Recall Register

Audi Q5 Sportback: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the Audi Q5 Sportback, model years 2022 to 2025. NHTSA has 29 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 4 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. 20225
  2. 20232
  3. 20241
  4. 20251
Audi Q5 Sportback: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Audi Q5 Sportback NHTSA page100%7,425
2024 Audi Q5 Sportback NHTSA page100%89,417
2023 Audi Q5 Sportback2683%165,932
2022 Audi Q5 Sportback523317%457,852

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

53 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 Q5 Sportback: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine150.98
Electrical System132.17
Unknown or Other113.26
Service Brakes113.26
Forward Collision Avoidance94.35
Lane Departure94.35
Power Train75.54
Back Over Prevention56.63
Vehicle Speed Control37.72
Structure37.72

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Audi Q5 Sportback, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Audi Q5 Sportback, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2022, with 17 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Audi: all 62 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Audi Q5 Sportback: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/audi/q5-sportback/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
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 Q5 Sportback model years have the most recall campaigns?
2022 with 5, 2023 with 2, 2025 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Audi Q5 Sportback model year has the most complaints?
The 2022 model year, with 23 of the 29 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Audi Q5 Sportback name?
Engine: 150.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 132.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 113.2 per 1,000 component mentions.