{"nhtsa_id":10123657,"type":"service_bulletin","type_name":"Service bulletin","date_added":"2017-11-17","date":"2015-12-04","document_id":"A401548 2042603-","mfr_campaign":null,"replaces":null,"component":"STEERING","mfr_system":null,"summary":"When the vehicle is driven between 35 mph and 75 mph, a noise can be heard in the front of the vehicle. The customer may say that the noise is coming from the steering column area, and may describe the sound as buzzing, humming, whistling, whining, grinding, howling, and/or droning. The best way to understand the complaint is to discuss it with the customer. Faulty wheel bearing(s) may cause the noise.","document":{"url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2015/MC-10123657-9999.pdf","alternate_url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2015/MC-10123657-0001.pdf","confirmed":false},"url":"https://open.wenmarpro.com/bulletins/10123657","components":[{"id":"steering","name":"Steering","parent":null}],"codes":[],"topics":[],"vehicles":[{"make":"AUDI","model":"A4","year_from":2009,"year_to":2010,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2009_audi_a4","2010_audi_a4"]},{"make":"AUDI","model":"A4 ALLROAD","year_from":2013,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2013_audi_a4-allroad","2014_audi_a4-allroad","2015_audi_a4-allroad","2016_audi_a4-allroad"]},{"make":"AUDI","model":"A4 AVANT","year_from":2011,"year_to":2012,"match":null,"vehicle_ids":[]},{"make":"AUDI","model":"A5","year_from":2009,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2009_audi_a5","2010_audi_a5","2011_audi_a5","2012_audi_a5","2013_audi_a5","2014_audi_a5","2015_audi_a5","2016_audi_a5"]},{"make":"AUDI","model":"A5 CABRIOLET","year_from":2009,"year_to":2015,"match":null,"vehicle_ids":[]},{"make":"AUDI","model":"A6","year_from":2012,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2012_audi_a6","2013_audi_a6","2014_audi_a6","2015_audi_a6","2016_audi_a6"]},{"make":"AUDI","model":"A7","year_from":2012,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2012_audi_a7","2013_audi_a7","2014_audi_a7","2015_audi_a7","2016_audi_a7"]},{"make":"AUDI","model":"A8","year_from":2011,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2011_audi_a8","2012_audi_a8","2013_audi_a8","2014_audi_a8","2015_audi_a8","2016_audi_a8"]},{"make":"AUDI","model":"Q5","year_from":2009,"year_to":2016,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2009_audi_q5","2010_audi_q5","2011_audi_q5","2012_audi_q5","2013_audi_q5","2014_audi_q5","2015_audi_q5","2016_audi_q5"]}],"as_of":"2026-10-19","note":"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.","attribution":[]}