The consumer experienced an inconsistency with acceleration when making right hand turns. *Jb the consumer stated that when he drives the vehicle it feels like he is starting off in third gear. *Tc
Acceleration & cruise control
2001 Audi A8 Acceleration problems
Owners have filed 4 complaints about the 2001 Audi A8's acceleration & cruise control with NHTSA - 24% of all its complaints, most recently on November 9, 2004. Unintended acceleration, surging, throttle problems and cruise or adaptive cruise faults.
- Complaints
- 4
- Recalls
- 0
- Crashes
- 0
- Fires
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Deaths
- 0
Acceleration complaints
Consumer states the accelerator pedal got stuck while driving, increasing the speed to 100mph. The consumer was able to turn the ignition off to stop due to no brake response. Vehicle is a 2001 audi a8 quattro dealer was contacted. Please provide more information.*Jb
This is an intermittent problem that happens when the car is driven for at least 15 minutes and is brought to a full stop. When the gas pedal is depressed, the engine remains at idle from between 1 to 3 seconds and the car does not move. During this time frame, the foot remains depressing the gas pedal and not on the brake pedal. Once the engine rpms do increase, the car will accelerate hard (jump). Several instances have occurred were the car jumped into a busy intersection, nearly causing an accident each...
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time. My children were in the car during those times. This problem was not only experience by myself, but with my wife and a friend (who used to perform safety tests for porsche) and both have driven the car. The car has been brought in several times for this specific problem but it could not be reproduced at that time and nothing done to it other than a software patch applied to the tiptronic control module (tcm). This did not fix the problem as it still exists.*Ak
This model car is widely recognized to exhibit unpredictable acceleration when equiped with the automatic transmission.(See allroad forum on audiworld.Com) when accelerating from a stop or from an almost stop the car sometimes pauses for up to 2 seconds and at other times accelerates quickly. In my experience this is an extremely dangerous behavior. Some of the car magazines actually do not recommend purchase of this car due to this characteristic. Audi does not acknowledge the problem.
Audi A8 acceleration complaints by year
A8 acceleration problems, every yearSource: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints and recalls, checked . Complaints are owners' own reports and are not verified. How we use the data