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Audi Sq5 · 2025

1 recall affects this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

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  • Severity pendingNHTSA·26V266000·2026-04-24

    Audi Q5 front seat belts may fail to restrain occupants

    Audi is recalling certain 2025 Q5, Q5 Sportback, SQ5 and SQ5 Sportback vehicles because the driver and front passenger seat belts may have been manufactured incorrectly.

    Product
    AUDI — AUDI Q5, Q5 SPORTBACK, SQ5, SQ5 SPORTBACK
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide

NHTSA crash-test safety rating

Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.

Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.

Wider context for this vehicle

Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.

Federal investigations

  • EA22001 Engineering Analysis · engine and engine cooling:engine:gasoline:turbo/supercharger
  • PE21009 Preliminary Evaluation · engine and engine cooling:engine:gasoline:turbo/supercharger

Technical service bulletins

1,132 manufacturer service bulletins across 13 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

  • 2025: 4.4/5 · 6 complaints
  • 2024: 4.5/5 · 6 complaints
  • 2022: 4.8/5
  • 2021: 3.9/5 · 11 complaints · most complained-of: powertrain
  • 2020: 4.1/5 · 7 complaints

This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.

Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.

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