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Land Rover LR4 2002–2014technical service bulletin

Bulletin SSM51797 · NHTSA communication 10100942 · issued Sep 19, 2013

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2002–2014
model years
26
vehicle entries

Official summary

"issue the outer cover on the remote key can detach from the casing.see attachment. Cause the root cause was found to be that anti rust oil residue remains on the supplier's tooling at the start of a production run."

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.