Audi A6, Passat. Published by Transport Canada as 1999095 on 19 May 1999. System: Brakes.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, a control valve in the vacuum hose connecting the brake booster to the intake manifold may not open or close fully at temperatures below -4 degrees F. This condition could cause insufficient vacuum to be provided to the brake booster resulting in possible loss of power brake assist. Correction: …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Audi A6 in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Audi A6 is named on 25 American notices, 32 British, 29 European, 3 Japanese and 19 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European register
The Japanese register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1999095
- Recall date
- 19 May 1999
- Make
- Audi, Volkswagen
- Models
- A6, Passat
- Model years
- 1997 to 1999
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety TC
- Vehicles affected
- 9,000
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, a control valve in the vacuum hose connecting the brake booster to the intake manifold may not open or close fully at temperatures below -4 degrees F. This condition could cause insufficient vacuum to be provided to the brake booster resulting in possible loss of power brake assist. Correction: A vacuum by-pass system will be installed on affected vehicles.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1999095.
Audi elsewhere in this register
Audi is named on 212 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1999004 · 11 January 1999 · 100, 90 · Fuel System
- 1999195 · 29 October 1999 · A8, A4, A6 · Steering
- 2000027 · 15 February 2000 · TT · Steering
- 2000097 · 14 April 2000 · S6, S4 · Fuel System
- 1998126 · 22 June 1998 · A4, A6, Passat · Engine
- 2000105 · 17 April 2000 · 100 · Fuel System
- 2000132 · 16 June 2000 · A6 · Fuel System
- 2000238 · 23 October 2000 · A4 · Electrical
The same system: Brakes
791 notices in this register name Brakes. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1999100 · 26 May 1999 · Travelaire, Golden Falcon · Brakes
- 1999102 · 26 May 1999 · Explorer · Brakes
- 1999109 · 7 June 1999 · FL60, FL70, FL50 · Brakes
- 1999117 · 9 June 1999 · MX ZX 440 LC · Brakes
- 1999121 · 21 June 1999 · WG, Autocar, WX · Brakes
- 1999126 · 23 June 1999 · Windstar · Brakes
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Volkswagen Passat, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on an Audi: 212 in the register, and 240 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1999.
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