Land Rover Defender 2021–2025 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin D006-06MAY25 · NHTSA communication 11018314 · issued May 6, 2025
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Unknown OR Other
component
2021–2025
model years
17
vehicle entries
Official summary
A potential concern has been identified on certain 2022 model year to 2025 model year Range Rover, 2023 model year to 2025 model year Range Rover Sport and 2021 model year to 2025 model year Defender and Discovery vehicles where the transfer case clutch and / or All Wheel Drive (AWD) lock cannot perform as designed. This may show as a reduction in torque to the front axle during driving or as an inability to apply the AWD lock.
Vehicles covered
- 2021 Land Rover Defender
- 2022 Land Rover Defender
- 2023 Land Rover Defender
- 2024 Land Rover Defender
- 2025 Land Rover Defender
- 2021 Land Rover Discovery
- 2022 Land Rover Discovery
- 2023 Land Rover Discovery
- 2024 Land Rover Discovery
- 2025 Land Rover Discovery
- 2022 Land Rover Range Rover
- 2023 Land Rover Range Rover
- 2024 Land Rover Range Rover
- 2025 Land Rover Range Rover
- 2023 Land Rover Range Rover Sport
- 2024 Land Rover Range Rover Sport
- 2025 Land Rover Range Rover Sport
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.