2013 AUDI A4 ALLROAD — Complaint #1558298
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NHTSA Complaint about WHEELS filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558298 (ODI reference 11196622) concerns a 2013 AUDI A4 ALLROAD and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 30, 2019. The vehicle had 100,050 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New Jersey based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as wheels, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same AUDI A4 ALLROAD cohort independently describe similar wheels failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2013 AUDI A4 ALLROAD shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE PROBLEM: A CLICKING OR CLACKING NOISE MAY EMANATE FROM THE FRONT WHEEL BEARINGS DUE TO A LACK OF WHEEL-BEARING LUBRICANT ON THE BEARING HOUSING ASSEMBLY. VEHICLES AFFECTED BY SERVICE BULLETIN: 2008 AUDI A4 2009 AUDI A4 2010 AUDI A4 2011 AUDI A4 2012 AUDI A4 2013 AUDI A4 2014 AUDI A4 AUDI DOES HAVE A SAFETY ISSUE ON FRONT WHEEL BEARING AFFECTED 2008-2017 AUDI. I CALL THE DEALER AND THEY SAID NO RECALL. I DO EXPERIENCED THE NOISE/ VIBRATION ASSOCIATED WITH WHEEL BEARING
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558298 |
| ODI Number | 11196622 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | March 30, 2019 |
| VIN | WAUHFAFL0DN |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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