2018 Audi A4 problems
NHTSA has received 81 complaints about the 2018 Audi A4, and 21% of them involve electrical system. After that come engine (7%) and fuel system (7%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 81 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Electrical system 21% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 1 and 0
- Injuries and deaths
- 0 and 0
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 1 complaint mentions a crash. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 95% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2018 ranks 18th most-complained-about out of 20 model years of the Audi A4 with enough data (29 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 1 safety recall campaign.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
I was rear-ended at a slow speed. I was stopped at the time. The driver who hit me was decelerating hard. Damaged to rear bumper. When I got back in the car, I realized that telescoping steering column had been pulled toward me. This would have been bad had I been shoved into the car in front of me and the airbags deployed too close to me. Luckily, this did not happen.
New factory brakes make very loud audible screeching sound when coming to a stop.this happens just before coming to a complete stop and sometimes in the beginning of breaking. Mechanic has worked on this issue several times and reordered brakes from local audi dealership and it is still making the sound. Dealership said its 4th generation brakes and its a problem with the coating.
Front of body rides too low to ground. Body damage occurred on left front fender from driving up a steep hill after making left turn onto road with the steep hill.
Engine malfunction prevented the vehicle to engage and a significant lag. Correction of the failure has been attempted twice and a third attempt to correct malfunction is currently in progress with no movement as of yet. Gas tank has been drained and refilled and did not correct issue. Definitely not a gasoline type issue.