Is This A Lemon?

Year · Make · Model

1982 Audi 5000

What the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration knows about this vehicle: every recall, every consumer complaint, every defect investigation, every NCAP crash test. Sourced directly from NHTSA data feeds.

3
Open recalls
2
NHTSA complaints
2
Defect investigations
0
Service bulletins

Consumer complaints

2 filed
2
Crashes
0
Fires
2
Injuries reported
0
Fatalities reported

What people complain about

  • Vehicle Speed Control
    1
  • Power TRAIN:AUTOMATIC Transmission
    1

Recalls

3 campaigns
87V008000·POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:LEVER AND LINKAGE:FLOOR SHIFT1987-01-03

SUDDEN ACCELERATION FROM A STATIONARY POSITION MAY OCCUR, WHEN SHIFTING FROM PARK TO REVERSE OR DRIVE.

RiskUNEXPECTED SUDDEN ACCELERATION WITHOUT PRIOR WARNINGCOULD RESULT IN A VEHICLE CRASH, CAUSING INJURIES.

FixINSTALL AN AUTOMATIC SHIFT LOCK TO PREVENT THE TRANSMISSION SHIFT LEVER FROM BEING MOVED FROM PARK TO REVERSE OR DRIVE UNLESS BRAKE PEDAL IS APPLIED AT THE SAME TIME.

83V095000·SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:PEDALS AND LINKAGES1983-09-22

CERTAIN VEHICLES WERE ASSEMBLED WITH AN INSUFFICIENT HEIGHT DIFFERENTIAL BETWEEN THE ACCELERATOR AND BRAKE PEDALS.

RiskCONSEQUENCE OF DEFECT: THE DRIVER COULD INADVERTENTLY DEPRESS BOTH PEDALS AT ONE TIME, LOSE CONTROL, AND HAVE AN ACCIDENT.

FixDEALER WILL INSTALL A BRAKE PEDAL PLATE WHICH WILL RAISE THE BRAKE PEDAL TO THE PROPER HEIGHT.

82V037000·VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:ACCELERATOR PEDAL1982-04-21

ON THE INVOLVED VEHICLES, AN IMPROPERLY PLACED MAT INTERFERES WITH THE VIBRATION ABSORBER ATTACHED TO THE UNDERSIDE OF THE ACCELERATOR. THE PEDAL MAY NOT FULLY RETURN TO THE IDLE POSITION.

RiskCONSEQUENCE OF DEFECT: THIS COULD RESULT IN UNINTENTIONAL ACCLERATION WHICH COULD CAUSE LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL AND AN ACCIDENT.

FixDEALER WILL INSTALL, WHERE NECESSARY, A GUIDE FOR THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL AND INSPECT THE ENTIRE THROTTLE SYSTEM.

NHTSA investigations

2 actions
C86001·VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:LINKAGES1986-08-05 → 1989-07-11

SUDDEN ACCELERATION

DP86006·VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:LINKAGES1986-03-19 → 1986-06-23

SUDDEN ACCELERATION

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