If you are checking a used Land Rover Defender, this hub is the starting point. It is built to gather the practical questions a buyer or owner actually has: what usually goes wrong, which year windows deserve caution, what warning signs matter, and what to check before money changes hands.
The Land Rover Defender is tracked here as a SUV coverage hub. This page is a researched coverage page, not a final reliability verdict. Specific defect claims should come from sourced child pages, not guesswork.
Before buying or ignoring symptoms, verify open recalls by VIN, scan for stored OBD codes, check service history, and use any linked CarFaultIQ fault or symptom pages to decide the next practical step.
Official evidence for this model
Coverage below spans the explicitly mapped model years. Records do not apply to every model year or configuration.
US safety recalls
19 distinct official identifiers · US
Campaigns matched to recorded model years. Only an official VIN check can confirm whether an individual vehicle is affected.
- 26V389000 — model years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2020-2026 Land Rover Defender, 2021-2026 Discovery, and 2022-2026 Range Rover vehicles. The driver’s air bag clockspring connector may corrode, which can cause the air bag not to deploy as intended.
- 26V263000 — model years 2026
Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2026 Land Rover Defender vehicles. The fuel tank was improperly manufactured with walls that are too thin.
- 26V248000 — model years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2021-2024 Land Rover Range Rover Velar and Land Rover Discovery, 2020-2023 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, 2019-2024 Land Rover Range Rover Sport, 2020-2024 Land Rover Range Rover, 2020 Land Rover Discovery Sport, 2020-2024 Land…
Manufacturer communications / TSBs
916 distinct official identifiers · US
Manufacturer service communications are not safety recalls and do not prove that every vehicle has the described condition.
- 11035735 — model years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Intermittent Passive Entry Operation 24MY Or With New Service Smart Key Fob.
- 11035675 — model years 2020, 2021, 2022
Exhaust System Oxygen (O2) Sensors - Extended Warranty
- 11035882 — model years 2025
Blanking Connector - Install
US defect investigations
1 distinct official identifiers · US
An investigation records a regulator review of a suspected defect. It is not automatically a finding or a recall.
- PE25019 — model years 2024
The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has received 1 complaint stating that a rear row seat belt became detached in a model year (MY) 2024 Land Rover Defender.Photos of the seat belt received with the complaint show that the stitching of the webbing of the…
Canadian recalls
16 distinct official identifiers · CA
Canadian-market records remain separate from US campaigns. Confirm applicability with Transport Canada and the manufacturer.
- 2026292 — model years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Issue: On certain vehicles, the connector for the driver-front airbag in the steering wheel could corrode. As a result, the driver-front airbag may not inflate in a crash. Note: This problem would cause the airbag warning light to turn on. Safety Risk: An airbag that…
- 2026206 — model years 2026
Issue: On a small number of vehicles, the fuel tank may not have been manufactured properly. As a result, the wall of the fuel tank may be too thin and could leak fuel in a crash. Safety Risk: A fuel leak can create the risk…
- 2026196 — model years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Issue: On certain vehicles, the DC/DC converter could fail. As a result, the 12 V battery would not charge and a red "Stop Safely Electrical Fault Detected" warning message would be displayed. If this happens, and you continue to drive the vehicle, there could be…
US owner complaint reports
292 distinct reports · US
Distinct ODI complaint identifiers, deduplicated across component and product rows. Reports are allegations, not confirmed defects, failure rates or reliability scores.
- ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: 96 reports
- VISIBILITY/WIPER: 53 reports
- EXTERIOR LIGHTING: 51 reports
A report can name several components. Do not add component totals together.
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