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2008 Audi A6 Lighting problems

Owners have filed 6 complaints about the 2008 Audi A6's lights with NHTSA - 8% of all its complaints, most recently on April 3, 2018. Headlights, tail lights, brake lights, turn signals and interior lighting failures.

Complaints
6
Recalls
0
Crashes
0
Fires
0
Injuries
0
Deaths
0

Lighting complaints

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Headlight flickering and turns off with dipped light warning. Rear lights warnings of bulbs out random times. Shutting lights off and on resolves issue with headlights.

Filed Incident Exterior lightingNHTSA 11083138
Lights

Tl* the contact owns a 2008 audi a6. While driving 55 mph, smoke entered the cabin of the vehicle. The contact noticed that the passenger side brake light melted and the driver side brake flickered. It was diagnosed that the brake lights needed to be rewired. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue. The failure mileage was 134,570.

Filed Incident Exterior lightingNHTSA 10892149
Lights

Left headlight low dipping error left headlight goes out while drivimg

Filed Incident Exterior lightingNHTSA 10853518
Electrical systemLights

The head light would work sometimes and others it would not took vehicle the dealer was told must remove bumper and replace head lamp assembly complete the cost would be around $ 800.00After researching specific problem head lamp was replaceable without bumper removal and without headlamp assembly replacement cost 100.00 Price of bulb. Audi of america should be able to troubleshoot this problem very easy and they are purposely trying to rip the customer off. Not to mention the danger a intermittent head light posses on the road dip head light error. *Tr

Filed Incident Electrical system · Exterior lightingNHTSA 10499979
Lights

Headlight turns off during night time operation and displays error code dipped headlight. *Tr

Filed Incident Exterior lightingNHTSA 10342675
Lights

My wife and child were driving through the desert in arizona when our audi's driver-side xenon headlight failed. Then again 2 months later, driving with my wife and child through california the passenger-side headlight failed. Both times I was told it was the bulb. But we couldn't simply buy a new bulb. Audi needs to order it and take off the bumper to replace them. About a month later, driving through the arizona desert with my family, the driver-side light went out again. This time audi service said they need to...

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replace the igniter for the xenon lamp. This all happened within 5 months time. I'd only owned the vehicle about 2 years. When these lights fail, I have to use fog lamps or high beams to have at least 2 lights working at once. *Tr

Filed Incident Exterior lightingNHTSA 10298193

Audi A6 lighting complaints by year

A6 lighting problems, every year

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