Recall Register

Audi A4 Avant: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Audi A4 Avant, model years 2011 to 2012. NHTSA has 53 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 2 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. 20110
  2. 20120
Audi A4 Avant: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2012 Audi A4 Avant NHTSA page02491%
2011 Audi A4 Avant029109%

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.

Components in the complaints

73 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Audi A4 Avant: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine41130
Unknown or Other123.39
Power Train82.26
Fuel/Propulsion System82.26
Steering82.26
Air Bags41.13
Engine and Engine Cooling27.42
Electrical System27.42
Exterior Lighting27.42
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)13.71

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Audi A4 Avant, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Audi A4 Avant, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 12 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Audi: all 61 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Audi A4 Avant: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/audi/a4-avant/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019

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 A4 Avant model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which Audi A4 Avant model year has the most complaints?
The 2011 model year, with 29 of the 53 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Audi A4 Avant name?
Engine: 411 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 123.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 82.2 per 1,000 component mentions.