Audi SQ5 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 320 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Driver-assistance systems46 (14.4%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 2021.
• Electrical system40 (12.5%)Official recall records for this system: 3, covering model years 2018–2022.
• Engine36 (11.3%)
• Steering30 (9.4%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2014–2015.
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)20 (6.3%)
• Body & structure20 (6.3%)Official recall records for this system: 6, covering model years 2018–2022.

Other / uncategorized: 26 classifications (8.1%) 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 (222 records, model years 2014–2026) are most frequently classified under: driver-assistance systems, electrical system and engine.
• Manufacturer communications (10,500 records, model years 2014–2026) 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

• 90reports included a mileage
• 23,284average 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. 2014 431 records for 2014 431
2. 2015 456 records for 2015 456
3. 2016 387 records for 2016 387
4. 2017 433 records for 2017 433
5. 2018 812 records for 2018 812
6. 2019 818 records for 2019 818
7. 2020 857 records for 2020 857
8. 2021 1,000 records for 2021 1,000
9. 2022 879 records for 2022 879
10. 2023 777 records for 2023 777
11. 2024 687 records for 2024 687
12. 2025 782 records for 2025 782
13. 2026 155 records for 2026 155

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

• 8mention a crash
• 18mention 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 38
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 10,500
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 35
• Owner complaints NHTSA 222

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.

• U0294 in 1 record · 2025–2025

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.