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 A8
1 safety recall campaign, 13 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints13
Complaints citing a crash0
Complaints citing a fire2
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
- 2ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 1ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE
- 1FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 1POWER TRAIN
- 1POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- 1SEATS
- 1STRUCTURE:BODY:BUMPERS
- 1STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 1999 AUDI A8s 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.