Range Rover, Sport, Discovery and Defender parts from Dubai for export

Four names hide at least six vehicles. Wikipedia dates the Range Rover L405 to 2012 to 2021 and the Range Rover Sport L494 to 2013 to 2022, both assembled at Solihull. The Discovery ran through the Discovery 3, the Discovery 4 and, from February 2017, the Discovery 5, built at Solihull until 2018 and at Nitra in Slovakia since. The Defender is two cars: the one built from 1983 to 2016 and the L663 unveiled in September 2019. Parts follow the generation, not the name.

In the Middle East the Discovery 3 and 4 were sold as the LR3 and LR4, the names used in North America, and Wikipedia says both were assembled at Aqaba in Jordan as well as at Solihull. A Gulf buyer who writes LR4 means the Discovery 4 of 2009 to 2016. Give both names with the VIN so the quote matches the catalogue entry, and add the facelift year where there was one, since the L405 changed its grille and lamps in 2018.

Wikipedia names the 5.0 litre AJ133 V8, introduced in 2009 for the 2010 model year with Bosch high-pressure direct injection, as the petrol V8 of the Range Rover, the Sport and the Discovery 4, at 375 PS naturally aspirated and 510 PS to 575 PS supercharged. Beside it sit a 3.0 litre supercharged V6, the 3.0 litre TDV6 and SDV6 diesels at 258 PS to 340 PS, the 4.4 litre SDV8 diesel on the Range Rover and Sport, and the Ingenium fours and sixes.

The 5.0 litre carries a known parts story. Wikipedia describes a steel tensioner plunger cutting a groove in the aluminium timing-chain guide on certain early AJ133 engines, causing rattling at idle and on a cold start, and says JLR answered with steel inserts, with an 8 mm pitch INA chain on every AJ133 from the 2011 model year. The revised components must be fitted as a matched set. A timing kit for a 2010 engine and one for a 2012 engine are therefore different lines.

The newest cars add electrification. The Range Rover offered a 2.0 litre plug-in hybrid from the 2019 model year, the Sport lists one too, each with a 13.1 kWh battery, and the 3.0 litre Ingenium six is a mild hybrid in the Range Rover, the Discovery 5 and the Defender. Hybrid battery packs stay out of export quotes; engine, brake, cooling and body lines are quoted by number against the engine code.

Our Kuwait signal is a single enquiry, for a Range Rover L405, and the sample is as small as it sounds: Land Rover appears once among our 97 clear export enquiries. The wider picture is a market short of parts. In July 2026 Kuwait Times described dealers holding genuine parts back for their own workshops, fuel pumps gone entirely and parts for new Chinese models the hardest to find. A Range Rover owner there depends on whoever can still source a genuine line.

East Africa is equally thin. Two of the 28 East African enquiries on file, clear and maybe together, named Land Rover, and both named a Range Rover or a Discovery. Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania drive on the left, so the cars on their roads are normally right-hand drive. Filters, brakes, suspension and engine parts are quoted by part number. Steering racks and dashboard parts belong to one side of the car and are quoted by part number alone.

In the Gulf the names buyers type are the LR3 and LR4, as above. No registration or sales ranking for Land Rover in Saudi Arabia, Qatar or the UAE came up in our research, and we publish none. What we do hold is a trait of the buyers: across the 53 enquiries from the Gulf, Iraq and the Levant, genuine words appear in 12, aftermarket words in 4 and no grade word in 34, so most buyers do not choose a grade up front and the first quote should set the choices side by side.

The L405 has electronic cross-linked air suspension with variable ride height, and Wikipedia credits it with an all-aluminium monocoque, a first for a 4x4 of its type, 420 kg lighter than the car it replaced. In practice that makes air springs, compressors, valve blocks and height sensors real lines for these cars, and collision parts aluminium panels cut to the exact year. A part for a 2013 car may not suit the 2018 facelift, which brought a new grille and LED daytime running lights.

Not every Land Rover has air springs. Wikipedia says the Discovery 5 has coil springs on base trims with air suspension optional, every Defender 110 has air suspension and the 90 can be ordered with coils or air. The question for a suspension quote is therefore which the car has, and the VIN answers it. A retailer listing we read described Arnott's replacement L405 compressor as a new AMK-built unit, the same maker as the original, but that came from a search summary, and we confirm the maker on each line.

Carriers can treat batteries, airbag modules, belt pretensioners, fluids, aerosols and gas-charged dampers as dangerous goods, so none of them appears in an export quote. Air springs, compressors, valve blocks, links, arms, bushes and bearings are quoted by number against the VIN.

We measured one Land Rover number on 4 November 2026: oil filter element LR011279, which the listing names as a Discovery IV part. Land Rover's own part showed two prices, AED 196.97 and AED 210.09, against AED 75.85 for Bosch, AED 72.11 for Mahle, AED 64.46 for Hengst and AED 41.52 for Blue Print. The page does not say whether VAT is included in those offers, so compare ratios, not totals. The four independent brands cost 0.21 to 0.39 of the lower genuine price.

That gap is why grade matters more on a Land Rover than on most cars. A buyer can take genuine on timing, air suspension and electronic lines and a named independent brand on filters and wear parts. Our notes list Bosch and Mahle among makers that supply carmakers, but we do not call a line OE-brand until a person has matched its number to a maker that supplies Land Rover. ZF, named by Wikipedia for the L405's 8-speed automatic, and Bosch, for the AJ133's direct injection, are makers where a source ties the brand to the car.

Counterfeiters follow price gaps. In 2024 Al-Futtaim's raids in the UAE netted about AED 7.46 million of fake parts, and oil filters made up AED 2.81 million of that. Whatever the brand, ask for the distributor invoice on any genuine filter, and for photos of the box and the part number, before paying.

Modules, control units, keys and sensors are matched to the car's market, engine and equipment, so a module quoted from a photograph of the old one is a guess. We quote them by VIN and part number only, the same rule as on our ECU page. The two must agree before a line is priced, and where they do not we decline the line. If a module turns out wrong, the return trip is yours to arrange with your agent.

Land Rover gives its own reasons. Wikipedia says the Defender L663 shares no components with the Defender built until 2016, and that the Discovery 5 shares the D7u platform with the Range Rover and the Sport, so a number from one family says little about another. Air suspension modules, engine and gearbox control units and body modules are quoted only after the VIN is matched, and circuits of this kind are on the Russia high-priority list, so we never quote them for onward shipment to a refused destination.

Send the 17-character VIN, the model name and body type, the engine and gearbox, the drive side and the country, with a photograph of the old part and its number. Many Land Rover numbers in the listings we read begin LR followed by six digits, as in LR011279, and a number from the box or the casting is the strongest key after the VIN. Add the grade you want and a quantity for each line.

Before paying, check three things. The full number on the box must match your list, and the brand on the box must match the brand on your quote line. Timing and suspension lines must say which engine year or suspension type they suit. In Kuwait only Kuwaiti importers or their registered brokers can clear goods, and oil filters, brake pads and batteries have been on its conformity list since 2011, so your broker confirms who clears yours.