11V267000
FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY
A FUEL LEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF AN IGNITION SOURCE COULD LEAD TO A VEHICLE FIRE.
2001 AUDI A6
1 safety recall campaign, 2 defect investigations, 148 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations2
Owner complaints148
Complaints citing a crash17
Complaints citing a fire11
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 10TIRES
- 10POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- 9AIR BAGS
- 6FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY
- 6ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
- 5FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
- 5AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
- 5FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2001 AUDI A6s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.