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2016 Audi A3 air bags problems

37 complaints about air bags have been filed for the 2016 Audi A3, which is 31% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
37 31% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
0 and 0
Injuries and deaths
0 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

None of the air bags complaints mention a crash, fire, injury or death.

What owners wrote

I had the seat pod recall repair made on my car and this did not fix the problem of the indicator going off and a notice on the dash of "audi pre-sense: system fault!" notice. In other words, the problem of a faulty airbag connector wire was not solved by a wire replacement. I was told that the seat-occupied weight sensor was probably bad - from dealer but not covered under the warranty.

February 2020

I went in to get the pods connector recall work done. Before this work was done the passenger airbag would go on and off intermittently, however, now the passenger airbag is always off. They are saying that the connector is a separate problem from the weight sensor. The pods system has been recalled in other audi models for this very problem.

Reported at 47,000 miles, January 2021

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