Recall Register

Audi SQ5: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 14 recall campaigns for the Audi SQ5, model years 2013 to 2025. NHTSA has 19 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 11 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. 20130
  2. 20141
  3. 20151
  4. 20160
  5. 20170
  6. 20185
  7. 20195
  8. 20204
  9. 20215
  10. 20222
  11. 20251
Audi SQ5: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Audi SQ5 NHTSA page100%7,425
2022 Audi SQ5200%288,992
2021 Audi SQ5500%576,834
2020 Audi SQ5400%366,418
2019 Audi SQ5500%602,103
2018 Audi SQ554232%612,300
2017 Audi SQ5 NHTSA page02116%
2016 Audi SQ5 NHTSA page03174%
2015 Audi SQ5 NHTSA page13174%5,625
2014 Audi SQ5 NHTSA page16347%5,625
2013 Audi SQ5 NHTSA page0158%

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

21 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 SQ5: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering238.15
Visibility/Wiper190.54
Electrical System142.93
Unknown or Other142.93
Engine95.22
Fuel/Propulsion System47.61
Power Train47.61
Parking Brake47.61
Forward Collision Avoidance47.61

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Audi SQ5, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Audi SQ5, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 5 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Audi: all 61 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Audi SQ5: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/audi/sq5/. 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 SQ5 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2021 with 5, 2019 with 5, 2018 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Audi SQ5 model year has the most complaints?
The 2014 model year, with 6 of the 19 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Audi SQ5 name?
Steering: 5 component mentions. Visibility/Wiper: 4 component mentions. Electrical System: 3 component mentions.