Audi S7 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 172 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Engine78 (45.3%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2013–2017.
• Electrical system24 (14.0%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2020–2022.
• Driver-assistance systems20 (11.6%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2020–2025.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)16 (9.3%)
• Fuel system10 (5.8%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2013–2021.
• Steering8 (4.7%)

Other / uncategorized: 2 classifications (1.2%) 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 (114 records, model years 2013–2021) are most frequently classified under: engine, electrical system and driver-assistance systems.
• Manufacturer communications (11,525 records, model years 2013–2025) 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

• 62reports included a mileage
• 66,642average 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. 2013 828 records for 2013 828
2. 2014 777 records for 2014 777
3. 2015 709 records for 2015 709
4. 2016 674 records for 2016 674
5. 2017 593 records for 2017 593
6. 2018 557 records for 2018 557
7. 2020 1,012 records for 2020 1,012
8. 2021 1,130 records for 2021 1,130
9. 2022 951 records for 2022 951
10. 2023 852 records for 2023 852
11. 2024 744 records for 2024 744
12. 2025 489 records for 2025 489

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 fire
• 2mention 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 51
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 11,525
• Investigations NHTSA 10
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 45
• Owner complaints NHTSA 114

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.

• P0507 in 8 records · 2013–2016
• P0501 in 4 records · 2013–2014
• P0700 in 4 records · 2013–2014
• P2279 in 4 records · 2013–2016
• P060A in 2 records · 2013–2014
• P0715 in 2 records · 2013–2014
• P0716 in 2 records · 2013–2014
• P2159 in 2 records · 2013–2014
• P2765 in 2 records · 2013–2014

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.