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NHTSA Safety Recalls

Land Rover Discovery II Recalls by Year

NHTSA's files hold 10 recall campaigns for the Land Rover Discovery II, across 2 model years from 2000 to 2001. The 2000 has the most (10); the fewest among years with a recall is 2001 (6).

Model years
2

2000–2001, with a recall

Recall campaigns
10
Most recalls
2000

10 recalls

Owner complaints
190

all model years, NHTSA

Owners have filed 190 complaints with NHTSA about the Land Rover Discovery II across 5 model years; the most, 63, concern the 2003.

Owners marked a crash on 28 of the Land Rover Discovery II complaints (15%) and a fire on 10.

Across all Land Rover Discovery II model years, owners name the engine and engine cooling most often (at least 56 complaints), then the service brakes, hydraulic (43).

NHTSA received the most complaints about the Land Rover Discovery II in 2007: 28, across all model years.

The component recalled most often on the Land Rover Discovery II is service brakes, hydraulic: antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip, in 4 model-year listings.

The newest Land Rover Discovery II recall, 04V005000, was reported on January 6, 2004 and concerns the service brakes, hydraulic: antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip.

Land Rover Discovery II years to avoid

Too few Land Rover Discovery II model years have a complete complaint window to rank them: 2 of the 5 needed.

The ranking uses owner complaints in each model year's first years on the road, adjusted for NHTSA's complaint volume for that model year. It is not adjusted for sales and is not a reliability rating. Method

Recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA recalls and owner complaints for the Land Rover Discovery II, by model year
YearRecallsComplaintsFirst yearsvs median year
20040225not ranked
200306319not ranked
20020349not ranked
20016317not ranked
2000104011not ranked

First years: complaints received from the year before the model year to three years after it.Land Rover Discovery II years without a link have no recall page on this site.

What gets recalled most on the Land Rover Discovery II

  • SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP4
  • ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING2
  • ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE2
  • ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL:AUTOMATIC (ASC)2
  • POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DRIVESHAFT2
  • VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL2
  • EQUIPMENT:MECHANICAL:WINCH2

Land Rover Discovery II model-year listings per recall component; one campaign can cover several years.

Every Land Rover Discovery II recall campaign (10)

NHTSA recall campaigns covering the Land Rover Discovery II, newest first
CampaignComponentYearsRisk namedVehicles
04V005000January 6, 2004service brakes, hydraulic: antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip2000–2001crash100,174
04V006000January 6, 2004engine and engine cooling2000–2001fire5,264
02V028000January 23, 2002vehicle speed control2000–2001crash64,925
02V022000January 22, 2002service brakes, hydraulic: antilock/traction control/electronic limited slip2000–2001—55,505
01V229001July 6, 2001equipment: mechanical: winch2000–2001fire21
00V423000December 27, 2000engine and engine cooling: engine2000fire38
00V142001October 16, 2000electronic stability control: automatic (asc)2000—36,911
00V142000May 17, 2000electronic stability control: automatic (asc)2000—7,120
00V036000February 11, 2000engine and engine cooling: engine2000fire2,838
12E010000power train: driveline: driveshaft2000–2001crash and injury—

Vehicles: NHTSA's count of potentially affected vehicles in the whole campaign, not only the Land Rover Discovery II. Each campaign page has the defect, risk and fix in NHTSA's words.

Newest record on this page: July 26, 2019. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted