Land Rover Defender: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 20 recall campaigns for the Land Rover Defender, model years 1990 to 2026. NHTSA has 9 complaints on file for this model line. 7 of the 16 model years have a page on this register.
Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.
NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .
Model years
The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Land Rover Defender | 3 | 0 | 0% | 251,445 |
| 2025 Land Rover Defender NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 250,857 |
| 2024 Land Rover Defender | 7 | 0 | 0% | 475,637 |
| 2023 Land Rover Defender | 9 | 0 | 0% | 487,670 |
| 2022 Land Rover Defender | 6 | 0 | 0% | 458,976 |
| 2021 Land Rover Defender | 9 | 0 | 0% | 494,529 |
| 2020 Land Rover Defender | 7 | 0 | 0% | 461,239 |
| 2003 Land Rover Defender NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 178% | |
| 2002 Land Rover Defender NHTSA page | 0 | 3 | 533% | |
| 2001 Land Rover Defender NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 178% | |
| 1999 Land Rover Defender NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 178% | |
| 1995 Land Rover Defender | 2 | 0 | 0% | 4,409 |
| 1994 Land Rover Defender NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 4,254 |
| 1993 Land Rover Defender NHTSA page | 1 | 2 | 356% | 4,254 |
| 1992 Land Rover Defender NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 4,254 |
| 1990 Land Rover Defender NHTSA page | 0 | 1 | 178% |
The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.
Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.
Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.
Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.
Components in the complaints
12 component mentions.
A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 500 | 6 |
| Visibility | 250 | 3 |
| Tires | 83.3 | 1 |
| Power Train | 83.3 | 1 |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 83.3 | 1 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Range Rover75 campaigns
- Freelander6 campaigns
- Discovery23 campaigns
- Discovery II9 campaigns
- LR36 campaigns
- New Range Rover2 campaigns
- Range Rover Sport54 campaigns
- LR24 campaigns
- LR47 campaigns
- County3 campaigns
- Range Rover Evoque26 campaigns
- Discovery Sport15 campaigns
- Range Rover Velar13 campaigns
- Range Rover Sport Phev2 campaigns
- Range Rover Phev3 campaigns
Land Rover: all 16 model lines
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Land Rover Defender: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/land-rover/defender/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .
Sources
- Source
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
- Licence
- US government work, public domain
- Recall file through
- 29 Sep 2026
- Complaint file through
- 29 Mar 2018
- Manufacturer in the recall file
- RANGE ROVER NA., INC.
The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.
Questions
- Which Land Rover Defender model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2023 with 9, 2021 with 9, 2024 with 7. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Land Rover Defender model year has the most complaints?
- The 2002 model year, with 3 of the 9 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Land Rover Defender name?
- Engine and Engine Cooling: 6 component mentions. Visibility: 3 component mentions. Tires: 1 component mention.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Land Rover Defender?
- 1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.