel so the water can run out. In production, Land Rover switched to a revised seal on the tailgate trim piece that houses the camera on June 4, 2026, the last build date in the population.

Affected Models

Model	Model years	Plant	Production dates	Units
Land Rover Range Rover	2022-2026	Solihull, England	Jul 8, 2021 - Jun 4, 2026	93,997

Land Rover's Part 573 does not break the 93,997 out by model year, wheelbase or powertrain. The campaign covers the Range Rover alone. The Discovery had the same drainage fault and its own campaign in July.

Chronology and Investigation

JLR's Product Safety and Compliance Committee opened an investigation on July 31, 2026, into anomalous rear camera replacement rates on the Range Rover. Global warranty data showed the cameras being replaced more often in the U.S. and Canada than in other markets, and an engineering team was assigned to review the claims by hand.

On August 8, the committee's decision forum weighed the case against D145, the Discovery rearview camera recall JLR had launched weeks earlier, and asked for field evidence on whether the replacements were true camera failures. Through August and September the claim review continued, while cameras removed in the U.S. were shipped to the supplier for analysis.

From September 18, a camera replacement needed evidence before JLR would approve it, and JLR saw an apparent significant drop in the claim rate. On October 6, the supplier reported that most cameras in the first returned batch had failed from water ingress, though JLR still could not fully explain why the U.S. and Canada ran higher. The decision forum ordered the recall for those two markets on October 8, and the Part 573 followed on October 15.

For the Discovery, campaign 26V458 covers 15,535 vehicles from the 2021 to 2025 model years, built in Nitra, Slovakia, with the same remedy. JLR's investigation there opened in February 2026 on a small cluster of 2021 Discovery camera replacements. The supplier found nothing wrong inside those cameras, and it took physical and virtual analysis of the installation to show that water could pool around the camera in heavy rain. Discovery owner letters went out September 10, 2026.

Reported Incidents

JLR has received 2,295 U.S. claims and field reports involving a Range Rover camera replacement, dated from August 3, 2022, to September 28, 2026, and its filing records no U.S. accidents, injuries or fires from the defect.

By my arithmetic, the Range Rover's 2,295 claims across 93,997 vehicles come to about 2.4 percent; the Discovery campaign rested on 100 U.S. claims and field reports across 15,535 vehicles, about 0.6 percent. That Range Rover figure counts replacements claimed, which is the number the August 8 forum questioned, and the supplier's teardown found water ingress in the majority of the first batch it examined.

Remedy and Notification

A Land Rover retailer will drill the additional drain holes, verify that the camera works and replace it if it does not, at no charge. Owners who previously paid for a camera replacement can seek reimbursement under JLR's general reimbursement plan on file with NHTSA.

Retailers are notified October 29, 2026. Interim letters describing the safety risk mail by December 11, and NHTSA's summary says a second letter will follow once the final remedy is available, although the Part 573 already describes the drilling as the permanent repair. JLR attached no do-not-drive or park-outside advisory, and NHTSA has not listed a date when VINs become searchable. Land Rover's customer line is 800-637-6837, and the recall number to quote is D171.

Symptoms to Watch For Before the Camera Fails

A blurred or warped reversing image. The Part 573 names a blurred or distorted picture on the touchscreen as one of two ways a water-damaged camera shows itself.

A blank screen in reverse. Its other failure is no image at all when the camera view is requested.

A faulty rear section in the surround view. Every Range Rover's standard 3D Surround Camera uses the rear camera as one of its feeds, so a failing unit can also spoil the rear of the top-down view.

A camera replaced once before. A new camera in the same housing faces the same drainage, so a Range Rover that had one changed under warranty still needs the drilling.

How Long Will the Recall Repair Take?

Land Rover has not yet posted its dealer instructions for D171. The Discovery instructions for D145 show the shape of the job on that model: the technician marks a point on the camera housing, drills a 2 mm pilot hole and steps it up through 4 mm and 6 mm to 7 mm, no deeper than 10 mm into the plastic, deburrs it by hand with a 9 mm bit and then checks the camera image on the center display. JLR pays 0.1 hours for that modification, plus 0.2 hours when the vehicle comes in for this work alone. A replacement camera goes through a separate related-damage claim that requires evidence of the fault, and it adds time to the visit.

Bottom Line

A Range Rover whose camera works today is still in the population, and the drilling, a short job on the Discovery, gives water a way out before it can soak the camera. If the image is already distorted or blank, reverse on the mirrors and a look over the shoulder until the camera is replaced.

Retailers have the recall from October 29, so an owner who phones before the December letter can ask whether the VIN is under D171.

Find your Range Rover recall information: https://www.landroverusa.com/ownership/vin-recall.html

JLR limited the recall to the U.S. and Canada, where JLR's warranty data showed Range Rover rear cameras being replaced at a higher rate than in other markets. JLR reports 2,295 U.S. claims and field reports and no accidents, injuries or fires.

A matching tailgate drainage fault produced campaign 26V458 (JLR D145) in July 2026, covering 15,535 2021-2025 Land Rover Discovery models built in Slovakia on the strength of 100 U.S. claims and field reports. The Range Rover population is about six times larger.