Land Rover Discovery: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 23 recall campaigns for the Land Rover Discovery, model years 1994 to 2026. NHTSA has 281 complaints on file for this model line. 15 of the 21 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.
- 19941
- 19953
- 19962
- 19971
- 19981
- 19992
- 20001
- 20011
- 20020
- 20031
- 20040
- 20173
- 20184
- 20194
- 20206
- 20216
- 20226
- 20236
- 20245
- 20252
- 20261
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Land Rover Discovery NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 250,857 |
| 2025 Land Rover Discovery | 2 | 0 | 0% | 266,392 |
| 2024 Land Rover Discovery | 5 | 0 | 0% | 462,251 |
| 2023 Land Rover Discovery | 6 | 0 | 0% | 471,889 |
| 2022 Land Rover Discovery | 6 | 0 | 0% | 471,889 |
| 2021 Land Rover Discovery | 6 | 0 | 0% | 494,308 |
| 2020 Land Rover Discovery | 6 | 0 | 0% | 101,854 |
| 2019 Land Rover Discovery | 4 | 0 | 0% | 70,337 |
| 2018 Land Rover Discovery | 4 | 0 | 0% | 58,305 |
| 2017 Land Rover Discovery | 3 | 0 | 0% | 33,331 |
| 2004 Land Rover Discovery NHTSA page | 0 | 15 | 112% | |
| 2003 Land Rover Discovery NHTSA page | 1 | 23 | 172% | 3,291 |
| 2002 Land Rover Discovery NHTSA page | 0 | 10 | 75% | |
| 2001 Land Rover Discovery NHTSA page | 1 | 10 | 75% | 59,445 |
| 2000 Land Rover Discovery | 1 | 27 | 202% | 59,445 |
| 1999 Land Rover Discovery | 2 | 17 | 127% | 71,028 |
| 1998 Land Rover Discovery | 1 | 30 | 224% | 54,488 |
| 1997 Land Rover Discovery | 1 | 34 | 254% | 54,488 |
| 1996 Land Rover Discovery | 2 | 55 | 411% | 75,377 |
| 1995 Land Rover Discovery | 3 | 45 | 336% | 75,532 |
| 1994 Land Rover Discovery NHTSA page | 1 | 15 | 112% | 54,488 |
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
373 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic | 163.5 | 61 |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 118 | 44 |
| Vehicle Speed Control | 83.1 | 31 |
| Electrical System | 80.4 | 30 |
| Power Train | 75.1 | 28 |
| Structure | 64.3 | 24 |
| Air Bags | 53.6 | 20 |
| Fuel System, Gasoline | 53.6 | 20 |
| Steering | 50.9 | 19 |
| Visibility | 50.9 | 19 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- Range Rover75 campaigns
- Freelander6 campaigns
- Discovery II9 campaigns
- LR36 campaigns
- New Range Rover2 campaigns
- Range Rover Sport54 campaigns
- LR24 campaigns
- Defender20 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 Discovery: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/land-rover/discovery/. 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
- ROVER GROUP, LIMITED
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 model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2023 with 6, 2022 with 6, 2021 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Land Rover Discovery model year has the most complaints?
- The 1996 model year, with 55 of the 281 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 name?
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 163.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 118 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 83.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Land Rover Discovery?
- 2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.