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Audi A3 · 2006

2 recalls affect this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

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  • Severity pendingNHTSA·18V082000·2018-01-30

    Audi Recalls Vehicles Due to Driver Air Bag Inflator Explosion Risk

    Volkswagen Group of America is recalling specific Audi models because the driver's air bag inflator may explode during deployment, potentially causing serious injury or death.

    Product
    AUDI — AUDI S5 CABRIOLET, S4 CABRIOLET, A3, A4 CABRIOLET
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide
  • Severity pendingNHTSA·16V079000·2016-02-10

    Volkswagen Recalls Audi and Passat Vehicles for Airbag Inflator Defect

    Volkswagen is recalling 151,767 Audi and Volkswagen vehicles because the driver's airbag inflator may rupture during deployment, potentially causing serious injury.

    Product
    AUDI — AUDI, VOLKSWAGEN A3, A4 CABRIOLET, PASSAT
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide

NHTSA crash-test safety rating

Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.

Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.

Wider context for this vehicle

Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.

Federal investigations

  • EA22001 Engineering Analysis · engine and engine cooling:engine:gasoline:turbo/supercharger
  • PE21009 Preliminary Evaluation · engine and engine cooling:engine:gasoline:turbo/supercharger

Complaint clusters with no matching recall

  • 2006 · powertrain 36 complaints, median 71,580 mi
  • 2015 · electrical 23 complaints, median 49,154 mi

Technical service bulletins

1,748 manufacturer service bulletins across 19 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

  • 2025: 4.6/5 · 5 complaints
  • 2024: 4.8/5 · 1 complaints
  • 2023: 4.8/5
  • 2022: 4.4/5
  • 2020: 4.0/5 · 16 complaints · most complained-of: airbags

This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.

Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.

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