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Audi A4 · 1997

1 recall affects this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

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Severity pendingNHTSA·22V471000·2022-07-01
Audi Recalls A4 and A8 Models for Airbag Inflator Defect
Audi is recalling 1997-1998 A4 and 1998 A8 vehicles because the driver's airbag inflator may explode or underinflate, posing a risk of injury.
Product
AUDI — AUDI A4, A8
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.

1997Not rated by NHTSA
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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 · lighting — 144 complaints, median 55,000 mi
2020 · electrical — 91 complaints
2005 · lighting — 85 complaints, median 59,000 mi
2013 · steering — 57 complaints, median 53,500 mi
2010 · engine — 43 complaints, median 92,290 mi

Technical service bulletins

1,928 manufacturer service bulletins across 21 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

2024: 4.7/5 · 2 complaints
2022: 4.7/5
2021: 4.0/5 · 11 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
2020: 3.5/5 · 127 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
2019: 4.5/5 · 5 complaints

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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