# Service bulletin SSM72080

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: 10106347
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-06\-14
- Manufacturer's number: SSM72080
- Manufacturer's date: 2014\-11\-17
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DIFFERENTIAL UNIT

## NHTSA's summary

"ISSUE: DIFFERENTIAL PINION OIL SEAL LEAK. CAUSE: PINION SEAL PREVIOUSLY NOT AVAILABLE AS A SERVICEABLE COMPONENT LEADING TO DIFFERENTIAL REPLACEMENTS."

## 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

Transmission and driveline, Differential

## Vehicles listed

- 2014 to 2015 LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER
- 2014 to 2015 LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER SPORT

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SSM72080](/bulletins/10106163.md), 2017-06-13, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DIFFERENTIAL UNIT. DIFFERENTIAL PINION OIL SEAL LEAKS
- [LTB00695NAS1](/bulletins/10102603.md), 2017-06-02, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE; POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DIFFERENTIAL UNIT. "SITUATION: A DRIVELINE VIBRATION, FELT THROUGH THE FLOOR AND/OR SEAT ONLY, MAY BE EVIDENT WITH THE TRANSMISSION IN 7TH/8TH GEAR AT VEHICLE SPEEDS ABOVE 100KPH/62MPH WHILE ON OVERRUN AND/OR LIGHT THROTTLE. CAUSE: THIS MAY BE CAUSED BY 'FORCING' \(ECCENTRICITY BETWEEN THE DRIVESHAFT AND DIFFERENTIAL AT THE COUPLING\) FROM THE FRONT AND/OR REAR DRIVELINE."
- [SSM63897](/bulletins/10101649.md), 2017-06-01, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DIFFERENTIAL UNIT; SUSPENSION:FRONT:SPRINGS:LEAF SPRING ASSEMBLY:HANGER,BRACKET. "ISSUED MAY 2014: ISSUE: A NOISE WHICH CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A RUBBING/SCRAPPING/DRONE OR IN SOME CASES MAYBE REPORTED AS A VIBRATION IS FOUND TO BE EVIDENT FROM THE LEFT HAND FRONT CORNER OF THE VEHICLE. THE NOISE CAN ALSO BE DESCRIBED AS SIMILAR TO A BRAKE RUBBING OR WHEEL BEARING NOISE AND CAN BE VARIABLE FROM VEHICLE TO VEHICLE. THE ISSUE CAN OCCUR AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS/GEARS AND IN STEADY STATE DRIVING CONDITIONS UP TO 50/60MPH \(80/100KM/H\), HOWEVER THE NOISE IN MOST CASES IS MORE PROMINENT IN 2 GEAR COAST DOWN PARTICULARLY AROUND 12MPH \(20KM/H\). TO CONFIRM, THE NOISE CAN LISTENED TO USING ‘CHASSIS EAR’ FIXED TO FRONT DIFFERENTIAL RH MOUNT ACTION: FIT FRONT DIFFERENTIAL SUPPORT BRACKET, REFER TO ATTACHED DOCUMENT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION."

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