Recall Register

1998 Land Rover Discovery: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the 1998 Land Rover Discovery. The campaign is 98V040000. NHTSA received the report on 24 Feb 1998. The NHTSA record gives the component Air Bags / Frontal. NHTSA has 30 complaints on file for this model year.

The NHTSA recall file shows no do-not-drive advisory and no park-outside advisory on this campaign.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Remedy of campaign 98V040000, in the NHTSA record

Dealers will install a fusible link which will protect the rotary coupler from overheating.

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Recall campaigns

1 campaign. 54,488 units in total.

  1. 98V040000Received . 54,488 units.

    Air Bags / Frontal

    Defect, in the NHTSA record
    Vehicle description: passenger vehicles. As a result of chaffing of a cruise control wire, the steering wheel rotary coupler can overheat and inadvertently deploy the driver's air bag.
    Consequence, in the NHTSA record
    Deployment of the air bag restraint system without warning can cause a driver to lose vehicle control.
    Remedy, in the NHTSA record
    Dealers will install a fusible link which will protect the rotary coupler from overheating.

    Report filed by ROVER GROUP, LIMITED. Owner notification date in the NHTSA record: .

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Complaints by component

30 complaints, 40 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1998 Land Rover Discovery: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Electrical System5
Seat Belts5
Steering4
Power Train4
Service Brakes, Hydraulic4
Air Bags3
Unknown or Other2
Engine and Engine Cooling2
Fuel System, Gasoline2
Visibility2

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 17.

Complaints that report a crash
6
Complaints that report a fire
2
Injuries in the complaints
5
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
3 Jun 2010

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1998 Land Rover Discovery, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 5 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19941
  2. 19953
  3. 19962
  4. 19971
  5. 19981
  6. 19992
  7. 20001
  8. 20011
  9. 20020
  10. 20031
  11. 20040
  12. 20173
  13. 20184
  14. 20194
  15. 20206
  16. 20216
  17. 20226
  18. 20236
  19. 20245
  20. 20252
  21. 20261

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1998 Land Rover Discovery: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/land-rover/discovery/1998/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
ROVER GROUP, LIMITED

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Questions

How many units are in the recall campaigns for the 1998 Land Rover Discovery?
54,488 units in 1 campaign. A campaign can name other models and model years, and its units include them.
How many recall campaigns does the Land Rover Discovery have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 23 recall campaigns for the Land Rover Discovery, model years 1994 to 2026. 1 of them names the 1998 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1998 Land Rover Discovery name most often?
Electrical System: 5 of 40 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1998 Land Rover Discovery open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.