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Acceleration & cruise control

1997 Audi A8 Acceleration problems

Owners have filed 2 complaints about the 1997 Audi A8's acceleration & cruise control with NHTSA - 20% of all its complaints, most recently on February 16, 2005. They describe 1 crash, 0 fires and 0 injuries. Unintended acceleration, surging, throttle problems and cruise or adaptive cruise faults.

Complaints
2
Recalls
0
Crashes
1
Fires
0
Injuries
0
Deaths
0

Acceleration complaints

Acceleration & cruise control

While driving the consumer's 1997 audi a8 quattro accelerated suddenly. *Nm *nm

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10113823
Acceleration & cruise controlCrash

While applying the brakes to park this vehicle it suddenly accelerated. Vehicle came to a stop after being wedged in between two parked vehicles. Dealer has been contacted. *Ak

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 846336

Audi A8 acceleration complaints by year

A8 acceleration problems, every year

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