Audi S3: recalls and complaints by model year
NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the Audi S3, model years 2015 to 2024. NHTSA has 88 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 10 model years have a page on this register.
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.
| Model year | Recall campaigns | Complaints | Share of the line average | Units in the campaigns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Audi S3 NHTSA page | 0 | 2 | 23% | |
| 2023 Audi S3 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 297 |
| 2022 Audi S3 | 7 | 2 | 23% | 64,203 |
| 2021 Audi S3 NHTSA page | 1 | 0 | 0% | 45,496 |
| 2020 Audi S3 NHTSA page | 1 | 1 | 11% | 153,152 |
| 2019 Audi S3 NHTSA page | 1 | 2 | 23% | 153,152 |
| 2018 Audi S3 NHTSA page | 1 | 5 | 57% | 153,152 |
| 2017 Audi S3 | 2 | 9 | 102% | 164,770 |
| 2016 Audi S3 | 3 | 14 | 159% | 293,264 |
| 2015 Audi S3 | 2 | 53 | 602% | 292,048 |
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
123 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.
| Component | Per 1,000 | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Air Bags | 398.4 | 49 |
| Electrical System | 89.4 | 11 |
| Power Train | 81.3 | 10 |
| Fuel/Propulsion System | 81.3 | 10 |
| Seats | 65 | 8 |
| Seat Belts | 56.9 | 7 |
| Unknown or Other | 48.8 | 6 |
| Engine | 40.7 | 5 |
| Visibility/Wiper | 40.7 | 5 |
| Structure | 16.3 | 2 |
Counts by year
Other model lines of the make
- A427 campaigns
- A654 campaigns
- Q533 campaigns
- Q732 campaigns
- A320 campaigns
- S416 campaigns
- A519 campaigns
- TT12 campaigns
- A831 campaigns
- A4 Allroad12 campaigns
- Q319 campaigns
- Q816 campaigns
- A3 Cabriolet11 campaigns
- E-Tron13 campaigns
- S514 campaigns
- S621 campaigns
- A724 campaigns
- SQ514 campaigns
- Quattro3 campaigns
- 10013 campaigns
- Allroad6 campaigns
- A4 Cabriolet4 campaigns
- Q5 E0 campaigns
- A4 Avant0 campaigns
- S714 campaigns
- 907 campaigns
- A5 Cabriolet9 campaigns
- 500012 campaigns
- Q4 E-Tron7 campaigns
- RS62 campaigns
- S816 campaigns
- Q6 E-Tron3 campaigns
- Q5 Sportback6 campaigns
- A6 Allroad9 campaigns
- 803 campaigns
- RS 37 campaigns
- Cabriolet3 campaigns
- E-Tron Sportback2 campaigns
- E-Tron GT15 campaigns
- 2005 campaigns
- RS 716 campaigns
- SQ711 campaigns
- S5 Cabriolet11 campaigns
- 40007 campaigns
- RS 510 campaigns
- SQ810 campaigns
- V84 campaigns
- RS 6 Avant14 campaigns
- RS E-Tron GT8 campaigns
- RS 43 campaigns
- TT Roadster3 campaigns
- RS Q812 campaigns
- A3 Sportback E-Tron3 campaigns
- Fox8 campaigns
- A6 Sportback E-Tron2 campaigns
- R8 Spyder3 campaigns
- S6 Sportback E-Tron2 campaigns
- 100LS4 campaigns
- SQ6 Sportback E-Tron3 campaigns
- Q8 Sportback E-Tron2 campaigns
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Official channels
- NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
- NHTSA: report a safety problemThe NHTSA form for a complaint about a vehicle, a tire, a child seat or equipment.
Cite this page
Recall Register. Audi S3: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/audi/s3/. 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
- 30 Sep 2026
- 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 S3 model years have the most recall campaigns?
- 2022 with 7, 2016 with 3, 2017 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
- Which Audi S3 model year has the most complaints?
- The 2015 model year, with 53 of the 88 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
- Which components do the complaints about the Audi S3 name?
- Air Bags: 398.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 89.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 81.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
- How many NHTSA investigations name the Audi S3?
- 1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.