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Substantial Defect
One that impairs the use, value or safety of the vehicle. Stalling, brake failure, steering and persistent electrical faults qualify. A rattle generally does not.
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LAND ROVER LEMON LAW.
Land Rover recalled 121,509 Range Rovers for a steering knuckle that can fracture — then took nine months to send the owner letters. NHTSA is now investigating 331,559 more.
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EXPLORE ↓What Decides It
Four facts, in this order.
Land Rover built it, but Land Rover does not decide it. These four questions decide it, and the repair orders in your glovebox answer all four.
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Repair Attempts
Florida looks for three attempts at the same defect. New York looks for four. Recall work and visits that found nothing both count.
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Days Out of Service
Thirty cumulative days in Florida and in New York. Cumulative, not consecutive, and the days count whether or not anything was fixed.
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Coverage Window
The defect has to be reported while the vehicle is inside the warranty or rights period. When it was reported matters more than today's date.
The most useful fact about a Land Rover claim is not a defect. It is a date. Campaign 25V514, covering 121,509 Range Rover and Range Rover Sport vehicles for a front suspension upper knuckle joint that can crack and let the suspension arm detach, was reported to NHTSA on 8 August 2025. Owner notification letters did not go out until 11 May 2026 — about nine months later.
Campaign 26V248, covering 170,169 vehicles for a DC-DC converter failure that kills 12-volt charging and can cause complete loss of drive power and exterior lighting, sent letters in June 2026 with the remedy explicitly not ready — further correspondence promised once final repairs were available.
That lag is the whole argument. Florida's presumption threshold is 30 or more cumulative days out of service, the same as New York's, and those days accumulate while you wait for a part that does not exist. Written notice to the manufacturer is triggered earlier, at 15 days. A generic "more than 15 days" line understates what actually happens to Land Rover owners.
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Recall or Claim
A recall says the manufacturer knows. A nine-month wait says they cannot fix it yet.
A recall is the manufacturer acknowledging that a defect exists across a population of vehicles and offering a remedy. It is a public admission of the fault pattern, which makes it useful evidence. What it is not is a Lemon Law claim.
The claim arises from what happened to your vehicle: the defect was reported, the manufacturer was given a reasonable number of attempts to repair it, and it is still there.
The steering knuckle matter is not settled. NHTSA upgraded its investigation to an Engineering Analysis in April 2026 covering 331,559 vehicles — roughly 210,000 beyond the recall population — and the scope runs to 2022 while the recall covers only 2014 to 2017. For uncracked knuckles the remedy is a retaining bracket rather than a new part.
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Every day out of service counts, whether or not the repair exists yet.
Acknowledged in August. Letters in May.
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WHAT KEEPS COMING BACK.
These are the defect categories that generate the most Lemon Law and warranty claims against Land Rover. A vehicle showing one of these is not automatically a claim. A vehicle showing one of these repeatedly and unrepaired usually is.
Front Steering Knuckle Fracture
The cast aluminium front steering knuckle can crack at the upper clevis joint and release the upper suspension arm, producing sudden loss of directional control. 121,509 vehicles recalled and 331,559 still under federal investigation.
Suspension Arm and Air Suspension
Suspension arm detachment is the subject of an active NHTSA engineering analysis, and air suspension collapse and ride-height faults are among the most persistent owner-reported Range Rover complaints outside any recall.
Loss of 12-Volt Charging
A failed DC-DC converter in mild-hybrid models kills 12-volt charging and can shut down drive power and exterior lighting mid-journey, affecting 170,169 US vehicles across seven Land Rover nameplates.
Pivi Pro Blank Screen
The Pivi Pro centre touchscreen can go blank on startup, disabling the display and the rearview camera feed with it. JLR logged 1,025 US field reports before the 28,370-vehicle recall.
Rearview Camera Failure
Two separate campaigns cover rearview camera loss, one from touchscreen software and one from water pooling behind the camera because of insufficient drain holes — both reducing rear visibility.
Driver Airbag Connector Corrosion
Corrosion at the driver's airbag clockspring connector can stop the airbag deploying in a crash. Campaign 26V389 is the largest recent Land Rover action at 250,857 vehicles.
Where It Ends Up
Four ways a Land Rover claim resolves.
Which one applies depends on the state, the facts and what gets negotiated with Jaguar Land Rover. All four start with the same free case review.
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Recall record and open investigation · NHTSA · September 2026
LAND ROVER121,509 RECALLED. 331,559 STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION.
01 / 2020-2026
250,857
Driver airbag may not deploy — Defender, Discovery and Range Rover. The driver's airbag clockspring connector may corrode so the airbag does not deploy as intended in a crash.
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02 / 2019-2024
170,169
Total loss of drive power — Range Rover, Sport, Evoque, Velar, Discovery, Discovery Sport and Defender. A DC-DC converter fault kills 12-volt charging and can cut drive power and lighting.
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03 / 2014-2017
121,509
Suspension arm detaches — Range Rover and Range Rover Sport. The front suspension upper knuckle joint may crack, letting the suspension arm detach and causing loss of control.
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04 / 2023-2024
28,370
Touchscreen goes blank — Discovery Sport, Range Rover Evoque and Defender. The centre console touchscreen may go blank at startup, so the rearview camera image does not display.
Check My Case ↗NHTSA upgraded its steering knuckle investigation to Engineering Analysis EA26003 in April 2026, covering 331,559 vehicles — roughly 210,000 beyond the recall population — and extending the scope to 2022 while the recall covers only 2014 to 2017. Figures from NHTSA as of 23 September 2026.
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General information about Lemon Law and warranty claims, not legal advice. What applies to a particular vehicle depends on its records, its warranty and the state where it was bought.
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It counts on its own, and with Land Rover it is often the strongest fact in the case. Campaign 25V514 was reported to NHTSA in August 2025 but owner letters did not go out until May 2026. Campaign 26V248 sent letters with the remedy explicitly not ready. Florida and New York both set the presumption at 30 or more cumulative days out of service — days accumulate whether or not the repair exists yet. In Florida, written notice is triggered earlier, at 15 days.
No. NHTSA upgraded its investigation to Engineering Analysis EA26003 in April 2026, covering 331,559 vehicles — roughly 210,000 beyond the 121,509 already recalled — and extending the model-year scope to 2022 while the recall covers only 2014 to 2017. For uncracked knuckles the remedy is a retaining bracket rather than a replacement part.
That may be campaign 26V248, covering 170,169 vehicles across seven Land Rover nameplates plus two Jaguars. An internal fault in the DC-DC converter's boost control microchip causes loss of 12-volt charging and can lead to complete loss of drive power and exterior lighting. Losing drive power in traffic plainly impairs use and safety.
Not one we can point to. Air suspension collapse and ride-height faults are among the most persistent Range Rover owner complaints but they are handled as warranty repairs rather than through a campaign. A recall is useful evidence, not a requirement — the repair orders prove the attempts on their own, including the visits where the fault could not be replicated.
That is documented. JLR logged 1,025 US field reports before recalling 28,370 Discovery Sport, Range Rover Evoque and Defender vehicles whose centre console touchscreen can go blank at startup, so the rearview camera image does not display. A separate campaign covers cameras failing because water pools behind them through insufficient drain holes.
No. A recall is the manufacturer acknowledging that a defect exists across a population of vehicles and offering a remedy. A Lemon Law claim arises from what happened to your specific vehicle: a substantial defect, reported inside the coverage period, that the manufacturer was given a reasonable number of attempts to repair and did not. The recall is useful evidence within that claim, not a substitute for it.
Yes, where the recall remedy addressed the defect at issue and the fault persisted afterward. Owners frequently leave recall visits out of their own count because the work was free and manufacturer-initiated, which weakens the record unnecessarily. If the vehicle went in for the fault and came back with the fault, it was an attempt.
Florida's presumption generally arises after three repair attempts for the same defect, or after the vehicle has been out of service for 30 or more cumulative days during the Lemon Law rights period. A separate and earlier trigger applies at 15 cumulative days, when written notice goes to the manufacturer. It is a presumption rather than a fixed requirement — a defect serious enough to be dangerous can qualify with fewer attempts, and the presumption is one route to the remedy rather than the only one.
New York generally looks for four repair attempts for the same defect, or 30 or more days out of service, within the first two years or 18,000 miles. The framework is close to Florida's but the thresholds and the arbitration process differ, and a vehicle bought in one state and serviced in another needs the applicable law identified early.
One that impairs the use, value or safety of the vehicle. Stalling, brake failure, steering faults and persistent electrical problems clearly qualify. A rattle or a trim complaint generally does not. Between those extremes the answer depends on how the fault affects the vehicle in normal use, and on what the repair orders actually say about it.
State Lemon Law is primarily directed at qualifying new and demonstrator vehicles. A used Land Rover can still carry rights where a manufacturer or dealer warranty was active when the defect was reported, generally under federal warranty law including the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which does not carry the same new-vehicle limitation.
A leased vehicle can be covered where it meets the same substantive requirements that apply to a purchase. The calculation of any refund is tied to the amounts actually paid into the lease rather than the full vehicle price, and the leasing company is dealt with as part of the resolution rather than left to be sorted out afterward.
That visit still counts as a repair attempt. Intermittent faults are extremely common in software, camera and electrical systems, and a growing share of manufacturer campaigns are software-related. A record of repeated visits where the fault was reported and not resolved is precisely the pattern the law addresses. Ask for the complaint to be written down in your words, and keep the copy that says it could not be verified.
Three, in practice. A repurchase, where the manufacturer buys the vehicle back and refunds what was paid, less a statutory offset for the miles driven before the first report of the defect. A replacement with a comparable vehicle. Or a cash settlement where the vehicle stays with you and the manufacturer pays for the diminished value. Which applies depends on the state, the facts and what is negotiated.
Broadly: the purchase price plus collateral and incidental charges, minus a mileage offset tied to the distance driven before the defect was first reported. Registration, taxes and finance charges are frequently recoverable. The offset is the part manufacturers most often calculate in their own favour, and it is worth checking line by line.
Other Manufacturers
The badge does not decide the claim.
The law applies the same way to every brand sold in the state. What differs is the defect pattern, the warranty terms and how hard the manufacturer fights.
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