AUDI-A4 TIMING BELT BROKE WHILE DRIVE ON THE FREEWAY. ROUTINE SERVICES WERE DONE AT STEVEN'S CREEK AUDI ON A REGULAR BASIS. AUDI SERVICES NEVER REPORTED TIMING BELT PROBLEM IN ALL ROUTINE SERVICES. MY AUDI HAS ONLY 47,000 MILES AND WITHOUT WARNING, THE TIMING BELT BROKE. LUCKILY THERE WERE NO MAJOR INJURIES WHILE DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY. NOW, AUDI INFORMS ME THAT IT WLL COST ME $10,000 TO FIX THE TIMING BELT AND THE REPAIR OF THE ENGINE. IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE THAT I HAVE TO PAY FOR THE REPAIR WHEN I FOLLOW AUDI ROUTINE SERVICES. ADDITIONALLY, ALL MY SERVICES WERE DONE AT A CERTIFIED AUDI DEALERSHIP SERVICES. AND IN ALL OF THE SERVICES, NOTHING WAS EVER MENTIONED REGARDING THE CONDITION OF THE TIMING BELT. HAD AUDI SERVICES INFORMED ME ABOUT THE CONDITION, I WOULD REQUEST TO REPLACE IT. IT'S A DEFECT THAT AUDI KNOWS ABOUT WITH REGARD TO TIMING BELT PROBLEMS. CLASS ACTIONS WERE FILED AGAINST AUDI, REGARDING TIMING BELT PROBLEMS. THERE IS ALSO A MANDATE THAT TIMING BELTS BE INSPECTION AT 40,000 AND 80,000 MILES. THIS IS NEGLIGENT ON AUDI FOR NOT PERFORMING THIS SERVICE ON MY AUTOMOBILE. THE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT I AM REFERRING TO IS BASED ON, MS. KAREN SCHWARTZMAN, WHICH NHTSA HAS KNOWLEDGE ON. *TR
2000 Audi Quattro
Owners filed 7 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the parking brake › conventional. No safety recall has been issued.
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parking Brake › Conventional | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tires › Sidewall | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Service Brakes, Hydraulic › Antilock/Traction Control/Electronic Limited Slip | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Power Train › Automatic Transmission › Control Module (tcm/Pcm/Tecm) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine › Gasoline | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Engine and Engine Cooling | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsPARKED VEHICLE ON SLIGHT INCLINE, EXITED, LOCKED CAR, STARTED TALKING TO EMPLOYEE, HEARD NOISE INSIDE OF CAR. CAR BEGAN TO ROLL TOWARDS OTHER VEHICLE AS A SLOW PACE. TRIED TO STOP IT, CAR RAN ME OVER. GOT BACK IN VEHICLE AND PARKING BRAKE HAD MALFUNCTIONED. DT
SET PARKING BRAKE WITH CAR ON SLIGHT INCLINE, EXITED VEHICLE, CAR HIT ANOTHER PARKED VEHICLE. I WASN'T EVEN IN THE CAR HAVE WITNESSES. DT
WHILE DRIVING BRAKES FAILED SIX TIMES. TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER. BRAKES WENT OUT AGAIN. *AK
WHEELS LOSES TRACTION ON SLICK ROAD CONDITIONS CAUSING DRIVER TO LOSE STEERING CONTROL CAPABILITIES. DEALER HAS BEEN CONTACTED. *AK CONSUMER STATES THAT WHEN VEHICLE IS ON ICE OR PACKED SNOW AND THE TIRES ARE AT THEIR LIMIT OF ADHESION, THE CENTER DIFFERENTIAL SENSES SLIP IN THE FRONT OR REAR WHEELS AND TRANSFERS POWER TO THE OTHER END OF THE VEHICLE, THIS CAUSES VEHICLE TO BREAK TRACTION AT THAT AXLE AND THE DIFFERENTIAL SWITCHES POWER TO THE OTHER END, BREAKING IT LOOSE ONCE AGAIN. *SLC
SIDEWALL DEVELOPED BUBBLE (TIRE DEALER SAID IT IS SEPARATION OF INNER AND OUTER SIDEWALL).*AK (TIRESIZE: 225/45-R17)( DOT NUMBER: TIRE SIZE: 225/45-R17 )
RASPING NOISE WHEN BACKING OFF OF THROTTLE FROM TRUBO DRIVER VALVE. ALSO 1000 RPM INCREASE OF ENGINE WHEN DEPRESSING CLUTCH TO UPSHIFT.
7 of 7 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Across model years
Worst on record: 1999Reading 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.