Land Rover Discovery (LR), Defender (LE)

The risk

The gasket fixings between the exhaust downpipe and the catalytic converter may not have been tightened to the correct torque and could become loose over time.As a result, hot exhaust gases could leak into the engine compartment, increasing the risk of fire. The product does not comply with the requirements laid down in the Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles.

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · official text, unchanged

Measures taken

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Manufacturer Category of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users Date of entry into force: 19/04/2021

Models on CarsLore

The alert names these models; open one for its complaints, recalls in other countries and inspection results.

• Land Rover Defender
• Land Rover Discovery

Other fire alerts in 2021

76 of the 549 motor vehicle alerts published in 2021 concerned the same risk.

Who notified alerts in 2021

Safety Gate (European Commission) · CC0 · all alerts of 2021

Other recalls for the same models

The same models in recall campaigns from NHTSA, Transport Canada, the EU Safety Gate and the Dutch RDW.

All recalls for this model: Land Rover Defender

More Land Rover alerts

103 EU Safety Gate alerts for Land Rover since 2006; the most were issued in 2026 (12).

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