"This lawsuit involves all owners of Audi A4’s from 1997 – 2006, B5 and B6 platforms. In the lawsuit states that Audi was aware of a design flaw that would allow water to fill up the passenger compartment through the sunroof drains and fresh air vent, but did nothing to repair it. (sound familiar?) The lawsuit further complains that the damages from the water ingress, and subsequent damage to the carpeting, drying, cleaning, replacement of said carpeting or padding and potential damage to the wiring harnesses is eligible for reimbursement through the settlement. Audi has been required to set up a fund of $8 million for these claims. They have also revised the maintenance schedule for these cars and now require you to take them to the Audi dealer every 2 years to get the drains and fresh air intakes serviced.

It gets more interesting……..the above is the main part of the lawsuit, there is a “subclass” to this lawsuit for the same known defects. This includes model years 1997 – 2009 of the VW Golf, GTI, Jetta, Cabrio, new Beetle, Passat, Toureg, Audi A4, Cabrio, A6, Allroad, or A8 including the S and RS versions that were imported into the U.S. either for lease or for sale. Each has a portion of the settlement with VW and Audi that is different than that described for the owners of 1997 – 2006 A4’s above. They did also say that claims for personal injury (including physical, psychological, or mental injury) for death, or for damages to property other than that described above will not be accepted. They have been released as part of the litigation.

So my take on this is that a whole bunch of people had the same thing happen that you did. Car filled up with water. They got pissed and filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of all the owners and people who leased in order to get Audi and VW to pay up for damages. What this also tells me is that all the cars listed in the lawsuit could have, at one time or another, been filled with water which could cause obvious damage to the carpeting or not so obvious damage to anything electrical that was near the floor including the wiring harness."