Audi Q7: curtain-airbag batches and evidence after impact

3D body illustration

4M body illustration. 4M (2015+)

Original 3D illustration: 2015 Audi Q7 (4M (2015+))

«2015 Audi Q7» — razor24, CC BY 4.0. Author’s original. The web container was unpacked without changing the model data.

This is a body illustration, not a photo, a measurement or a reconstruction of a specific VIN. Trim and part match is not confirmed.

What the supplier found

iSi’s September 10, 2020 report describes an incorrectly welded nozzle directing inflator gas into the curtain. This could prevent proper inflation. Certain inflators made May 3 and May 8, 2019 are involved; individual serial and production records were linked to vehicle VINs.

iSi Automotive Austria GmbH / NHTSA repository: Part 573 Equipment Recall Report 20E-066

Applicability and the full analysis

Preserve the evidence sequence after impact

Retain known event circumstances, initial cabin photographs and proper restraint-system findings. A deployed curtain, damaged trim and diagnostic entry are separate observations. An absent picture does not reconstruct the event.

Editorial inspection order.