Parking brake failure on the 2006 Land Rover Range Rover
Only 3 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When parking brake failure gets reported
There are 3 reports of parking brake failure on the 2006 Land Rover Range Rover, 3 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 78,000 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $250–$1,300 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure, every year of the Land Rover Range Rover
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 land rover range rover. While the vehicle was parked on an incline the vehicle began to roll away on its own. The contact was inside the vehicle and placed the parking brake in order to stop the vehicle. The vehicle was towed to the dealer for diagnostic testing. There was a recall under NHTSA campaign id number: 05v502000 (power train:automatic transmission) that may be related to the failure. The technician stated the VIN was not included in the recall and diagnostic test would have to be performed to diagnose the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The VIN was not available. The approximate failure mileage was 78,000.
While traveling at highway speed (approximately 65mph), the electronic brake module failed causing the emergency brake to lock up the rear wheels and put the car into a skid. The vehicle veered back and forth across the 3 lane highway as I steered to regain control. After coming to a stop, the brake automatically released and I was able to drive the vehicle off the highway and into the breakdown lane. *tr
After my 2006 range rover sport hse I purchased arrived from another state, I decided to drive it to the gas station to fill up which was less than a mile away. As I approached the my destination I turned on my right turn signal to merge into the exit lane and my vehicle came to an abrupt stop. I immediately put the vehicle into park and called the dealer in which I bought it from. They asked if I pushed the parking brake or changed the driving mode. They asked me to turn the vehicle off and back on to see if it would reset itself, but it didn't move. After all options failed, I was instructed by the dealer to get it towed to the nearest range rover repair shop. While the vehicle was being remove from the tow truck, the driver said it looks like your front end seized as he noticed the front tires were not turning. I am lucky and blessed that I was not going faster or that anyone was behind me while traveling 25 MPH which I feel would have been an accident sure to happen. My heart still races when I think of my situation and what could have happen. I am currently waiting word from the dealer of what caused this problem. *tr
Also reported on the 2006 Land Rover Range Rover
Differential or transfer case failure
Other electrical problem
Steering column or shaft failure
Other body or interior problem
Other brake problem
Radiator or coolant leak
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 3 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 3 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does parking brake failure happen on the 2006 Land Rover Range Rover?
Across 3 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 80,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is parking brake failure on the 2006 Land Rover Range Rover?
3 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.3 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed