Audi A5 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 890 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Electrical system160 (18.0%)Official recall records for this system: 7, covering model years 2013–2021.
• Engine134 (15.1%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2013–2022.
• Air bags (restraint system)100 (11.2%)Official recall records for this system: 13, covering model years 2008–2020.
• Driver-assistance systems90 (10.1%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2021–2022.
• Steering54 (6.1%)
• Body & structure34 (3.8%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2018.

Other / uncategorized: 114 classifications (12.8%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (646 records, model years 2008–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, engine and air bags (restraint system).
• Transport Canada recalls (67 records, model years 2008–2025) are most frequently classified under: air bags (restraint system), seat belts and electrical system.
• Manufacturer communications (20,277 records, model years 2008–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, equipment & accessories and engine.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 242reports included a mileage
• 46,590average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2008 494 records for 2008 494
2. 2009 692 records for 2009 692
3. 2010 926 records for 2010 926
4. 2011 1,004 records for 2011 1,004
5. 2012 1,077 records for 2012 1,077
6. 2013 1,407 records for 2013 1,407
7. 2014 1,107 records for 2014 1,107
8. 2015 920 records for 2015 920
9. 2016 732 records for 2016 732
10. 2017 711 records for 2017 711
11. 2018 1,085 records for 2018 1,085
12. 2019 1,016 records for 2019 1,016
13. 2020 1,119 records for 2020 1,119
14. 2021 1,068 records for 2021 1,068
15. 2022 967 records for 2022 967
16. 2023 898 records for 2023 898
17. 2024 775 records for 2024 775
18. 2025 531 records for 2025 531
19. 2026 174 records for 2026 174

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 16mention a crash
• 6mention a fire
• 10mention an injury
• 2mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 57
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 20,277
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 67
• Owner complaints NHTSA 646

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0299 in 38 records · 2009–2013
• P0300 in 32 records · 2008–2013
• P0234 in 16 records · 2009–2012
• P0301 in 12 records · 2008–2010
• P0461 in 9 records · 2014–2016
• P050A in 2 records · 2025–2025
• P0016 in 1 record · 2009–2009
• P0017 in 1 record · 2009–2009
• P0018 in 1 record · 2009–2009
• P0019 in 1 record · 2009–2009
• P2294 in 1 record · 2008–2008

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.