2025 Audi Q5
This year drew an ordinary 40 complaints for a Audi Q5 — the model's median is 77. What they were about is the unusual part: 50% of them mention warning, against 18.2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 40 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 77 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- warning — 50% of this year's complaints, against 18.2% across the model's other years (2.7×).
- weeks — 50% of this year's complaints, against 18.6% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: weeks, last, once, creating.
- safety — 45% of this year's complaints, against 18% across the model's other years (2.5×).
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
Two weeks after purchase, experienced multiple, random driver assistance failures. After attempting to repair issue once unsuccessfully, The dealership was unable to provide a second service appointment for two and a half months. Was explained all 2025 Audis w…
All of my display screens went blank at 108 miles. I had no speedometer, no fuel level gauge, no warning indicators, and no audio alerts including turn signals. The vehicle was towed to the dealership since it was a safety issue for me to drive. It has been th…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 26V266000 SEAT BELTS 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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