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1998 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY — Complaint #445605

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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:INTERIOR/UNDER DASH filed December 17, 2003

NHTSA complaint #445605 (ODI reference 10051700) concerns a 1998 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY and was filed on December 17, 2003. The vehicle had 80,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:wiring:interior/under dash, 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 DISCOVERY cohort independently describe similar electrical system:wiring:interior/under dash 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 1998 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1998 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY
Component
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:INTERIOR/UNDER DASH
State
Texas
Mileage
80,000 mi

Complaint Description

DASHLIGHTS AND TAIL LIGHTS MALFUNCTIONED DUE TO AN ELECTRICAL SHORT. DEALER WAS UNABLE TO REPAIR THE PROBLEM. *AK

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 445605
ODI Number 10051700
Date Filed December 17, 2003
VIN SALJY1243WA

Similar ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:INTERIOR/UNDER DASH Complaints for 1998 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.