Audi S8, A8. Published by Transport Canada as 2020308 on 7 July 2020. System: Structure.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the engine compartment seal may become loose over time and fall into the engine compartment. If this happens, the seal could contact a hot surface in the engine compartment.
Safety Risk:
A rubber seal that falls onto a hot surface could cause a fire.
Corrective Action:
The …
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Audi S8 in the other registers
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The Japanese register
The Israeli register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2020308
- Recall date
- 7 July 2020
- Make
- Audi
- Models
- S8, A8
- Model years
- 2013 to 2018
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 810
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the engine compartment seal may become loose over time and fall into the engine compartment. If this happens, the seal could contact a hot surface in the engine compartment.
Safety Risk:
A rubber seal that falls onto a hot surface could cause a fire.Corrective Action:
The company will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealer to install a retaining plate on the engine compartment seal.
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 2020308.
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.
- 2020290 · 11 June 2020 · A7, A6 · Label
- 2020353 · 4 August 2020 · Jetta, Jetta Wagon, Golf Wagon · Label
- 2020392 · 26 August 2020 · Tiguan, SQ5, Atlas Cross Sport · Seats And Restraints
- 2020207 · 13 May 2020 · Q8, A8 · Powertrain
- 2020208 · 13 May 2020 · A7, A6 · Airbag
- 2020468 · 6 October 2020 · Tiguan, CC, Q3 · Lights And Instruments
- 2020499 · 20 October 2020 · A3, A3 E-Tron, RS 3 · Lights And Instruments
- 2020500 · 21 October 2020 · TT · Airbag
The same system: Structure
800 notices in this register name Structure. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2020300 · 1 July 2020 · Aldr · Structure
- 2020324 · 16 July 2020 · 2100 · Structure
- 2020334 · 20 July 2020 · F-650, F-750 · Structure
- 2020343 · 29 July 2020 · Odyssey · Structure
- 2020348 · 29 July 2020 · Micro Minnie · Structure
- 2020402 · 28 August 2020 · Elk Ridge, Bighorn Traveler, Cyclone · Structure
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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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