1999 Audi Allroad: what breaks, and at what mileage
What breaks on the 1999 Audi Allroad
Only 4 defect reports have been filed with NHTSA about the 1999 Audi Allroad, which is too few to compute mileage percentiles or a risk score. The reports reported fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure.
When each failure gets reported
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
How reports accumulate
Every report with an odometer reading, cumulative, from 0 to 200,000 miles. A curve that climbs early is a car with early problems, whatever its total.
- Line share of reports filed by that mileage
Every reported failure mode
| Failure mode | System | Reports | With reading | 25th | Median | 75th | Per 1,000 | Typical repair | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure | fuel | 2 | 2 | — | 85k | — | 0.2 | $250–$1,800 | Moderate |
| Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure | steering | 2 | 2 | — | 170k | — | 0.2 | $700–$2,600 | High |
This year had no usable recall paperwork, so the fleet-size estimate is the median of other years of the same model. Repair costs are typical independent-shop ranges for the failure, not figures from these reports.
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The odometer reading is the one the owner gave.
Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure
The ABS control module has malfunctioned and the cost to repair is over $1600. I have been to both an audi dealer and received the $1600 quote, and to my personal mechanic who said the part is quite easy to replace but expensive to purchase. I have read hundreds of comments from other audi owners who have experienced this problem. There has been shown a 90% failure rate for this part in audi's. The car also has an issue with the gas tank where it does not release air from the tank properly and causes too much pressure. *tr
The ABS control module has malfunctioned and the cost to repair is over $1600. I have been to both an audi dealer and received the $1600 quote, and to my personal mechanic who said the part is quite easy to replace but expensive to purchase. I have read hundreds of comments from other audi owners who have experienced this problem. There has been shown a 90% failure rate for this part in audi's. The car also has an issue with the gas tank where it does not release air from the tank properly and causes too much pressure. *tr
Every year of the Audi Allroad
Scores compare each year against other cars of the same model year, so a low number on an older car is a real result and not an artefact of age.
Shorter is better. Years with too few reports to score are shown without a bar rather than as a zero, because no data is not good news.
What the reports on file say
The complaints recorded against the 1999 Audi Allroad are fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure (2 reports, around 85k miles) and steering rack, gear or tie rod failure (2 reports, around 170k miles). With a sample this size these are anecdotes rather than a pattern, and they are shown because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see them than nothing.
Why this page is short
A model year needs about 8 reports before percentiles mean anything, and this one does not have them. Complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road, so a thin page usually means a rare car, a new car, or a car whose owners do not file.
Other years of the same model do have enough: 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2013. The mechanical parts are often shared across those years, so their pages are the better guide to what this one is likely to do, with the caveat that a shared part is not a shared production line.
Where this comes from. Every figure above is computed from NHTSA owner complaints and recall records for this exact make, model and year. Complaints are voluntary and self-selected, so treat counts as a floor. The methodology page writes out each formula, and the same numbers are available as JSON.
What breaks at my mileage Compare with another car
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed