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Land Rover Defender 2020–2023technical service bulletin

Bulletin Defender_N792_21MAR25 · NHTSA communication 11016661 · issued Mar 21, 2025

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Unknown OR Other
component
2020–2023
model years
4
vehicle entries

Official summary

Vehicles are unable to complete software updates through Software Over The Air(SOTA) and require a Telematic Control Unit Module (TCU) SOTA persistency clear application to be completed.

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.