Recall Register

Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron, model years 2016 to 2018. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 3 of the 3 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20163
  2. 20172
  3. 20182
Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2018 Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron20292,048
2017 Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron20292,048
2016 Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron30293,264

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron, by the year NHTSA received them.

Other model lines of the make

Audi: all 60 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/audi/a3-sportback-e-tron/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron model years have the most recall campaigns?
2016 with 3, 2018 with 2, 2017 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron model year has the most complaints?
The NHTSA complaint file has no complaint for this model line.