2015 Land Rover Range Rover Problems: 8 Known Issues

On the 2010-2022 Land Rover Range Rover, the Jaguar/Land Rover AJ-V8 5.0L engine suffers from timing chain tensioner failures. The hydraulic tensioners lose oil pressure on cold starts, allowing the timing chains to slap against the guides. Over time the guides wear and the chain stretches, leading to jumped timing and potential catastrophic engine damage. This is the single most expensive common failure on these engines.

On the 2010-2022 Land Rover Range Rover, the Eaton TVS supercharger on the 5.0L V8 develops bearing wear in the nose cone assembly, producing a whining or grinding noise that increases with engine RPM. The supercharger coupler (snout coupler) also wears out, causing a rattling noise and reduced boost. Left unaddressed, the bearings can seize and destroy the supercharger rotors.

On the 2003-2021 Land Rover Range Rover, jLR communications support multiple Range Rover air-suspension compressor conditions: exhaust or delivery-valve faults, drier repair, relay replacement, installation/configuration faults and unnecessary replacement prompted by symptom-free DTCs. The evidence supports the compressor-failure identity, but it does not support one Hitachi-only failure chain, a universal thermal-fuse cause or the claim that leaking springs usually destroy the compressor.

On the 2003-2021 Land Rover Range Rover, the rubber air spring bladders on the Range Rover deteriorate over time from UV exposure, road salt, and ozone. Cracks develop in the rubber, causing slow air leaks that worsen in cold weather. The vehicle will sag overnight on one or more corners and the compressor runs excessively trying to compensate, eventually leading to compressor failure.

On the 2013-2016 Land Rover Range Rover, on 2013-2016 L405 Range Rovers the Keyless Vehicle (KV) door-latch system could leave a door that looks shut actually unlatched, with no unlatched warning. An unlatched door could open while the vehicle is moving. Land Rover recalled the latch three times. 15V385 was a keyless-entry software update. 19V392 (Land Rover campaign N335) covered the same failure with a test of the front and rear door latches, modification of any latch that fails, and a Remote Function Actuator keyless-entry software update. 20V387 (N476) re-recalled vehicles whose 19V392 repair may not have been done correctly.

On the 2003-2021 Land Rover Range Rover, the panoramic sunroof drain tubes on the Range Rover become blocked with debris, leaves, and dirt, causing water to back up into the headliner and drip into the cabin. Water pools in the footwells, saturates the carpets, and can damage the body control modules located under the front seats. This is one of the most common and frustrating Range Rover issues, often misdiagnosed as a windshield seal leak.

On the 2015 Land Rover Range Rover, a short production batch of 2015 Range Rovers - built 6 January 2015 to 23 January 2015 - left the factory with wheel nuts manufactured from raw material whose ultimate tensile strength was below specification. The nuts can crack and come off the wheel studs; once several have gone, the remaining nuts cannot hold the wheel and it can separate from the hub at speed. Jaguar Land Rover recalled the batch under NHTSA 15V092, covering 2015 Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and LR4. Because the affected build window is only two and a half weeks wide, this recall is easy to overlook on a used car.

On the 2013-2022 Land Rover Range Rover, jLR communications document repeated flat-battery complaints on 2013-2019 Range Rover vehicles, including cases with no measurable quiescent drain, a 2016-2020 TCU-related quiescent drain and a 2018 audio-system condition associated with startup-battery discharge. These sources support a module-related battery-drain identity, but not the frozen Bluetooth claim, a three-to-five-day interval or the assertion that any of more than 70 modules is equally likely.