NHTSA Safety Recalls
Audi Recalls
Audi has 826 model-year recall listings with NHTSA across 45 models and 2000–2025 model years. The model with the most is the A6, with 102.
Owners have filed 8,656 complaints with NHTSA about the Audi model years listed here; the most, 321, concern the 2017 Q7.
7 Audi models have enough complaint data for a years-to-avoid ranking; 3 of them have at least one year that stands out.
Complaints about Audi vehicles most often name the electrical system (at least 1,846), then the air bags (1,367).
The Audi model with the most owner complaints is the A4: 1,866 across 14 model years listed here.
The newest Audi recall here, 26V590000, was reported on September 11, 2026 and concerns the steering.
Audi recalls most often concern the air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module (59 model-year listings), then the air bags: frontal: driver side: inflator module (53).
- Models
- 45
- Recall listings
- 826
- Model years
- 2000–2025
- Pages on file
- 267
campaign × model year
year + model
Audi models, most recalls first
| Model | Recalls | Years covered |
|---|---|---|
| Audi A6 | 102 | 2000–2023(21) |
| Audi Q5 | 82 | 2009–2025(16) |
| Audi Q7 | 61 | 2007–2025(17) |
| Audi A7 | 49 | 2012–2021(10) |
| Audi A3 | 46 | 2006–2020(14) |
| Audi A4 | 40 | 2000–2021(14) |
| Audi A5 | 34 | 2008–2021(11) |
| Audi A8 | 32 | 2000–2015(15) |
| Audi S7 | 30 | 2013–2021(7) |
| Audi S8 | 28 | 2007–2021(8) |
| Audi S4 | 26 | 2000–2021(17) |
| Audi S6 | 26 | 2001–2020(11) |
| Audi TT | 25 | 2000–2016(11) |
| Audi Q3 | 22 | 2015–2025(9) |
| Audi SQ5 | 22 | 2014–2025(7) |
| Audi Q8 | 20 | 2019–2025(5) |
| Audi allroad | 19 | 2001–2018(10) |
| Audi e-tron | 18 | 2019–2021(3) |
| Audi S5 | 16 | 2012–2021(5) |
| Audi A6 allroad | 13 | 2020–2025(3) |
| Audi SQ7 | 11 | 2020–2025(4) |
| Audi S3 | 10 | 2015–2020(6) |
| Audi A5 Cabriolet | 9 | 2010–2021(4) |
| Audi SQ8 | 9 | 2020–2024(3) |
| Audi A4 Cabriolet | 7 | 2008–2009(2) |
| Audi RS Q8 | 7 | 2021–2021(1) |
| Audi Rs7 | 7 | 2014–2016(3) |
| Audi A4 allroad | 6 | 2018–2023(4) |
| Audi Rs5 | 6 | 2018–2019(2) |
| Audi RS e-tron GT | 5 | 2024–2024(1) |
| Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron | 4 | 2016–2018(3) |
| Audi e-tron Sportback | 4 | 2020–2021(2) |
| Audi Q4 E-Tron | 4 | 2024–2025(2) |
| Audi S5 Cabriolet | 4 | 2010–2011(2) |
| Audi Q6 E-Tron | 3 | 2025–2025(1) |
| Audi RS 6 Avant | 3 | 2021–2024(2) |
| Audi Q4 Sportback E-Tron | 2 | 2024–2025(2) |
| Audi RS 4 | 2 | 2007–2007(1) |
| Audi RS 7 | 2 | 2021–2021(1) |
| Audi Rs3 | 2 | 2018–2019(2) |
| Audi Rs6 | 2 | 2003–2003(1) |
| Audi S6 Sportback E-Tron | 2 | 2025–2025(1) |
| Audi Sq6 E-Tron | 2 | 2025–2025(1) |
| Audi Q6 Sportback E-Tron | 1 | 2025–2025(1) |
| Audi RS 3 | 1 | 2017–2017(1) |
What gets recalled most on Audi vehicles
- AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE59
- AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE53
- BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA43
- AIR BAGS:SENSOR:OCCUPANT CLASSIFICATION39
- FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP38
- ELECTRICAL SYSTEM35
- TIRES34
- ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM28
- FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS28
- SUSPENSION:REAR:AXLE:NON-POWERED AXLE ASSEMBLY26
- AIR BAGS24
- SEAT BELTS:REAR/OTHER:RETRACTOR23
Audi years to avoid, by model
Models sold in large numbers over many years collect more recalls and complaints than niche ones.
Newest record on this page: October 22, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted