2016 Land Rover Range Rover Sport defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2016 Land Rover Range Rover Sport. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Front Steering Knuckle Fractures
  Engineering Analysis EA26003 · opened Apr 24, 2026 · still open

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) is upgrading its Preliminary Evaluation (PE25006) of front steering knuckle fractures on model year (MY) 2014 through 2017 Range Rover Sport vehicles to an Engineering Analysis. ODI opened PE25006 on June 27, 2025, after receiving 12 Vehicle Owner's Questionnaire (VOQ) reports …

• Front Steering Knuckle Fractures
  Preliminary Evaluation PE25006 · opened Jun 27, 2025 · closed Apr 24, 2026

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) is upgrading its Preliminary Evaluation (PE25006) of front steering knuckle fractures on model year (MY) 2014 through 2017 Range Rover Sport vehicles to an Engineering Analysis. ODI opened PE25006 on June 27, 2025, after receiving 12 Vehicle Owner's Questionnaire (VOQ) reports …

• Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture
  Engineering Analysis EA21002 · opened Sep 17, 2021 · still open

  From 2000 through 2017, Takata produced millions of air bag inflators using two types of phase-stabilized ammonium nitrate ("PSAN") propellant -- propellant 2004 and propellant 2004L. After prolonged exposure to high temperature cycles and humidity, inflators using propellant 2004 can degrade, causing the propellant to…

• Door latch failure
  Engineering Analysis EA18004 · opened Jul 2, 2018 · closed Oct 17, 2019 · led to recall 19V392000

  On May 24, 2019, Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (JLR) submitted two Part 573 letters to NHTSA describing door latch defects that could result in doors opening while driving in certain model year (MY) 2013-2016 Range Rover and Range Rover Sport vehicles equipped with JLR?s Unilatch Keyless Vehicle (KV) entry syste…

• Door Latch Open While Driving
  Recall Query RQ17005 · opened Aug 4, 2017 · closed Jul 3, 2018

  On June 11, 2015, Jaguar-Land Rover (JLR) submitted a Defect Information Report (DIR) to NHTSA describing a defect condition in the electronically controlled door latch systems of approximately 65,372 model year (MY) 2013-2016 Range Rover and MY 2014-2016 Range Rover Sport that may result in incidents of door opening w…