2000 Audi S4 Steering Problems

“Like many other people who own an Audi S4 with 50,000 miles, I am having brake light issues. Only mine are much more severe that what I have read thus far. I took my car in for it's 60000, and had the mechanic check the brake light. Leading up to the repair, I had been *losing brake fluid* almost monthly. This should never happen, for any reason. But, my mechanic took three hours and discovered that the battery was leaking sulfuric acid onto my brake line, my power steering line, and my clutch line. …”

“A frontal collision with another vehicle at 50 MPH. Upon impact, driver's air bag did not deploy, and the steering wheel came off the steering column. Neither the driver nor the one passenger was injured. Both parties were wearing seat belts.”

“Audi USA has engineering control and were contacted and present during repair. Under very icy conditions on straight road, during acceleration from very slow speed, vehicle pitched into oversteer condition. Not entirely unexpected, but after a difficult recovery, when all seemed ok, it oversteered again quite violently. This was again recovered, but it appeared that there was an ABS brake input , certainly not of my doing. The third cycle was more severe, and I left the road. …”

“The door locks and alarm system failed when my car was stolen from the ikea parking lot in elizabeth, new jersey. Thieves punched or drilled a hole in the driver door between the door handle and door lock and were able to open the door and disable the alarm system at the same time. After breaking the steering column, starting the car, and outrunning police, the car was recovered via lojack with all my personal belongings gone. Audi should adress this issue by making new cars with an improved security system and by doing something for existing owners to fix this costly and dangerous problem. …”