2020 Land Rover Defender

These are vehicle campaigns — the ones the automaker filed against this model. NHTSA also records equipment recalls, filed by a parts maker against a component (a tyre, a child seat, an aftermarket part), and those are not listed here or counted above. nhtsa.gov/recalls shows both for a VIN.

Most often about: Equipment, Electrical System, Power Train, Engine, Unknown Or Other.

• SSM76493 - 25SEP26 Other
  2026-09-25 · Structure — Body
• Accessory Wheel Arch Protection - Gaps Present Between Protection And Vehicle Body
• SSM76492 - 20AUG26 Other
  2026-08-21 · Unknown Or Other
• TCU Activation Failure And InControl App Inoperative After Software Update
• SSM76487 - 20AUG26 Other
  2026-08-21 · Unknown Or Other
• Air Conditioning Inoperative / Intermittent Operation
• E002 - 20JUL26 Service bulletin
  2026-07-20 · Unknown Or Other
• Exhaust System Oxygen (O2) Sensors - Extended Warranty
• N869 Defender 16JUN26 Other
  2026-06-16 · Unknown Or Other
• Software Over The Air (SOTA) updates are failing to complete. Specifically Vehicle Domain Controller (VDC) PIVI and Gateway Module A (GWM). These vehicles have now been stopped from further SOTA attempts and require a wired intervention.
• N869 Defender 15MAY26 Other
  2026-05-16 · Unknown Or Other
• Software Over The Air (SOTA) updates are failing to complete. Specifically Vehicle Domain Controller (VDC) PIVI and Gateway Module A (GWM). These vehicles have now been stopped from further SOTA attempts and require a wired intervention.
• N811 Defender 15MAY26 Other
  2026-05-16 · Electrical System
• Door Zone Module - Quiescent Drain
• N892v3 - 01MAY26 Service bulletin
  2026-05-01 · Engine
• Arduous customer drive cycles have been found to accelerate the degradation of engine oil, leading to generation of engine oil sludge deposits in high pressure engine oil galleries of the engine and inside the Continuous Variable Valve Lift (CVVL) unit.

A service bulletin is the manufacturer telling its dealers how to diagnose or repair a known condition. It is not a recall, not a finding that the vehicle is defective, and the work is not automatically free — though a bulletin is often what a dealer works from when you describe a symptom, so quoting the document number can save a diagnosis. The count is every communication filed; the list shows the most recent, one entry per campaign, because a single campaign is usually filed as several documents on the same day. The summaries are NHTSA's; the full documents come from the manufacturer.

Codes documented against this model year in the federal record. A code appearing here does not mean this vehicle will set it — it means the code is part of this nameplate-year's documented history.

Generic codes (the second character is 0 or 2) mean the same thing on every vehicle sold in the United States. Manufacturer-specific codes (1 or 3) mean whatever the automaker assigned, and no honest source can define them for you — which is why the ones here carry the evidence instead of a definition. A code is a link when enough separate federal documents name it across the catalogue to be worth a page of its own; the rest are listed here, where the vehicle is the context that makes them mean something.

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In New York’s inspection lanes over the 12 months to Oct 10, 2026, the 2020 Land Rover Defender failed the emissions check on 3.4% of first inspections — higher than the 2.2% for every 2020 model-year vehicle inspected; and the safety inspection on 0.57% (every 2020 vehicle: 1.6%).

New York’s emissions test on these model years is an on-board diagnostics check: it fails a car whose check-engine light is on or whose self-tests have not finished. First inspections only, so a car that failed and came back is counted once; private and special plates, not taxis, livery or commercial plates. A rate appears only where at least 200 inspections stand behind it. “Every 2020 vehicle” is every 2020 model-year car, SUV and pickup inspected in the same window, all makes. This is the state’s record of test results, not a reliability score by itself. Source: New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, Vehicle Inspections (data.ny.gov, Open NY terms).

Paid vehicle-history reports will not tell you the difference between “nothing happened to this car” and “we never received that record” — both of the big two say as much in their own help pages. Most of what is on this page comes from complete federal registers, so we can tell you which is which, row by row.

Rebuilt nightly; this page was generated 2026-10-26. Every figure above is traceable to the source named beside it, and the JSON for this page carries the same values with their identifiers.