Consumer stated via e-mail I fumani shisana while driving on june 3 2004 hit a patch of water in the road. Vehicle started sliding from side to side uncontrollably. Tried to regain control of the vehicle and it slid off the road onto the grass on driver's side. Consumer removed safety belt and jumped out of the front passenger's door. Upon impact, none of the air bags deployed. While reaching into the vehicle to retrieve cellular phone consumer noticed flames emerging from the front passenger side indicator light. Then, vehicle was engulfed in flames. Consumer narrowly escaped with his life. Reported incident to the police and volkswagen audi. Volkswagen audi seemed to act quit slowly on taking action to rectify the situation.
2001 Audi A6 electrical complaints
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The alternator bracket broke at 60 miles per hour with resulting loss of vbelt mechanism and power steering. This occurred on a straight road. The resulting steering difficulty on a curved road would have resulted in a crash even at 30 miles per hour..
Consumer stated the transmission is inoperative, when putting vehicle in drive it will move 15 - 20 feet then it will stop for about 4 seconds, then vehicle will accelerate, vehicle was taken into dealer, the vehicle is not consistent in selecting the starting gear, sometimes starting fast at other times, slow, the speedometer is not visible in direct sunlight, even with sunshdes on, consumer also stated the vehicle stalls. *jg
When applying brakes there is a low screeching noise, this is when vehicle is in a stopping position, and going at low speed, contact dealer and had no response.*ak accelerator pedal needs to be pushed down between one and two inches to get any response, extreme pressure needed when using horn. *tt
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