Recall · 20V786000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the AUDI Q3 over service brakes, hydraulic
313
Vehicles covered
1
Model
1
Model years
December 16, 2020
Filed with NHTSA
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:PEDALS AND LINKAGES
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2020 Audi Q3 vehicles. The brake pedal plate can bend or detach under the pressure applied during sudden stopping.
- What it can cause
- A bent or detached brake pedal plate decreases the contact area for the driver's foot and increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Audi will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the weld between the brake pedal and the brake pedal plate and, as necessary, replace the entire brake pedal, free of charge. The recall began January 12, 2021. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 46i7.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| AudiQ3 | 2020 | 2020 |
How this campaign compares
At 313 vehicles this is a small campaign: 55% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2020, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2020, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the service brakes, hydraulic 3 times before this, most recently in April 2019 as 19V277000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 64 complaints with NHTSA, 20 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2019, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 26V590000 (steering), 20V644000 (seats).
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 December 16, 2020 as campaign 20V786000. 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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