3 recalls across 6 model years
The Audi A3 Sportback e-tron has 3 recalls covering 2016-2018 model years, the most serious being a 2016 front passenger airbag inflator that can explode during deployment and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.
The remaining two recalls both involve the passenger seat occupant detection system on 2016-2018 vehicles. In both cases, the sensor can malfunction and switch off the front passenger airbag even when someone is seated, leaving that occupant without airbag protection in a crash. These are separate filings describing the same practical failure: the system incorrectly reads the seat as empty and disables the airbag.
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