2020 Audi Q3 — reported problems
CarFaultIQ holds 944 evidence records for the 2020 Audi Q3, drawn from official sources and owner complaints.
What owners report: issue areas
Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 112 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.
- Electrical system22 (19.6%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2015–2017.
- Engine21 (18.8%)
- Fuel system10 (8.9%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2021–2022.
- Steering9 (8.0%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2019.
- Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)6 (5.4%)
- Speed control & accelerator6 (5.4%)
Other / uncategorized: 18 classifications (16.1%) 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
- 35reports included a mileage
- 4,834average 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.
- 2015 757 records for 2015
- 2016 688 records for 2016
- 2017 604 records for 2017
- 2018 597 records for 2018
- 2019 847 records for 2019
- 2020 944 records for 2020
- 2021 857 records for 2021
- 2022 811 records for 2022
- 2023 656 records for 2023
- 2024 609 records for 2024
- 2025 393 records for 2025
- 2026 49 records for 2026
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
- 2mention a crash
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 2
- Manufacturer communications NHTSA 878
- Owner complaints NHTSA 64
Where to go next
- Audi Q3 coverage hub Published problems, year windows and buyer guidance for this model.
- Evidence Explorer — the underlying records Read the individual recalls, investigations, manufacturer communications and complaints these counts come from.
- All model years of the Audi Q3 Compare how much evidence is held for each year before narrowing to one.
- Browse all vehicle coverage Every make and model CarFaultIQ has published coverage for.