Audi A4 Allroad, Audi A5, Audi A5 Cabriolet, Audi Allroad, Audi Rs 5, Audi S4, model years 2017 to 2019. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 24 July 2019. 145,337 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2018-2019 Audi RS5 Sportback, 2018 S5 Cabriolet, S5 Sportback, S5 Coupe, S4 Sedan, A5 Cabriolet, A5 Sportback, A5 Coupe, and 2017-2018 A4 Sedan and A4 Allroad vehicles. Oxidation on the Passenger Occupant Detection System (PODS) connecting cable may cause …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, 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's own number for this recall: 74D9. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 19V547 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 19V547 cover?
- Audi A4 Allroad, Audi A5, Audi A5 Cabriolet, Audi Allroad, Audi RS 5, Audi S4, Audi S5, Audi S5 Cabriolet, model years 2017-2019.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2018-2019 Audi RS5 Sportback, 2018 S5 Cabriolet, S5 Sportback, S5 Coupe, S4 Sedan, A5 Cabriolet, A5 Sportback, A5 Coupe, and 2017-2018 A4 Sedan and A4 Allroad vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A disabled passenger air bag increases the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Audi will notify owners, and dealers will install cable ties to the harness, free of charge. The recall began September 9, 2019. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Audi's number for this recall is 74D9.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Audi calls this recall 74D9, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A disabled passenger air bag increases the risk of injury in the event of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 19V547 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Frontal:Passenger Side:Inflator Module |
| Reported to NHTSA | 24 July 2019 |
| Model years | 2017-2019 |
| Vehicles named | AUDI A4 ALLROAD, AUDI A5, AUDI A5 CABRIOLET, AUDI ALLROAD, AUDI RS 5, AUDI S4, AUDI S5, AUDI S5 CABRIOLET |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A disabled passenger air bag increases the risk of injury in the event of a crash.
The remedy
Audi will notify owners, and dealers will install cable ties to the harness, free of charge. The recall began September 9, 2019. Owners may contact Volkswagen customer service at 1-800-893-5298. Audi's number for this recall is 74D9.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Audi A4 Allroad recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Audi A5 recalls: 18 US campaigns
- Audi A5 Cabriolet recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Audi Allroad recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Audi RS 5 recalls: 10 US campaigns
- Audi S4 recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Audi S5 recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Audi S5 Cabriolet recalls: 11 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 19V547, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/19v547/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 19V547 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
fc7e4b13 - Consequence
cb64d9c6 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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