# Service bulletin SSM68097

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: 10116144
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-25
- Manufacturer's number: SSM68097
- Manufacturer's date: 2017\-02\-01
- NHTSA component: SUSPENSION:FRONT:WHEEL BEARING; WHEELS

## NHTSA's summary

Front wheel bearing may be contaminated

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10116144-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2017/MC-10116144-0001.pdf)

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## Components

Suspension, Wheels, Wheel bearing

## Vehicles listed

- 2016 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY
- 2015 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY SPORT
- 2012 to 2017 LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER
- 2017 LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER SPORT

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SSM71883](/bulletins/10106167.md), 2017-06-13, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT:WHEEL BEARING; SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP:WHEEL SPEED SENSOR/TONE RING; SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:ANTILOCK:WHEEL SPEED SENSOR; SUSPENSION. CONTAMINATION BETWEEN ABS WHEEL SPEED SENSOR AND WHEEL BEARING TONE WHEEL COULD LEAD TO DTC'S
- [LTB00553NAS1](/bulletins/10100917.md), 2017-05-26, Service bulletin: SUSPENSION:FRONT:WHEEL BEARING; SERVICE BRAKES; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION. "SITUATION: A RUBBING/SCRAPING/DRONE\-TYPE NOISE AND/OR A VIBRATION MAY APPEAR TO BE EVIDENT FROM THE FRONT LEFTHAND CORNER OF THE VEHICLE. THE NOISE MAY 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 \(80/100KM/H\). THE NOISE IN MOST CASES IS MORE PROMINENT IN SECOND GEAR COAST DOWN, PARTICULARLY AROUND 12MPH \(20KM/H\). TO CONFIRM THE TRANSFER CASE IS THE ROOT CAUSE, THE NOISE CAN LISTENED TO USING A ‘CHASSIS EAR’ FIXED TO FRONT DIFFERENTIAL RIGHT\-HAND MOUNT. CAUSE: THIS MAY BE CAUSED BY A CHORDAL VIBRATION OF THE TRANSFER CASE CHAIN ON COAST/OVERRUN."

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