Audi Q4 E-Tron. Published by Transport Canada as 2023163 on 22 March 2023. System: Airbag.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the head curtain airbags could contact the metal part of the front door seals when they inflate in a crash. If this happens, a side curtain airbag could tear. This could also cause the vehicle not to meet the ejection mitigation requirements of Canadian regulations.
Safety Risk:
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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 2023163, dated 22 March 2023. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 23V189, dated 22 March 2023. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, 69FA.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2023163 | 23V189 |
| Dated | 22 March 2023 | 22 March 2023 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
| Make | Audi | |
Both registers carry the same date for this defect.
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.
Read the American notice 23V189, 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 Q4 E-TRON in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Audi Q4 E-TRON is named on 4 American notices, 2 British and 3 European. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European 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
- 2023163
- Recall date
- 22 March 2023
- Make
- Audi
- Models
- Q4 E-Tron
- Model years
- 2022 to 2023
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Airbag
- Raised as
- Compliance MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,103
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the head curtain airbags could contact the metal part of the front door seals when they inflate in a crash. If this happens, a side curtain airbag could tear. This could also cause the vehicle not to meet the ejection mitigation requirements of Canadian regulations.Safety Risk:
A head curtain airbag that doesn't work properly could increase the risk of injury in a crash.Corrective Actions:
Audi will notify owners by mail and instruct you to take your vehicle to a dealership to secure both front door seals.
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 2023163.
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.
- 2023068 · 15 February 2023 · Q7 · Label
- 2023069 · 15 February 2023 · S8, A8 · Airbag
- 2023286 · 12 May 2023 · RS 7, A7, S7 · Brakes
- 2023314 · 31 May 2023 · E-Tron GT · Heater And Defroster
- 2023492 · 1 September 2023 · RS E-Tron GT · High Voltage
- 2023659 · 13 December 2023 · E-Tron, A8, Q5 · Accessories
- 2023685 · 20 December 2023 · Q8, SQ8, RS Q8 · Airbag
- 2023686 · 20 December 2023 · E-Tron · High Voltage
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.
- 2023146 · 17 March 2023 · EQB Class · Airbag
- 2023183 · 29 March 2023 · Atlas · Airbag
- 2023120 · 8 March 2023 · Continental GTC · Airbag
- 2023124 · 8 March 2023 · K5 · Airbag
- 2023069 · 15 February 2023 · S8, A8 · Airbag
- 2023061 · 14 February 2023 · iX, X1 · Airbag
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
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 Audi Q4 E-Tron, 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 593 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2023.
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