Recall · 20V153000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the AUDI A6 over electrical system
5,471
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
March 19, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2019-2020 Audi A6 vehicles equipped with mild-hybrid technology and 2.0TFSI engines. Moisture may enter the starter generator and cause an electrical short circuit.
- What it can cause
- A short circuit in the starter generator increases the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Volkswagen will notify owners, and dealers will replace the starter generator, free of charge. The recall began by May 22, 2020. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 27H2.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 5,471 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 75% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2020, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 10 times before this, most recently in June 2019 as 19V434000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 138 complaints with NHTSA, 6 of them before this campaign was filed. 101 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in March 2019, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 9 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V125000 (lane departure), 25V900000 (back over prevention), 23V601000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 22V861000 (electrical system).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. with NHTSA on March 19, 2020 as campaign 20V153000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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