Audi A4 2009–2013 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin A571499 2029151- · NHTSA communication 10122196 · issued Jan 3, 2014
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment Adaptive/mobility
component
2009–2013
model years
30
vehicle entries
Official summary
Supersedes Technical Service Bulletin Group 57 number 13-87 dated March 27, 2013. The door cannot be opened from outside with the outer door handle, but it can be opened with the inner handle. The complaint is often described as follows: The customer locks the vehicle and checks by pulling the door handle whether the vehicle is locked. When opening the vehicle again, the door cannot be opened. It feels as if the handle is slack. When fitting the Bowden cable from the mounting bar to the door lock, the cable can get kinked. In some cases, this can increase the inner friction of the strand in th
Vehicles covered
- 2010 Audi A4
- 2013 Audi A4 Allroad
- 2011 Audi A4 Avant
- 2012 Audi A4 Avant
- 2010 Audi A5
- 2011 Audi A5
- 2012 Audi A5
- 2013 Audi A5
- 2010 Audi A5 Cabriolet
- 2011 Audi A5 Cabriolet
- 2012 Audi A5 Cabriolet
- 2013 Audi A5 Cabriolet
- 2012 Audi A6
- 2013 Audi A6
- 2012 Audi A7
- 2013 Audi A7
- 2011 Audi A8
- 2012 Audi A8
- 2013 Audi A8
- 2013 Audi Allroad
- 2009 Audi Q5
- 2010 Audi Q5
- 2011 Audi Q5
- 2012 Audi Q5
- 2013 Audi Q5
- 2013 Audi RS5
- 2010 Audi TT
- 2011 Audi TT Roadster
- 2012 Audi TT Roadster
- 2013 Audi TT Roadster
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.