1991 Audi 80
Safety record from NHTSA: recalls, owner complaints, investigations and service bulletins.
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These records cover every 1991 Audi 80. To see whether one car still needs a recall repair, decode its VIN or check it with NHTSA.
Recalls
2 recalls name the 1991 Audi 80. Newest first.
Vehicle description: passenger vehicles. some air bag sensors do not comply with audi's durability standards over the lifetime of the vehicle.
Risk and remedy
Risk
In the event the sensor should malfunction, the air bag restraint system can inadvertently deploy. deployment of the air bag restraint system without warning could cause a driver to lose vehicle control.
Remedy
Dealers will replace the air bag sensor control module.
The differential oil of the transaxle IS lost over time due to evaporation. Low oil levels cause premature bearing and gear wear and eventual failure of the differential.
Risk and remedy
Risk
In the event of failure, the vehicle's drive wheels couldlose power. In extreme circumstances, the front wheels lock, causing rapiddeceleration resulting in possible loss of vehicle control and an accident.
Remedy
Drain and replace the differential gear oil with oil having higher performance characteristics.
Owner complaints
2 complaints
Latest complaints
- Power train › Axle assembly
Tl*the contact owns a 1991 audi 80. while driving 5 mph the front wheels locked and would not unlock. the vehicle was towed to the dealer. eight months before the gear was stuck in reverse but eventually released. there was a nhtsa campaign ID 93v006000 (power train: axle assembly), however; the vin was not included. the current and failure mileages were 161,000.
- Power train › Automatic transmission
Transmission overheats/shifts hard.
Defect investigations
NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation opened these reviews into vehicles including this one.
- Inadver.air bag deployment
There is no summary currently available
Service bulletins
Technical service bulletins and other communications the manufacturer sent dealers about this vehicle. Ask a dealer for the full document by its number.
- 10249085Google Maps Street View (NVLW))
- 10249054Due to new Minnesota state regulations regarding biofuels, biodiesel blends of B5 or less may not be available in the State of Minnesota.
- 10155644This special notice is to inform dealers to return all part numbers listed in the document and order the superseded part numbers going forward.
- 10128222Due to increasing requests for high voltage personal protective equipment (HVE PPE) for dealer technicians working with high voltage vehicles (Hybrid, Plugin Hybrid, Electric Vehicle), the Volkswagen Tools and Equipment Team has identified two US based suppliers to support dealers in USA and Canada.
- 10058584Audi: engine, on some vehicles, would run irregularly or have malfunction indicator lamp (mil) on or possible filter element for camshaft adjustment valve can loosen and in oil circuit, there IS no damage from loosened particles. Model all. All years.
- 10022141Headlight aiming, using hella universal beamsetter.
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