Recall · 23V601000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 7 models over service brakes, hydraulic
7,499
Vehicles covered
7
Models
11
Model years
August 25, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FLUID
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2021 Audi S7, S6 Sedan, RS7, RS6 Avant, A6 Allroad, 2019-2021 A7, and A6 Sedan vehicles. An incorrectly labeled brake fluid cap may have been installed, which can result in the use of the wrong type of brake fluid.
- What it can cause
- Incorrect brake fluid can reduce braking ability and increase the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the brake fluid reservoir cap and, if necessary, replace it, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 17, 2023. Owners may contact Audi's customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Volkswagen's number for this recall is 47T9.
- 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 .
How this campaign compares
At 7,499 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 77% 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 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the service brakes, hydraulic 6 times before this, most recently in September 2021 as 21V707000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 6 of the 11 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 211 complaints with NHTSA, 130 of them before this campaign was filed. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2019, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 16 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V125000 (lane departure), 25V900000 (back over prevention), 25V201000 (electrical system), 23V842000 (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 August 25, 2023 as campaign 23V601000. 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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