Land Rover Range Rover 1999 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SRE0008 · NHTSA communication 616000 · issued Dec 8, 2000
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Engine and Engine Cooling
component
1999
model years
1
vehicle entries
Official summary
Subject regarding vehicles safety recall campaign d223. Land rover has determined that the throttle body heater gasket used in the manufacture of bosch engine management system on vehicles between vins xa400939 and xa418689 could fail in service. The resulting loss of fluid from this component represents a risk of fire under certain circumstances. The improved gasket used in current production will be installed on recalled vehicles which have not been previously upgraded to the current standard. *tt
Vehicles covered
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.