Audi A4, A8, A6, Tt. Published by Transport Canada as 2020032 on 29 January 2020. System: Airbag.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, exposure to moisture over time could cause the driver-front airbag not to inflate properly in a crash.
Safety Risk:
In a crash requiring an airbag deployment, the driver-front airbag may not inflate properly. This could create a risk of injury.
Corrective Actions:
The company …
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.
Transport Canada carries this recall as 2020032, dated 29 January 2020. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 22V471, dated 1 July 2022. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, 69BT.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2020032 | 22V471 |
| Dated | 29 January 2020 | 1 July 2022 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
| Make | Audi | |
The two registers are 884 days apart: the Canadian entry is dated first, the American one second.
These are the dates each register records against its own notice. They are separate administrative acts in two countries, recorded by two authorities under two sets of rules, and this page does not claim that one caused the other or that owners in either country were contacted on those days. What it shows is that the same manufacturer campaign reached the two registers on different dates.
This campaign code also appears in a third register. The European alerts covers the European Union side.
Read the American notice 22V471, including every earlier version of its wording this site holds. The Canadian register explains why the manufacturer code is published there and what that makes possible. Canada and America sets every matched pair side by side.
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
- 2020032
- Recall date
- 29 January 2020
- Make
- Audi
- Models
- A4, A8, A6, TT
- Model years
- 1997 to 2000
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Airbag
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 9,165
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, exposure to moisture over time could cause the driver-front airbag not to inflate properly in a crash.Safety Risk:
In a crash requiring an airbag deployment, the driver-front airbag may not inflate properly. This could create a risk of injury.Corrective Actions:
The company will notify owners by mail. There may be a significant delay before replacement parts are available. The company will send you a second letter once replacement parts are available and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealer to inspect the driver-front airbag inflator. If the inflator requires replacement, a newly design part will be installed.
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 2020032.
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.
- 2020053 · 12 February 2020 · TT · Fuel System
- 2020102 · 16 March 2020 · Q7 · Steering
- 2020207 · 13 May 2020 · Q8, A8 · Powertrain
- 2020208 · 13 May 2020 · A7, A6 · Airbag
- 2020290 · 11 June 2020 · A7, A6 · Label
- 2020308 · 7 July 2020 · S8, A8 · Structure
- 2020353 · 4 August 2020 · Jetta, Jetta Wagon, Golf Wagon · Label
- 2020392 · 26 August 2020 · Tiguan, SQ5, Atlas Cross Sport · Seats And Restraints
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.
- 2020021 · 23 January 2020 · Vibe · Airbag
- 2020018 · 22 January 2020 · Celica, Paseo, Rav4 · Airbag
- 2020013 · 17 January 2020 · Corolla, Matrix, Avalon · Airbag
- 2020014 · 17 January 2020 · Civic, El, Cr-V · Airbag
- 2020015 · 17 January 2020 · Odyssey, Accord, Civic · Airbag
- 2020008 · 15 January 2020 · X5, 3 Series, X3 · 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 536 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2020.
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