Audi A4. Published by Transport Canada as 2002221 on 21 November 2002. System: Airbag.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the igniter for the driver's side airbag may not have been properly pressed into position during assembly. An improperly positioned igniter will not activate the airbag in the event of a collision. Correction: Dealers will replace the airbag units on all affected vehicles.
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 A4 in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Audi A4 is named on 13 American notices, 26 British, 30 European, 4 Japanese and 13 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
- 2002221
- Recall date
- 21 November 2002
- Make
- Audi
- Models
- A4
- Model years
- 2003
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Airbag
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 50
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the igniter for the driver's side airbag may not have been properly pressed into position during assembly. An improperly positioned igniter will not activate the airbag in the event of a collision. Correction: Dealers will replace the airbag units on all 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 2002221.
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.
- 2003073 · 20 March 2003 · S6, S4 · Fuel System
- 2003092 · 4 April 2003 · A6 · Wheels
- 2003343 · 19 December 2003 · TT · Powertrain
- 2001244 · 10 October 2001 · V8, 100, 200 · Electrical
- 2001245 · 10 October 2001 · TT · Suspension
- 2002101 · 31 July 2001 · A8 · Fuel System
- 2002102 · 8 June 2001 · A6 · Visual System
- 2002104 · 3 March 2001 · A6, A8, A4 · Steering
The same system: Airbag
734 notices in this register name Airbag. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2002215 · 19 November 2002 · 3 Series · Airbag
- 2002212 · 15 November 2002 · 900 · Airbag
- 2002201 · 6 November 2002 · Caravan, Grand Voyager, Voyager · Airbag
- 2002234 · 4 December 2002 · Monte Carlo, Lumina Car, Silhouette · Airbag
- 2002236 · 9 December 2002 · Escort · Airbag
- 2002151 · 13 August 2002 · Envoy, Silhouette, Venture · Airbag
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 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 246 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2002.
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