Recall · 26V266000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 4 models over seat belts
7,425
Vehicles covered
4
Models
4
Model years
April 24, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:PRETENSIONER
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2025 Q5, Q5 Sportback, SQ5, and SQ5 Sportback vehicles. The driver and front passenger seat belts may have been manufactured incorrectly, and fail to properly restrain occupants during a crash.
- What it can cause
- Improperly restrained occupants have an increased risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the driver and front passenger seat belts as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 29, 2026. Owners may contact Audi's customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 69GT.
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 7,425 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 77% 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, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 9 times before this, most recently in December 2025 as 25V899000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 47 complaints with NHTSA, 25 of them before this campaign was filed. 4 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
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 April 24, 2026 as campaign 26V266000. 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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