2002 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY II — Complaint #574774
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:DRIVELINE filed March 6, 2006
NHTSA complaint #574774 (ODI reference 10151994) concerns a 2002 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY II and was filed on March 6, 2006. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 15, 2006. The vehicle had 62,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Missouri based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:driveline, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 II cohort independently describe similar parking brake:driveline 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 2002 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY II shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
LAND ROVER DISCOVERY II FRONT DRIVE SHAFTS WILL ALWAYS FAIL CATASTROPHICALLY BETWEEN 60,000 TO 70,000 MILES. EVERY LAND ROVER FORUM DISCUSSES THIS AND THE CONSENSUS IS THAT LAND ROVER SHOULD HAVE REPORTED THIS TO NHTSA AS A SAFETY ISSUE. WHEN THEY BREAK THE CONSEQUENCES INCLUDE THE SHAFT GOING INTO THE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT OR TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED INTO NEARBY CARS. EVERY DISCOVERY II ON THE ROAD HAS THESE FRONT SHAFTS FAIL AND THE OWNERS OF THE VEHICLES HAVE NEVER BEEN WARNED OF THIS EXTREME DANGER. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 574774 |
| ODI Number | 10151994 |
| Date Filed | March 6, 2006 |
| Failure Date | February 15, 2006 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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