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Audi A3 Cabriolet 2015technical service bulletin

Bulletin A011520 2040489- · NHTSA communication 10119984 · issued Apr 24, 2015

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2015
model years
1
vehicle entries

Official summary

The MIL is on. DTCs are stored in the ECM. No relevant component or electrical problems are found when Guided Fault Finding (GFF) is run on the stored fault codes. The current ECM software does not accurately model soot loading at idle, which may trigger a false DPF overload warning.

Vehicles covered

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.