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2025 Land Rover Defender

Every safety complaint, recall and defect investigation the US government holds on this vehicle.

12

Complaints

0

Crashes

1

Fires

0

Injuries

0

Deaths

Owners of the 2025 Land Rover Defender have filed 12 safety complaints with NHTSA between July 2025 and July 2026. The most complained-about system is visibility and the wipers, named in 7 of them (58%).

NHTSA has issued 1 recall covering this vehicle.

Recalls (1)

AIR BAGS:FRONTAL

26V389000 · June 12, 2026

The defect
Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC (Land Rover) is recalling certain 2020-2026 Land Rover Defender, 2021-2026 Discovery, and 2022-2026 Range Rover vehicles. The driver’s air bag clockspring connector may corrode, which can cause the air bag not to deploy as intended.
The risk
An air bag that does not deploy as intended increases the risk of injury in a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will apply a protective lubricant gel to the driver’s air bag connector terminals, free of charge. Owner letters were mailed August 3, 2026. Owners may contact Land Rover's customer service at 800-637-6837. Land Rover's number for this recall is D120.

Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC · up to 250,857 vehicles across all model years covered

What owners report

Complaints naming each system. One complaint can name several, so these add up to more than 12.

VISIBILITY/WIPER 7 58%
POWER TRAIN 3 25%
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 2 17%
ENGINE 1 8%
FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM 1 8%
STEERING 1 8%
UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 8%

When the complaints arrived

By the year NHTSA received them, which is not the year the failures happened. They peaked in 2026 at 10.

2025 2026
2025 to 2026, the last of them a part year

In owners' own words

Quoted from NHTSA's complaint file. These are unverified accounts by the people who filed them, not findings of fault.

FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM

fire

I was driving on [XXX] In Sarasota County, Florida, at approximately 70mph I witnessed flames coming from passenger rear portion of the car, I pulled over and jumped out at the interior was filled with smoke. In less than 15 minutes the car completely burned to nothing but black molten metal. The vehicle was purchased new, had been on order for over 5 months and had approximately 1,300 miles on it, and was only approximately 45 days in my possession. The vehicle was inspected by police and fire department, it has been towed to the local Land Rover dealer in Sarasota, Florida. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6)

NHTSA complaint 11690159. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

VISIBILITY/WIPER
The windshield cracked the 1st week owned the car. Land Rover didn’t warranty the windshield and have to buy a new one for 2500. The second windshield got a rock chip and now it expanded into a crack over 3 days.

NHTSA complaint 11750447. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

VISIBILITY/WIPER
I am now on my 4th windshield on my 2025 Land Rover Defender 110. I have had 5 chips/cracks on these windshields. Only 1 crack was from a rock that you might expect glass breakage, the others were all caused by small pebble sized road gravel that was more like insect splatter. Safelite was repairing 1 very small chip and the windshield cracked during this common repair. Clearly the provided glass is substandard and should be upgraded for all Land Rover Defenders. I now never drive this car without the thought of another windshield break that’s about to occur.

NHTSA complaint 11736331. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

VISIBILITY/WIPER
I am now on my 4th windshield on my 2025 Land Rover Defender 110. I have had 5 chips/cracks on these windshields. Only 1 crack was from a rock that you might expect glass breakage, the others were all caused by small pebble sized road gravel that was more like insect splatter. Safelite was repairing 1 very small chip and the windshield cracked during this common repair. Clearly the provided glass is substandard and should be upgraded for all Land Rover Defenders. I now never drive this car without the thought of another windshield break that’s about to occur.

NHTSA complaint 11736333. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

VISIBILITY/WIPER
I am now on my 4th windshield on my 2025 Land Rover Defender 110. I have had 5 chips/cracks on these windshields. Only 1 crack was from a rock that you might expect glass breakage, the others were all caused by small pebble sized road gravel that was more like insect splatter. Safelite was repairing 1 very small chip and the windshield cracked during this common repair. Clearly the provided glass is substandard and should be upgraded for all Land Rover Defenders. I now never drive this car without the thought of another windshield break that’s about to occur.

NHTSA complaint 11736334. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

VISIBILITY/WIPER
30 years of car ownership have never had a chipped or cracked windshield. 2025 Land Rover Defender has had 3 rock chips in a year and now a 20" crack from very minor impact from a pebble. This windshield has a design flaw and is extremely fragile.

NHTSA complaint 11726310. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

VISIBILITY/WIPER
Driving down the road and my windshield spontaneously cracked. No road debris, no rock, no trauma or accident.

NHTSA complaint 11721273. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

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Other years of the Land Rover Defender

Model year Complaints Recalls Deaths
2024 24 5 —
2023 78 8 —
2022 71 5 —
2021 38 8 —
2020 52 6 —

Other 2025 Land Rover models

Range Rover Sport 10 Range Rover 8

Every Land Rover on this site — 72 vehicles, 152 recall campaigns and 3 open investigation s.

If this is your car and a dealer keeps failing to fix it, your state's lemon law may require the manufacturer to replace it or buy it back. What each state asks for , read from the statutes.

Where these numbers come from

A complaint is one owner's account and has not been verified by NHTSA or by us. A vehicle with more complaints is not necessarily worse: models that sold in larger numbers collect more of them. How this is counted.

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