Audi Q7: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 32 recall campaigns for the Audi Q7, model years 2007 to 2026. NHTSA has 1,046 complaints on file for this model line. 18 of the 20 model years have a page on this register.

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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 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 30 Sep 2026. Recall file through 30 Sep 2026.

Model years

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

Audi Q7: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2026 Audi Q7 NHTSA page	1	1	2%	356,894
2025 Audi Q7	2	16	31%	356,955
2024 Audi Q7	3	2	4%	357,986
2023 Audi Q7	3	16	31%	357,986
2022 Audi Q7	3	20	38%	365,827
2021 Audi Q7	9	75	143%	765,700
2020 Audi Q7	5	28	54%	527,467
2019 Audi Q7	4	62	119%	94,790
2018 Audi Q7	3	143	273%	169,254
2017 Audi Q7	7	319	610%	194,700
2016 Audi Q7 NHTSA page	1	2	4%	74,881
2015 Audi Q7	2	44	84%	252,587
2014 Audi Q7	2	45	86%	252,587
2013 Audi Q7	3	43	82%	254,401
2012 Audi Q7	4	29	55%	187,309
2011 Audi Q7	4	23	44%	187,309
2010 Audi Q7	3	29	55%	161,301
2009 Audi Q7	3	21	40%	161,301
2008 Audi Q7	3	33	63%	173,099
2007 Audi Q7	3	95	182%	173,099

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

1,431 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 Q7: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Engine	145.4	208
Electrical System	142.6	204
Exterior Lighting	116.7	167
Fuel/Propulsion System	97.1	139
Unknown or Other	78.3	112
Suspension	45.4	65
Steering	40.5	58
Power Train	37.7	54
Service Brakes	37	53
Forward Collision Avoidance	30.7	44

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Audi Q7, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2016, with 6 campaigns.

Complaints about the Audi Q7, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2024, with 176 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

A427 campaigns
A654 campaigns
Q533 campaigns
A320 campaigns
S416 campaigns
A519 campaigns
TT12 campaigns
A831 campaigns
A4 Allroad12 campaigns
Q319 campaigns
Q816 campaigns
A3 Cabriolet11 campaigns
E-Tron13 campaigns
S514 campaigns
S621 campaigns
A724 campaigns
SQ514 campaigns
Quattro3 campaigns
10013 campaigns
S312 campaigns
Allroad6 campaigns
A4 Cabriolet4 campaigns
Q5 E0 campaigns
A4 Avant0 campaigns
S714 campaigns
907 campaigns
A5 Cabriolet9 campaigns
500012 campaigns
Q4 E-Tron7 campaigns
RS62 campaigns
S816 campaigns
Q6 E-Tron3 campaigns
Q5 Sportback6 campaigns
A6 Allroad9 campaigns
803 campaigns
RS 37 campaigns
Cabriolet3 campaigns
E-Tron Sportback2 campaigns
E-Tron GT15 campaigns
2005 campaigns
RS 716 campaigns
SQ711 campaigns
S5 Cabriolet11 campaigns
40007 campaigns
RS 510 campaigns
SQ810 campaigns
V84 campaigns
RS 6 Avant14 campaigns
RS E-Tron GT8 campaigns
RS 43 campaigns
TT Roadster3 campaigns
RS Q812 campaigns
A3 Sportback E-Tron3 campaigns
Fox8 campaigns
A6 Sportback E-Tron2 campaigns
R8 Spyder3 campaigns
S6 Sportback E-Tron2 campaigns
100LS4 campaigns
SQ6 Sportback E-Tron3 campaigns
Q8 Sportback E-Tron2 campaigns

Audi: all 62 model lines

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Official channels

NHTSA VIN lookupNHTSA shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle from its VIN or its license plate.
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Cite this page

Recall Register. Audi Q7: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/audi/q7/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 30 Sep 2026.

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 Q7 model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2021 with 9, 2017 with 7, 2020 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Audi Q7 model year has the most complaints?: The 2017 model year, with 319 of the 1,046 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Audi Q7 name?: Engine: 145.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 142.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 116.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Audi Q7?: 1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.