If the car is not driven for 20 minutes per day and the car sits for any length of time the check engine light comes on. The dealership advises it is the 12v battery is run down. According the Audi USA and the service order that the car is operating as designed.
2024 Audi A3
Routine
Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the electrical system. No safety recall has been issued.
What fails
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical System | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsElectrical System
Filed Feb 16, 2025PA
1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Across model years
Worst on record: 2006| Year | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Deaths | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2024 — this page | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2023 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2022 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2020 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2019 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2018 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2017 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2016 | 81 | 3 | 2 | 0 | Routine |
| 2015 | 92 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2013 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2012 | 43 | 4 | 2 | 0 | Routine |
| 2011 | 43 | 4 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 2010 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2009 | 47 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2008 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2007 | 52 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2006 | 123 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2004 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
Reading this record
No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.
Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.