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Recall · 21V295000

Volkswagen Group of America recalled 19 models over suspension

40,993

Vehicles covered

19

Models

36

Model years

April 26, 2021

Filed with NHTSA

SUSPENSION:REAR:AXLE:NON-POWERED AXLE ASSEMBLY

The defect
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2021 Q7, Q8, Q5 Sportback, SQ5 Sportback, RS6 Avant, RS7, RS Q8, 2020-2021 Audi S6 sedan, Q5, A8, S8, A7, A6 Allroad, A5 Cabriolet, A4 sedan, A4 Allroad, SQ5, S7, A6 sedan, S5 coupe, S4 sedan, S5 Cabriolet, A5 coupe, 2019-2021 RS5 coupe, A5 Sportback, S5 Sportback, RS5 Sportback vehicles. The lock nut on the trailing arm of the rear axle may break due to stress corrosion.
What it can cause
A broken lock nut may misalign the rear axle, causing a loss of control and increasing the risk of a crash.
What the dealer does
Dealers will replace the lock nuts and, if necessary, the associated bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 4, 2021. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 42L1.
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 .

VehicleModel yearsSafety record
AudiA42020 to 202120202021
AudiA52019 to 202120192020
AudiA62020 to 202120202021
AudiA72020 to 2021Not published here
AudiA82020 to 2021Not published here
AudiQ52020 to 202120202021
AudiQ720212021
AudiQ820212021
AudiRS Q82021Not published here
AudiRS52019 to 2021Not published here
AudiRS62021Not published here
AudiRS72021Not published here
AudiS42020 to 20212020
AudiS52019 to 20212020
AudiS5 Cabriolet2020 to 2021Not published here
AudiS62020 to 2021Not published here
AudiS72020 to 2021Not published here
AudiS82020 to 2021Not published here
AudiSQ52020 to 20212021

How this campaign compares

At 40,993 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 88% 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 2021, 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 suspension 4 times before this, most recently in February 2019 as 19V114000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.

This site holds the complaint record for 18 of the 36 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 527 complaints with NHTSA, 12 of them before this campaign was filed. 6 of those name the suspension, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in September 2019, 1 year before this filing.

The vehicles on this campaign carry 26 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V900000 (back over prevention), 25V201000 (electrical system), 25V080000 (electrical system), 23V842000 (electrical system).

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Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. with NHTSA on April 26, 2021 as campaign 21V295000. 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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