1998 Audi Allroad

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the exterior lighting › headlights › switch. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Exterior Lighting › Headlights › Switch	1		0	1	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Exterior Lighting › Headlights › SwitchFire

Filed Jan 5, 2007103,500 milesNJ

I JUST RECENTLY RECEIVED A RECALL NOTICE FROM AUDI OF AMERICA. IN THE BODY OF THIS LETTER AUDI STATES "WHAT IS THE PROBLEM" WHAT AUDI DESCRIBES AS THE "PROBLEM" IS EXACT WHILE DRIVING EAST ON 28TH STREET IN NEW YORK CITY TRAFFIC, I NOTICED SMOKE COMING FROM THE FRONT OF THE CAR, BY THE TIME I PULLED OVER THE SMOKE WAS BILLOWING FROM THE WHEEL WELLS. I WAS LATE FOR A MEETING ALREADY SO I JUMPED IN A WAITING CAB AND AS I DID I NOTICED FLAMES SHOOTING THROUGH THE WHEEL WELLS TOO. I PHONED THE NYFD. *NM

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Assessment
2020	0	1	0	Routine
2018	1	1	0	Routine
2017	2	1	0	Routine
2015	4	1	0	Routine
2014	6	1	0	Routine
2013	13	1	1	Routine
2005	3	2	1	Routine
2004	15	3	2	Routine
2003	14	3	0	Routine
2002	8	3	1	Routine
2001	17	3	0	Routine
1999	2	0	0	Routine
1998 — this page	1	0	1	Routine

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Other Audi models

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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.