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2011 Audi A4 Steering problems

Owners have filed 4 complaints about the 2011 Audi A4's steering with NHTSA - 12% of all its complaints, most recently on May 6, 2019. Loss of power steering, stiff or loose steering, wandering, column and rack problems.

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Steering complaints

Steering

As I am making a turn onto another street in town my steering wheel locks up, when I complete a turn it won't walk it's way back around, you have to force it around. I have never felt something like this before, it is definitely a safety issue.

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 11205890
Steering

Electronic power steering causing unsafe instability on freeways. Intermittently the power steering assist is failing intermittently causing the driver to apply excessive force to move the steering wheel but soon after this the power steering assist comes back on and hence turning the steering more than required and ending up in an unsafe position or swerving on freeways and even at low speeds. The issue seems to be a well documented issue and can happen at any mileage with reports out there on cars with less than 5k miles. Audi should have a tsb and recall for this.

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 11183697
Steering

While driving on i75 in florida at 70 mph on june 18, 2017, the steering suddenly failed. I managed to keep control and get the car home with strong physical effort in keeping the steering straight. I took car to audi naples on monday june 19, 2017. I was told the entire rack and pinion shaft failed and needed complete replacement. Audi replaced the rack and pinion shaft and u connector. The car only had 42, 800 miles and has been maintained by audi by the book since I bought it new from audi.

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 11001488
SteeringElectrical system

Ignition coils went out. Car stopped on busy street but was able to move to side street. Come to find out after I purchased the car the coils were recalled.. Spoke with someone at audi and they verified there was a recall on the coils. No one notified me including the dealership gurley leep and he did not notify me and I had to come out of $1,000 to have that process fixed then I had to turn around less than 24 hours again and something was wrong with the steering again I had to come out of another $1,000 this is...

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b******* someone should have contacted me about the problems with the vehicle but that did not happen so to audi and to gurley leep screw you that was $2,000 I came out of. No help from audi nor dealership what so ever.. And I do believe I still have the transcript from the audi representative that verify there was something wrong with the ignition coils.... Not sure of the exact date but I believe it was april of 2015.

Filed Incident Steering · Electrical system · Unknown or otherNHTSA 10854151

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