Recall · 21V027000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled the AUDI Q3 over steering
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Vehicles covered
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Model
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Model years
January 27, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
STEERING:CRITICAL FASTENERS
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling one 2019 Audi Q3 vehicle. Production deviation in the belt pully can prevent the circlip from properly engaging the steering rack.
- What it can cause
- The circlip can detach and catch on surrounding components, causing the steering system to lock and increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Audi will notify the owner, and a dealer will replace the steering rack, free of charge. The recall was completed February 28, 2021. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 48P7.
- 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 | 2019 | 2019 |
How this campaign compares
At 1 vehicle this is a small campaign: 100% 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, 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the steering 5 times before this, most recently in March 2020 as 20V149000. 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 10 complaints with NHTSA, 4 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the steering, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2020, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 26V590000 (steering), 22V815000 (tires), 20V273000 (air bags).
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 January 27, 2021 as campaign 21V027000. 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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