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Passenger car – Audi “A6 / A7”

Serious risk Fire

Published by Safety Gate 31 Jan 2019In the weekly report of 8 Feb 2019 (week 6, 2019)Safety Gate noticeJSON
latest report: week 43, 30 Oct 2026checked 6 min agoSource: EU Safety Gate
Product
Passenger car
Brand
Audi (131 alerts)
Name
A6 / A7
Type / model
Type-approval number: e1 * 2007/46 * 0436 * .. Type: 4G - Diesel-powered vehicles without factory-installed parking heaters, are affected.
Batch numbers
Vehicles produced between July 2014 and October 2014 are affected. (official alert record)
Description
Passenger car. Company recall code: 82C1.
Production dates
Vehicles produced between July 2014 and October 2014 are affected.
Risk
The electrical connector for the auxiliary heating element may not have been fully secured during the assembly process. This could lead to increased contact resistances in the connector area. In such cases, thermal overload could arise, which can lead to a fire.
Measures
  • Recall of the product from end users · by the manufacturer
Notifying country
Germany
Country of origin
Germany
Alert type
Consumer

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Sources

  1. Safety Gate alert A12/0217/19
    European Commission, Safety Gaterecord fields marked “official alert record”: © European Union, CC BY 4.0; values listed separately here
  2. Safety Gate weekly report Report-2019-006 (XML)
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