Audi Q3 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 720 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Electrical system128 (17.8%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2015–2017.
• Engine112 (15.6%)
• Fuel system70 (9.7%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2021–2022.
• Driver-assistance systems62 (8.6%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 2016–2025.
• Steering38 (5.3%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2019.
• Air bags (restraint system)30 (4.2%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2019–2024.

Other / uncategorized: 98 classifications (13.6%) 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 (466 records, model years 2015–2026) are most frequently classified under: electrical system, engine and fuel system.
• Manufacturer communications (9,287 records, model years 2015–2026) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system 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

• 178reports included a mileage
• 21,460average 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. 2015 757 records for 2015 757
2. 2016 688 records for 2016 688
3. 2017 604 records for 2017 604
4. 2018 597 records for 2018 597
5. 2019 847 records for 2019 847
6. 2020 944 records for 2020 944
7. 2021 857 records for 2021 857
8. 2022 811 records for 2022 811
9. 2023 656 records for 2023 656
10. 2024 609 records for 2024 609
11. 2025 393 records for 2025 393
12. 2026 49 records for 2026 49

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
• 4mention a fire
• 14mention an injury

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 44
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 9,287
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 37
• Owner complaints NHTSA 466

Explore the underlying evidence records