Land Rover Defender 2021–2025 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin Defender_D006_17OCT25 · NHTSA communication 11024473 · issued Oct 17, 2025
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Unknown OR Other
component
2021–2025
model years
17
vehicle entries
Official summary
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.