Range Rover owners abroad report suspension and air faults for years

What owners abroad report

On PistonHeads' Gassing Station, the question "Are Range Rovers in fact rubbish?" has run to 14 pages. Posters describe air suspension that leaks and drops a corner overnight, dashboard and sensor faults, failed door locks and reversing cameras, and brake calipers that need early replacement. A separate six page thread titled "How reliable or unreliable are Land Rover and Range Rovers" tells a similar story: a Discovery 3 with a blown engine at 53,000 miles just after a dealer service, more than one owner needing roadside recovery for electrical faults, and other Range Rovers running past 190,000 miles with little more than a washer jet problem. Across both threads the tone repeats: parts are expensive, and "once you are bitten by the RR bug you can't go back."

These are forum reports, not a verified fault rate. The threads cover UK owned cars bought new and used, over several years each, and the posters do not agree on how common any one failure is.

The steering knuckle recall

There is an official side to one specific complaint. In August 2025, Jaguar Land Rover filed US recall 25V514 for the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport built at Solihull between October 2014 and November 2017, because the front suspension's upper knuckle joint can develop a crack that lets the upper control arm detach. The recall covers 121,509 SUVs: 54,720 Range Rovers and 66,789 Range Rover Sports, according to CarBuzz's report on the filing.

The problem has not gone away. A follow up recall filed in September 2026 covers a further 14 Range Rovers from 2016 and 2017 whose knuckles, it turns out, were fitted with the wrong part during the first repair, according to CarComplaints.com's report on the new filing. Separately, trade reporting in April 2026 said NHTSA had expanded its scrutiny to 2018 to 2022 model Range Rovers and Range Rover Sports after owners kept filing complaints even on newer cars, as reported by AutoGuide.

What this means in India

Land Rover India sells the current Range Rover from roughly ₹2.40 crore to ₹3.50 crore ex-showroom, before the SV Ultra and SV Sawai special editions that go up to ₹4.9 crore, according to Autocar India's price page. The recalled cars were built in the same Solihull plant that supplies right hand drive markets including India. No recall notice for this knuckle fault appears to have been issued for the Indian market in the searches done for this story.

An owner of a 2014 to 2017 Range Rover or Range Rover Sport in India can ask the dealer directly whether the car's VIN falls in the recalled build window, since JLR India has not published the information as clearly as NHTSA has in the US. If a dealer is unresponsive, owners can escalate through Jaguar Land Rover India's customer care line or file with the National Consumer Helpline. For the broader list of niggles PistonHeads members describe, air suspension height and any warning light should be checked at every service, since the UK threads suggest it rarely fails without warning first.

Sources

• Are Range Rovers in fact rubbish?. PistonHeads Gassing Station
• How reliable/unreliable are land rover and range rovers. PistonHeads Gassing Station
• Range Rover Recalls Over 120,000 SUVs For Faulty Suspension Setups. CarBuzz
• Land Rover Recalls Range Rovers Over Suspension Knuckles. CarComplaints.com
• More Range Rovers Being Investigated For Failing Suspension. AutoGuide
• Land Rover Range Rover price. Autocar India