Air Bag Problems of Audi A4

Audi A4 owners have reported 605 air bag related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 9 most common air bag problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's air bag (465 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's air bag not deploy (30 problems). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.


Recently reported Air Bag problems of Audi A4

The Air Bag problem

The contact owns a 2008 Audi A4. The contact received an unknown recall notice related to the air bags. The contact scheduled an appointment at a dealer and had the recall serviced. The contact then stated that while idle in the parking lot of a hospital, a speeding vehicle clipped the front end,   Read details...

The Air Bag Not Deploy problem

Tl- the contact owns a 2015 Audi A4. The contact stated that while driving at 30 mph, she attempted to avoid hitting another vehicle that had darted in front of her vehicle. Despite her best efforts, the contact clipped the right passenger side of the other vehicle which caused severe damage to the   Read details...

The Side/window Air Bag problem

My personal Audi A4 was involved in a front end collision on an inner-city road due to loss of friction on frozen ice. Despite there only being a driver present in the car, the driver side airbag from the steering wheel did not activate while the passenger side airbag did.   Read details...

The Air Bag Light On problem

Received airbag recall NHTSA 16v079 on April 2016. After almost 3 years of waiting for parts due to shortage the airbag was replaced on February 2019. On April 2019 airbag light came on. Dealer scanned vehicle and said was unrelated to the airbag which it was just replaced and wanted to charge me   Read details...

The Front Driver Side Air Bag Inflator problem

2007 Audi 4. Consumer writes in regards to takata passenger frontal airbag inflator safety recall parts being unavailable.   Read details...




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