Land Rover Defender. Published by Transport Canada as 2021353 on 3 June 2021. System: Engine.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles equipped with a 6-cylinder engine, a software problem in the Powertrain Control Module (PCM) could cause the engine to turn off suddenly while driving.
Safety Risk:
A sudden loss of engine power could increase the risk of a crash.
Corrective Actions:
Land Rover will notify …
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Land Rover DEFENDER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Land Rover DEFENDER is named on 14 American notices, 33 British, 22 European, 4 Japanese and 7 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European register
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/1280/14: Land Rover Defender 110 SDT, Defender 110 HD, Defender 130 SDT And (New) Defender 90 SDT & Defender 90 HD, notified by United Kingdom
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/1279/14: Land Rover Defender, notified by United Kingdom
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/0208/16: Land Rover Defender, notified by Germany
The Japanese register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2021353
- Recall date
- 3 June 2021
- Make
- Land Rover
- Models
- Defender
- Model years
- 2020 to 2021
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Engine
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 19
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles equipped with a 6-cylinder engine, a software problem in the Powertrain Control Module (PCM) could cause the engine to turn off suddenly while driving.Safety Risk:
A sudden loss of engine power could increase the risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
Land Rover will notify owners by mail and send a wireless over-the-air software update to each vehicle. If the update cannot be completed successfully, you will be notified to schedule an appointment to have the update performed by a dealer.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2021353.
Land Rover elsewhere in this register
Land Rover is named on 127 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2021355 · 8 June 2021 · Defender · Lights And Instruments
- 2021381 · 17 June 2021 · Discovery · Electrical
- 2021408 · 1 July 2021 · Defender · Seats And Restraints
- 2021533 · 26 August 2021 · Range Rover Velar, Discovery Sport, Defender · Seats And Restraints
- 2021102 · 25 February 2021 · Discovery, Range Rover Velar, Range Rover Sport · Lights And Instruments
- 2020533 · 10 November 2020 · Discovery · Electrical
- 2020529 · 5 November 2020 · Evoque, Discovery Sport · Electrical
- 2020473 · 8 October 2020 · Range Rover Sport · Structure
The same system: Engine
287 notices in this register name Engine. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2021414 · 2 July 2021 · Tuono 660 · Engine
- 2021215 · 9 April 2021 · Smax · Engine
- 2021204 · 6 April 2021 · Soul · Engine
- 2021202 · 5 April 2021 · Q60, Q50 · Engine
- 2021607 · 29 September 2021 · SL100, SP70 · Engine
- 2021612 · 1 October 2021 · Tucson, Sonata · Engine
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Land Rover Defender, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Land Rover: 127 in the register, and 658 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2021.
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