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Audi S4 · 2011

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

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Severity pendingNHTSA·15V019000·2015-01-20
Volkswagen Recalls Audi and VW Models for Fuel Leak Fire Risk
Volkswagen is recalling 26,008 Audi and Volkswagen vehicles because a fuel leak in the injection system could cause a fire.
Product
AUDI — AUDI, VOLKSWAGEN A7, A6, TOUAREG HYBRID, S4
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.

20114/5
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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

2010 · powertrain — 42 complaints, median 63,000 mi
2005 · lighting — 31 complaints, median 57,000 mi
2011 · powertrain — 22 complaints, median 65,000 mi

Technical service bulletins

1,783 manufacturer service bulletins across 20 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

2022: 4.9/5
2021: 4.3/5 · 2 complaints
2020: 4.0/5 · 16 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
2019: 4.6/5 · 2 complaints
2018: 4.3/5 · 7 complaints · most complained-of: engine

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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