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Land Rover LR2 2008–2014technical service bulletin

Bulletin SSM71788 · NHTSA communication 10101460 · issued Mar 18, 2014

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Steering
component
2008–2014
model years
7
vehicle entries

Official summary

"issue: in instances where dealers have identified damage to the inner ball joint (ibj) of steering gears on freelander 2/lr2 products, dealers have been replacing complete steering gear assemblies. Cause: previously, the inner ball joints were not available as separate lower level repair items through microcat."

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.