2023 Audi Q5
This year drew an ordinary 51 complaints for a Audi Q5 — the model's median is 77. What they were about is the unusual part: 15.7% of them mention emergency, against 2.8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 51 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 77 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- emergency — 15.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (5.6×). Owners wrote it as: emergency, automatically, automatic, idle.
- before — 19.6% of this year's complaints, against 5.8% across the model's other years (3.4×).
- codes — 9.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.5% across the model's other years (4×). Owners wrote it as: codes, described.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
WHEN THE HATCHBACK ON THIS CAR HAS BEEN OPEN ON AT LEAST 8 OCASSIONS IT HAS AUTOMATICALLY PEEPED AND BEGAN TO CLOSE ON ME WHILE, FOR EXAMPLE I WAS LEANING INTO THE BACK PUTTING IN OR TAKING OUT GROCERIES. THIS CAR HAS REAR BUMPER SENSOR TO ALLOW ONE TO OPEN TH…
Transmission malfunction while driving on a highway, car towed to dealer. They found codes P074700, P077700, P17F900 (TSB 2064312/6). Replaced mechatronic unit.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V842000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 24V251000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V898000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V080000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 25V294000 ENGINE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Audi Q5 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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