Recall · 25V638000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 8 models over seat belts
1,042
Vehicles covered
8
Models
8
Model years
September 24, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT:RETRACTOR
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 GTI, Golf R, Audi A5, A6 Sportback E-Tron, S5, S6 Sportback E-Tron, 2026 Q4 Sportback E-Tron, and Q4 E-Tron vehicles. The torsion bar in one or both front seat belt retractors may have been damaged during production.
- What it can cause
- In a crash, a damaged torsion bar in a retractor could fail. If this happens, the seat belt may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace one or both front seat belts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 30, 2025, and October 31, 2025. Owners may contact Audi at 1-800-253-2834 or Volkswagen at 1-800-893-5298. Audi's number for this recall is 69UM; Volkswagen’s number for this recall is 694T. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning September 26, 2025.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| AudiA5 | 2025 | 2025 |
| AudiA6 Sportback E-Tron | 2025 | Not published here |
| AudiQ4 E-Tron | 2026 | Not published here |
| AudiQ4 Sportback E-Tron | 2026 | Not published here |
| AudiS5 | 2025 | 2025 |
| AudiS6 Sportback E-Tron | 2025 | Not published here |
| VolkswagenGolf R | 2025 | Not published here |
| VolkswagenGTI | 2025 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 1,042 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 59% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2025 to 2026, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2025, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Volkswagen vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 9 times before this, most recently in August 2021 as 21V606000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 8 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 17 complaints with NHTSA.
The vehicles on this campaign carry one other recall published here: 25V899000 (seat belts).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. with NHTSA on September 24, 2025 as campaign 25V638000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2025-09-24.
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