2021 LAND ROVER DEFENDER — Complaint #2137968
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NHTSA Complaint about EXTERIOR LIGHTING filed October 9, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2137968 (ODI reference 11692392) concerns a 2021 LAND ROVER DEFENDER and was filed on October 9, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 6, 2025. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as exterior lighting, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same LAND ROVER DEFENDER cohort independently describe similar exterior lighting failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2021 LAND ROVER DEFENDER shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The halo headlight went out, and I have an extended warranty that supposedly doesn't cover it. After researching, this seems to be a national event. The headlights need to be recalled and the manufacturer needs to be held accountable.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2137968 |
| ODI Number | 11692392 |
| Date Filed | October 9, 2025 |
| Failure Date | October 6, 2025 |
| VIN | SALE37RU2M2 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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