Recall · 22V806000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 25 models over equipment
6,076
Vehicles covered
25
Models
28
Model years
October 26, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:INFOTAINMENT:VIDEO (TOUCH)SCREEN/MONITOR/UNIT
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2021-2022 AUDI A8, A6 Allroad, E-TRON Quattro, 2022 S3, RSQ8, RS7, RS6 Avant, Q8, Q7, Q3, E-TRON Sportback Quattro, S5 Cabriolet, E-TRON GT, S5 Sportback, A7, A6, A5 Sportback, A5 Cabriolet, A4, A4 Allroad, A3, S8, SQ7, SQ8, S6, and S4 vehicles. The infotainment main unit may become damaged internally when the vehicle is shut off, resulting in an inoperative rearview camera display the next time the vehicle is started. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 111, "Rear Visibility."
- What it can cause
- An inoperative rearview camera display reduces the driver's rear visibility, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the infotainment main unit, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed June 6, 2022. Owners may contact Audi's customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 91Ei.
- 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.nhtsa.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 |
|---|---|---|
| Audi A3 | 2022 | 2022 |
| Audi A4 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi A4 Allroad | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi A5 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi A5 Cabriolet | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi A6 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi A6 Allroad | 2021 to 2022 | 2021 |
| Audi A7 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi A8 | 2021 to 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi E-Tron | 2021 to 2022 | 20212022 |
| Audi E-Tron GT | 2022 | 2022 |
| Audi Q3 | 2022 | 2022 |
| Audi Q7 | 2022 | 2022 |
| Audi Q8 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi RS Q8 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi RS6 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi RS7 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi S3 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi S4 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi S5 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi S5 Cabriolet | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi S6 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi S8 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi SQ7 | 2022 | Not published here |
| Audi SQ8 | 2022 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 6,076 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 76% of the 16,357 vehicle recalls with a published size filed from 1995 up to this one. The middle campaign among them covers 481. It covers model years 2021 to 2022, 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 equipment 5 times before this, most recently in February 2022 as 22V102000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 11 of the 28 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 171 complaints with NHTSA, 29 of them before this campaign was filed. 4 of those name the equipment, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2021, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 36 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V900000 (back over prevention), 25V227000 (air bags), 25V201000 (electrical system), 24V898000 (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 October 26, 2022 as campaign 22V806000. 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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