Vehicle
2 recalls affect this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.
Volkswagen Group of America is recalling specific Audi A4 and A6 models because passenger air bag inflators may rupture during deployment, potentially causing serious injury or death.
Gates is recalling specific aftermarket Tru-Flow water pumps for Audi and Volkswagen vehicles because the pulley may develop microfractures, causing the timing belt to fail and the engine to shut down.
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.
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.
1,928 manufacturer service bulletins across 21 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.
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.