Recall · 25V899000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 9 models over seat belts
27,768
Vehicles covered
9
Models
9
Model years
December 19, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:REAR/OTHER:RETRACTOR
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2025 SQ6 E-Tron, SQ6 Sportback E-Tron, Q6 Sportback E-Tron, A6, A5, A6 Sportback E-Tron, Q6 E-Tron, S5, and S6 Sportback E-Tron vehicles. The automatic locking retractor may fail to engage when a child seat is installed using the seat belt. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) numbers 208, "Occupant Crash Protection" and 209, "Seat Belt Assemblies."
- What it can cause
- An improperly secured child seat can increase risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the right and left rear seat belt assembly as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 16, 2026. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 69D8. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 23, 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 .
How this campaign compares
At 27,768 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 86% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2025, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2025, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 8 times before this, most recently in November 2025 as 25V777000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 5 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 56 complaints with NHTSA, 7 of them before this campaign was filed. 1 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 4 other recalls published here: 25V900000 (back over prevention), 25V638000 (seat belts), 25V226000 (back over prevention), 25V225000 (back over prevention).
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 December 19, 2025 as campaign 25V899000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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