Crash Test Audi A3 SportBack 1999 - 2003 Hatchback

Protection of the driver and passenger

Frosting, driver

Front Punch, Passenger

Side blow, driver

- Excellent - Good - Satisfactorily - Badly - Very bad

Children's holding devices

Child up to 18 months	No data
Child older than 3 years	No data

Safety pedestrians

- Excellent - Good - Satisfactorily

Comments:

The base bundle of A3 included side airbags, and its body showed a good result with frontal and lateral blows. With a frontal impact, it needs to improve the protection of the legs and it is necessary to reduce the load on the chest from the seat belt. Protection of pedestrians worse, although the car received two stars in this test.

Front punch:

The driver's door helped to preserve the shape of the doorway and, thus, the integrity of the passenger salon. The level of compression of the cabin was also relatively low. Front airbags provided stable contact with the heads of the front seds. The load on chest safety belts should be reduced, especially for the passenger. Castle, position adjustment lever and steering column bracket represented a danger to the knees and top of the driver's feet.

Security of passenger children:

The rear seat belts were equipped with automatic latches, which are used when installing children's chairs, but there were no instructions for their use. The safety belt buckle is poorly connected to the recommended child seat, did not allow the belt to completely fasten. On the central rack there was a pictogram with a warning about the inadmissibility of the installation of a children's chair "against the direction of movement" opposite the front passenger airbag. A similar message was located on the windshield, however, it did not mention the probabilities of causing a life-threatening injury when installing a chair, and the sticker itself could easily break away.

Side strike:

The door was located aluminum beam connected to the threshold. It saves the vertical door profile. The side airbag protects the chest and the abdominal area of \u200b\u200bthe driver. After the shock between the airbag module and the door, 70 mm is preserved. A load from the door was rendered to the pelvis, although there is a foam filler in it.

Pedestrian safety:

It seems that when creating this car, designers did not make efforts to ensure the safety of pedestrians: the bumper and the front edge of the hood turned out to be traumatic. Head defense turned out to be better: only four points showed a bad result.

General information about the car

Roelf location	Left
Tested model	Audi A3 1.6.
Body type	3-door hatchback
Year of data publishing	1998
Curb weight	1095

Safety systems:

Pretensels of front seat belts	There is
Front Belts Load Loaders	No
Driver Front Airbag	There is
Passenger Front Airbag	There is
Side airbags	There is
Side Head Airbags	No
Driver's knees and feet airbag	No