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2025 Audi SQ5

Every safety complaint, recall and defect investigation the US government holds on this vehicle.

Owners have filed 6 safety complaints about the 2025 Audi SQ5 with the US government. Of those, no death is recorded. One recall campaign is open against it, covering the seat belts.

The most complained-about system is forward collision avoidance, named in 2 complaints, 33% of the total.

Compiled from NHTSA's complaint, recall and investigation files · Covers November 2025 to August 2026 · How this is counted

What is on file

6 complaints on file

6

Complaints

0

Describe a crash

0

Mention fire

0

People injured

0

Deaths

A complaint is an unverified account by the person who filed it, not a finding of fault. One complaint is one ODI number, which is how NHTSA counts them.

A recall is the manufacturer conceding a defect, and the repair is free. Whether one covers your particular car is a question only its VIN can answer, because a campaign covers a production range rather than a model year.

Which system owners named

Complaints naming each system
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 2 · 33%
FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM 2 · 33%
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 · 17%
ENGINE 1 · 17%
EXTERIOR LIGHTING 1 · 17%
POWER TRAIN 1 · 17%
STEERING 1 · 17%
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL 1 · 17%
VISIBILITY 1 · 17%
0 4 8

Red marks a system with a recall campaign against it. One complaint can name several systems, so these add up to more than 6.

When the complaints arrived

By the year NHTSA received them

By the year NHTSA received them, which is not the year the failures happened. They peaked in 2026 at 5.

8 6 4 2
25 26

This is the year the complaint was filed, not the year the failure happened. The range runs from 2025 to 2026 , the last of them a part year, which is why its column is drawn faint.

Crash test ratings

NHTSA New Car Assessment Program

NHTSA crashes a car into a barrier and a pole and measures what happens to the dummies inside. This is what it awarded the 2025 Audi SQ5, and it is a separate question from what owners report going wrong later.

Test SUV AWD
Overall Not rated
Frontal crash Not rated
Frontal, driver Not rated
Frontal, passenger Not rated
Side crash Not rated
Side barrier Not rated
Side pole Not rated
Rollover
Chance of rollover 16.4%
Stability control standard Forward collision warning standard Lane departure warning standard

A dash means NHTSA did not rate that test for this vehicle.

Recall campaigns

1 on file

SEAT BELTS:PRETENSIONER

26V266000 · April 24, 2026

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.
The risk
Improperly restrained occupants have an increased risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
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.

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. · up to 7,425 vehicles across all model years covered

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Other years of the Audi SQ5

Model year Complaints Recalls Deaths
2021 11 5 —
2019 18 5 —
2018 24 5 —
2015 8 1 —
2014 12 1 —

Other 2025 Audi models

Q5 41 Q6 E-Tron 29 Q7 15 S5 9 A5 8 A6 5 SQ6 E-Tron 5

Complaints on file, same model year.

Every Audi on this site — 152 vehicles, 217 recall campaigns and 0 open investigation s.

If this is your car and a dealer keeps failing to fix it, your state's lemon law may require the manufacturer to replace it or buy it back. How many repair attempts it takes, and how long you have to file, is set by the state you bought in and by nothing on this page.

Where these numbers come from

A complaint is one owner's account and has not been verified by NHTSA or by us. A vehicle with more complaints is not necessarily worse: models that sold in larger numbers collect more of them. How this is counted.

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