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Audi A5 Cabriolet: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 9 recall campaigns for the Audi A5 Cabriolet, model years 2010 to 2022. NHTSA has 50 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 12 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20102
  2. 20112
  3. 20122
  4. 20131
  5. 20141
  6. 20151
  7. 20161
  8. 20172
  9. 20181
  10. 20201
  11. 20213
  12. 20221
Audi A5 Cabriolet: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2022 Audi A5 Cabriolet NHTSA page100%6,076
2021 Audi A5 Cabriolet300%246,850
2020 Audi A5 Cabriolet NHTSA page100%31,058
2018 Audi A5 Cabriolet NHTSA page100%145,337
2017 Audi A5 Cabriolet2248%344,543
2016 Audi A5 Cabriolet NHTSA page100%342,867
2015 Audi A5 Cabriolet NHTSA page1124%342,867
2014 Audi A5 Cabriolet NHTSA page100%342,867
2013 Audi A5 Cabriolet NHTSA page1372%342,867
2012 Audi A5 Cabriolet214336%822,275
2011 Audi A5 Cabriolet214336%822,275
2010 Audi A5 Cabriolet216384%822,275

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

52 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Audi A5 Cabriolet: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags788.541
Engine134.67
Unknown or Other38.52
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)19.21
Electrical System19.21

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Audi A5 Cabriolet, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2022, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Audi A5 Cabriolet, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 24 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Audi: all 61 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Audi A5 Cabriolet: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/audi/a5-cabriolet/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Audi A5 Cabriolet model years have the most recall campaigns?
2021 with 3, 2017 with 2, 2012 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Audi A5 Cabriolet model year has the most complaints?
The 2010 model year, with 16 of the 50 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Audi A5 Cabriolet name?
Air Bags: 788.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 134.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 38.5 per 1,000 component mentions.