Audi S8 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 106 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Engine42 (39.6%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2013–2021.
• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)16 (15.1%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2007–2025.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)8 (7.5%)
• Fuel system6 (5.7%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2013–2016.
• Speed control & accelerator6 (5.7%)
• Brakes4 (3.8%)

Other / uncategorized: 8 classifications (7.5%) 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 (84 records, model years 2007–2021) are most frequently classified under: engine, visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors) and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).
• Manufacturer communications (11,716 records, model years 2001–2026) 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

• 58reports included a mileage
• 65,445average 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. 2001 64 records for 2001 64
2. 2002 65 records for 2002 65
3. 2003 75 records for 2003 75
4. 2007 146 records for 2007 146
5. 2008 208 records for 2008 208
6. 2009 258 records for 2009 258
7. 2013 821 records for 2013 821
8. 2014 660 records for 2014 660
9. 2015 688 records for 2015 688
10. 2016 639 records for 2016 639
11. 2017 417 records for 2017 417
12. 2018 346 records for 2018 346
13. 2020 984 records for 2020 984
14. 2021 1,129 records for 2021 1,129
15. 2022 879 records for 2022 879
16. 2023 842 records for 2023 842
17. 2024 725 records for 2024 725
18. 2025 478 records for 2025 478
19. 2026 137 records for 2026 137

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

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 59
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 11,716
• Investigations NHTSA 10
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 49
• Owner complaints NHTSA 84

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.

• P0300 in 8 records · 2008–2009
• P0301 in 8 records · 2008–2009
• P0507 in 8 records · 2013–2016
• P2279 in 4 records · 2013–2016
• P2294 in 2 records · 2007–2008

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.