Audi Q5, Audi Q5 Sportback, Audi Sq5, model years 2018 to 2022. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 8 December 2021. 288,991 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Q5 Sportback, SQ5 Sportback, 2018-2022 Q5, and SQ5 vehicles. A liquid spill in the rear seat, or water ingress from an insufficient body seam underneath the vehicle may allow liquid to penetrate the gateway control module, causing it to shutdown.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Audi's own number for this recall: 90S9. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 21V947 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 21V947 cover?
- Audi Q5, Audi Q5 Sportback, Audi SQ5, model years 2018-2022.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2021-2022 Q5 Sportback, SQ5 Sportback, 2018-2022 Q5, and SQ5 vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A gateway control module shutdown will suddenly reduce engine power, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will install a protective cover on the gateway control module and seal an underbody seam as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 21, 2022. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 90S9.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Audi calls this recall 90S9, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A gateway control module shutdown will suddenly reduce engine power, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 21V947 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Body Control Module/BCM |
| Reported to NHTSA | 8 December 2021 |
| Model years | 2018-2022 |
| Vehicles named | AUDI Q5, AUDI Q5 SPORTBACK, AUDI SQ5 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A gateway control module shutdown will suddenly reduce engine power, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will install a protective cover on the gateway control module and seal an underbody seam as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 21, 2022. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 90S9.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Audi Q5 recalls: 25 US campaigns since 2016
- Audi Q5 Sportback recalls: 6 US campaigns
- Audi SQ5 recalls: 14 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 21V947, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/21v947/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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- 25V294: 2022-2024 Q5 Quattro and Q5 Sportback Quattro
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All 59 Audi campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 21V947 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
97e56c80 - Consequence
0125e9dc - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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