Audi Rs 5. Published by Transport Canada as 2020604 on 9 December 2020. System: Electrical.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the cover for the positive battery terminal could be damaged in a rear crash. This can cause the car to lose electrical power. If this happens, it may not be possible to open the doors from the outside and/or the hazard lights may not work.
Safety Risk:
Doors that cannot be opened …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2020604
- Recall date
- 9 December 2020
- Make
- Audi
- Models
- RS 5
- Model years
- 2018 to 2019
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 447
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the cover for the positive battery terminal could be damaged in a rear crash. This can cause the car to lose electrical power. If this happens, it may not be possible to open the doors from the outside and/or the hazard lights may not work.Safety Risk:
Doors that cannot be opened from the outside could increase the risk of injury after a crash. Hazard lights that do not work could make the vehicle less visible and increase the risk of a crash.Corrective Actions:
Audi will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealer to replace the plus (positive) terminal cover.
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 2020604.
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.
- 2020575 · 25 November 2020 · S5, A5 · Electrical
- 2020500 · 21 October 2020 · TT · Airbag
- 2020499 · 20 October 2020 · A3, A3 E-Tron, RS 3 · Lights And Instruments
- 2020468 · 6 October 2020 · Tiguan, CC, Q3 · Lights And Instruments
- 2020392 · 26 August 2020 · Tiguan, SQ5, Atlas Cross Sport · Seats And Restraints
- 2020353 · 4 August 2020 · Jetta, Jetta Wagon, Golf Wagon · Label
- 2020308 · 7 July 2020 · S8, A8 · Structure
- 2020290 · 11 June 2020 · A7, A6 · Label
The same system: Electrical
686 notices in this register name Electrical. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2020603 · 9 December 2020 · Titan, Titan XD · Electrical
- 2020605 · 10 December 2020 · X7, 3 Series, X5 · Electrical
- 2020611 · 10 December 2020 · Accord Hybrid, Accord, Insight · Electrical
- 2020614 · 12 December 2020 · GLC Class · Electrical
- 2020629 · 17 December 2020 · Scrambler · Electrical
- 2020529 · 5 November 2020 · Evoque, Discovery Sport · Electrical
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Audi RS 5, 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 536 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2020.
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