AutoUtility currently tracks 3 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2023 Land Rover Discovery Sport. Body & Structure issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 1 complaint (33.3% of submitted records). Zero crashes, fires, injury reports, or fatality reports are cited across these complaint records.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 3 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Body & Structure (1 reports • 33.3% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Powertrain & Transmission (1), Electrical System (1)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 0 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Reporting Methodology: Statistics describe unverified consumer submissions voluntarily filed with NHTSA. Complaint volume is not normalized for vehicle sales volume or miles driven. Multiple components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission.
Total Complaints
3
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
0
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2023 Land Rover Discovery Sport

Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records

#1 Problem Area 33.3% of complaints

Body & Structure

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#2 Problem Area 33.3% of complaints

Powertrain & Transmission

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#3 Problem Area 33.3% of complaints

Electrical System

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#4 Problem Area 33.3% of complaints

Brakes & Traction Control

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
Domain Share Note: Share percentage represents the proportion of unique complaint filings referencing each vehicle system. Because single complaints may cite multiple systems (such as engine and electrical simultaneously), domain percentages represent individual category incidence and may sum to over 100%.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2023 Land Rover Discovery Sport

Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation

Body & Structure NHTSA ODI ID: #11733706
Filed: 04/24/2026

"Roof molding detached from driver's side of 2023 Land Rover Discovery Sport, upon arriving at home checked the passenger side and it came off without excerpting any force. Subsequent check on search engines indicate this may be a common occurrence in recent model Land Rover SUVs. I ran a VIN check..."

Incident Date: 04/20/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: STRUCTURE
Powertrain & Transmission NHTSA ODI ID: #11716334
Filed: 02/06/2026

"While stopped in traffic with the vehicle’s automatic engine start-stop feature engaged, the vehicle failed to respond when the accelerator was pressed. The engine had shut off normally due to the start-stop system, but when attempting to move again, the vehicle did not accelerate and appeared..."

Incident Date: 02/06/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: POWER TRAIN,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Brakes & Traction Control NHTSA ODI ID: #11618720
Filed: 10/08/2024

"The contact owns a 2023 Land Rover Discovery Sport. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed, the brake pedal was depressed, and the vehicle was shaking erratically. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed with cracked brake pads. The contact was informed that the..."

Incident Date: 11/08/2023 • Raw NHTSA Component: SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
Consumer Narrative Notice: Excerpts are sanitized text descriptions submitted by vehicle owners to the federal ODI database. They reflect the reporting consumer's observations at the time of filing and have not been independently confirmed by vehicle manufacturers or government investigators.

Complaint History for Land Rover Discovery Sport

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2026)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Land Rover Discovery Sport 0 0 0 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Land Rover Discovery Sport 0 0 0 View 2016 Problems →
2017 Land Rover Discovery Sport 0 0 0 View 2017 Problems →
2018 Land Rover Discovery Sport 0 0 0 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Land Rover Discovery Sport 0 0 0 View 2019 Problems →
2020 Land Rover Discovery Sport 12 1 4 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Land Rover Discovery Sport 4 0 1 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Land Rover Discovery Sport 4 0 1 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Land Rover Discovery Sport Current Page 3 0 2 Current
2024 Land Rover Discovery Sport 0 0 0 View 2024 Problems →
2025 Land Rover Discovery Sport 5 0 1 View 2025 Problems →
2026 Land Rover Discovery Sport 0 0 0 View 2026 Problems →
Comparative Disclaimer: Complaint totals are unadjusted historical counts and are not normalized for vehicles sold, active fleet size, or total road mileage. Newer model years naturally have had less calendar exposure time to accumulate owner filings.

Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2023 Land Rover Discovery Sport

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 3 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
POWER TRAIN,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 0 0 0
Service Brakes NHTSA category: SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC 1 0 0 0 0
Structure & Body NHTSA category: STRUCTURE 1 0 0 0 0
Data Attribution & Reporting Methodology: Complaints are unverified voluntary submissions to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). Because multiple vehicle components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission, component-level rollups may sum to more than the unique complaint count (3). Injury and fatality entries in the detailed table reflect raw values entered by reporting consumers across individual submissions; they are not deduplicated casualty statistics and may include duplicate or unverified entries. Complaint volume is not normalized for sales volume or vehicle mileage and does not represent an audited component failure rate.
Official US Government Data Provenance

The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.

Local Production Store Compiled: August 2026 • Deterministic Audited Dataset • Zero Dynamic External API Runtime Latency.