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2019 Audi A3 Electrical problems

Owners have filed 1 complaint about the 2019 Audi A3's electrical system with NHTSA - 8% of all its complaints, most recently on May 11, 2021. Dead batteries, warning lights, wiring, alternators, infotainment and electronic module failures.

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Electrical complaints

Electrical systemAirbagsSeats & seat belts

I was driving my car with my friend in the passenger seat. All of a sudden car started made a beeping sound and my dashboard said something about safety feature being turned off/limited. Also the passenger airbag off light turned on even when the passenger seat was occupied. The vehicle was already in motion. This created an unsafe situation as passenger airbag was off when it should not have been. The passenger occupant detection system (pods) detected a malfunction and switch off the passenger airbag even though...

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the seat was be occupied. I reached out to audi regarding this and they said that since the repair is not available yet I will have to wait. The nhtsa recall number for this issue is 21v198. The manufacturer recall number is 69by. I have attached the latest video of this situation. If you look at the video it shows that the passenger seat is occupied and still the passenger airbag off light is on. This is the 3rd occurrence of this issue. I use my car daily and since the repair is not available yet this makes my car unsafe on the road.

Filed Incident Electrical system · Air bags · SeatsNHTSA 11416083

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