Recall Register

Land Rover Discovery II: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Land Rover Discovery II, model years 1999 to 2004. NHTSA has 225 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 6 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.

  1. 19996
  2. 20009
  3. 20015
  4. 20023
  5. 20032
  6. 20041
Land Rover Discovery II: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2004 Land Rover Discovery II NHTSA page12259%100,174
2003 Land Rover Discovery II263168%105,438
2002 Land Rover Discovery II33491%170,363
2001 Land Rover Discovery II53183%225,889
2000 Land Rover Discovery II939104%272,796
1999 Land Rover Discovery II63696%267,473

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

278 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.

Land Rover Discovery II: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling212.259
Service Brakes, Hydraulic20557
Power Train133.137
Vehicle Speed Control57.616
Air Bags46.813
Electrical System43.212
Engine3610
Steering32.49
Service Brakes, Air25.27
Structure21.66

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Land Rover Discovery II, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2000, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Land Rover Discovery II, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2008, with 31 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Land Rover: all 16 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Land Rover Discovery II: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/land-rover/discovery-ii/. 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
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
LAND ROVER

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 Discovery II model years have the most recall campaigns?
2000 with 9, 1999 with 6, 2001 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Land Rover Discovery II model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 63 of the 225 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Land Rover Discovery II name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 212.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 205 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 133.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Land Rover Discovery II?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.