Land Rover LR2 2008–2014 — technical 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."
Vehicles covered
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.