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2003 Land Rover Discovery II service brakes, hydraulic problems

11 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the service brakes, hydraulic on the 2003 Land Rover Discovery II17% of all complaints for this model year.

11
Service Brakes, Hydraulic complaints
17%
share of all complaints
median reported incident mileage
3 / 0
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • 1. Applied the brakes. 2. Every time I apply brakes after vehicle has been started 3. Dealer claims there is nothing which can be done... Apparently all such models have this issue, which generates the question as to why land rover has not been made to do something about this, much like what would…

    filed Oct 20, 2010

  • The defect is already recorded as service bulletin nhtsa item no. 10016118. In short, there is an issue with the shuttle valves in the abs system, which result in the abs/traction control/hill descent warning lamp illumination in the dash, and more importantly may prevent the abs from activating as…

    filed Aug 20, 2009

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Related service bulletins

  • Shuttle valve switch related anti-lock braking system /traction control /hill descent control warning lamp illumination troubleshooting. All land rover discovery series ii. *tt

    700205 · Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions · issued Mar 17, 2006
All 2003 Land Rover Discovery II TSBs →

Service Brakes, Hydraulic problems in other Discovery II years

YearReportsShare
2004 Discovery II418%
2002 Discovery II515%
2001 Discovery II826%
2000 Discovery II1538%
1999 Discovery II1131%
Discovery II service brakes, hydraulic problems by year →

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.