# Service bulletin SM 49\-2020

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10178830
- Published by NHTSA: 2020\-09\-03
- Manufacturer's number: SM 49\-2020
- Manufacturer's date: 2020\-08\-14
- NHTSA component: EQUIPMENT; STEERING

## NHTSA's summary

This special notice is to inform dealers to return the part numbers listed if they meet the criteria.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10178830-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2020/MC-10178830-9999.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Equipment and accessories, Steering

## Vehicles listed

- 2019 to 2020 AUDI A6
- 2019 to 2020 AUDI A7
- 2018 to 2020 AUDI A8

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2023659](/recalls/tc/2023659.md), 2023-12-13: Accessories

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [TSB\_2074846\_5](/bulletins/11038042.md), 2026-10-05, Service bulletin: STEERING. This bulletin provides information about vibrations and rotational steering vibrations.
- [TSB\_2065871\_4](/bulletins/11038031.md), 2026-10-05, Service bulletin: STEERING. This bulletin provides informaiton when DTC B200FF0 is stored.
- [TSB\_2063546\_5](/bulletins/11036903.md), 2026-09-04, Service bulletin: STEERING. This bulletin provides service infomraiton regardin gthe identifaction of noises with dynamic steering.
- [TSB\_2074846\_4](/bulletins/11028405.md), 2026-02-06, Service bulletin: STEERING. This bulletin provides information about vibrations and rotational steering vibrations.
- [TSB\_2028220\_13](/bulletins/11027350.md), 2026-01-07, Service bulletin: STEERING. This bulletin provides regarding visual damage for all vehicles.
- [TSB\_2074846\_3](/bulletins/11025340.md), 2025-11-08, Service bulletin: STEERING. This TSB provides information regarding rotational and other steerihng wheel vibrations.
- [TSB\_2075199\_2](/bulletins/11023767.md), 2025-10-03, Service bulletin: STEERING. This bulletin provides information when there is a prompt to take over steering; hands off detection.
- [TSB\_2061904\_7](/bulletins/11018963.md), 2025-06-03, Service bulletin: STEERING. This TSB provides information when the warning message "Steering lock for active steering failed" appears.
- [TSB\-2061904\_6](/bulletins/11015734.md), 2025-03-19, Service bulletin: STEERING. This TSB provides information when the warning message "Steering lock for active steering failed.
- [A4825772065978\_4](/bulletins/11013697.md), 2025-02-05, Service bulletin: STEERING. This bulletin provides information when the steering wheel does not heat up sufficiently.

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