Audi A3 2018–2025 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin A4025862061464_9 · NHTSA communication 11013693 · issued Jan 9, 2025
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Power Train
component
2018–2025
model years
60
vehicle entries
Official summary
This bulletin provides information when a cracking noise can be heard from the vehicle front or rear end while changing direction.
Vehicles covered
- 2018 Audi A3
- 2019 Audi A3
- 2020 Audi A3
- 2022 Audi A3
- 2023 Audi A3
- 2024 Audi A3
- 2025 Audi A3
- 2018 Audi A3 Cabriolet
- 2019 Audi A3 Cabriolet
- 2018 Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron
- 2019 Audi A8
- 2020 Audi A8
- 2021 Audi A8
- 2022 Audi A8
- 2023 Audi A8
- 2024 Audi A8
- 2025 Audi A8
- 2020 Audi A8 L E
- 2021 Audi A8 L E
- 2019 Audi E-Tron
- 2021 Audi E-Tron
- 2022 Audi E-Tron
- 2023 Audi E-Tron
- 2020 Audi E-Tron Sportback
- 2021 Audi E-Tron Sportback
- 2022 Audi E-Tron Sportback
- 2023 Audi E-Tron Sportback
- 2019 Audi Q3
- 2020 Audi Q3
- 2021 Audi Q3
- 2022 Audi Q3
- 2023 Audi Q3
- 2024 Audi Q3
- 2025 Audi Q3
- 2024 Audi Q8 E-Tron
- 2025 Audi Q8 E-Tron
- 2024 Audi Q8 Sportback E-Tron
- 2025 Audi Q8 Sportback E-Tron
- 2018 Audi RS 3
- 2019 Audi RS 3
- 2020 Audi RS 3
- 2022 Audi RS 3
- 2023 Audi RS 3
- 2024 Audi RS 3
- 2018 Audi S3
- 2019 Audi S3
- 2020 Audi S3
- 2022 Audi S3
- 2023 Audi S3
- 2024 Audi S3
- 2025 Audi S3
- 2020 Audi S8
- 2021 Audi S8
- 2022 Audi S8
- 2023 Audi S8
- 2024 Audi S8
- 2025 Audi S8
- 2024 Audi SQ8 E-Tron
- 2025 Audi SQ8 E-Tron
- 2024 Audi SQ8 Sportback E-Tron
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.