Steering Column problems of the 2004 Land Rover Range Rover

Grand-daughter was driving my Range Rover. While driving the steering wheel dropped down into her lap. Was able to brake and slowly turn wheel to pull off road. Steering column would telescope but not raise/lower. Turned vehicle off, restarted, kept trying adjustment lever until finally column retracted then raised to normal position.

The contact owns a 2004 Land Rover Range Rover. The contact stated that the steering wheel became loose and fell into the contact's lap. The vehicle was taken to a mechanic, who advised that the steering column needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 95,400.

Tl-the contact owns a 2004 Land Rover Range Rover. The contact stated that the steering wheel column setting lever failed and caused the steering wheel to release, resting on the driver's lap while the vehicle was in motion. The failure was experienced several times. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer for inspection. The failure mileage was 100,000 and the current mileage was 120,000. Kmj.

No problems observed with the car. Suddenly the steering wheel became loose and fell down to a position where the bottom of the wheel was stuck between my legs. The tilt mechanism failed while the car was the moving and the wheel, although attached to the car, was forced down onto my legs. Steering wheel would no longer stay in a drivable position without $1300 replacement of steering column. This was a common problem with Range Rovers (it was easy to find many others online with a similar problem) and Land Rover had a recall on another part a year ago, which they deny had any impact on this. Spoke to dealer and Land Rover north America, no compensation was obtained, they were not interested in the fault. One dealer told me some customers had this problem multiple times and had the steering column replaced multiple times before 50,000 miles. Unacceptable on an $80,000 car. Dangerous.

While driving the steering column dropped in my lap!!!! car goes to dealer and they replaced broken steering column. I was told that they have had many cases of this. Nhtsa needs to hold lrna liable for this and make them fix this common problem before someone is killed. Between this and the differential issues someone is going to get hurt or killed. Forget about all the electrical problems these cars have.