20V056000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
In the event of a crash necessitating air bag deployment, the air bag may not properly protect the occupant, increasing the risk of serious injury or death.
1999 AUDI A6
1 safety recall campaign, 8 defect investigations, 276 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations8
Owner complaints276
Complaints citing a crash14
Complaints citing a fire23
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 17ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 17FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY
- 14VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 11FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER
- 10STEERING:LINKAGES:TIE ROD ASSEMBLY
- 10SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP:CONTROL UNIT/MODULE
- 9SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:ANTILOCK/TRACTION CONTROL/ELECTRONIC LIMITED SLIP
- 8ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:INTERIOR/UNDER DASH
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 1999 AUDI A6s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.