# Service bulletin SSM71788

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10101460
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-05\-31
- Manufacturer's number: SSM71788
- Manufacturer's date: 2014\-03\-18
- NHTSA component: STEERING:LINKAGES

## NHTSA's 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."

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Steering, Tie rods and steering linkage

## Vehicles listed

- 2008 to 2014 LAND ROVER LR2

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SSM60517](/bulletins/10097338.md), 2017-04-13, Service bulletin: STEERING; STEERING:LINKAGES; STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\); STEERING:HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST:POWER STEERING FLUID. "ISSUE: FOLLOWING WARRANTY ANALYSIS OF STEERING RACKS REPORTED TO BE LEAKING, 75% HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS NO FAULT FOUND, FOLLOWING TESTING. CAUSE: LAND ROVER ENGINEERING HAVE RECENTLY VISITED DEALERSHIPS WHERE A REQUEST HAS BEEN MADE TO REPLACE THE STEERING GEAR FOR AN OIL LEAK IN THE AREA OF THE PINION HOUSING, CASTING, YOKE PLUG OR THE GAITER ADJACENT TO THE PINION HOUSING. FOLLOWING INVESTIGATION THE SOURCE OF THE LEAK PATH WAS IDENTIFIED AS BEING FROM THE SUPPLY AND RETURN HOSE O\-RING SEALS."

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