Audi Q7, Audi Q8, Audi Rs Q8, Audi Sq7, Audi Sq8, model years 2023 to 2024. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 20 December 2023. 1,001 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2023-2024 SQ8, RSQ8, Q8, Q7, and 2024 SQ7 vehicles. The driver's seat side air bag may have been improperly mounted to the seatback frame. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 214, …
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: 69GA. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 23V868 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 23V868 cover?
- Audi Q7, Audi Q8, Audi RS Q8, Audi SQ7, Audi SQ8, model years 2023-2024.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2023-2024 SQ8, RSQ8, Q8, Q7, and 2024 SQ7 vehicles. The driver's seat side air bag may have been improperly mounted to the seatback frame.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An improperly mounted air bag may not restrain an occupant as intended, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and reinstall the air bag as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 17, 2024. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 69GA.
- 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 69GA, 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: “An improperly mounted air bag may not restrain an occupant as intended, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 23V868 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Air Bags:Side/Window |
| Reported to NHTSA | 20 December 2023 |
| Model years | 2023-2024 |
| Vehicles named | AUDI Q7, AUDI Q8, AUDI RS Q8, AUDI SQ7, AUDI SQ8 |
What the notice says today
The consequence
An improperly mounted air bag may not restrain an occupant as intended, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and reinstall the air bag as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 17, 2024. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 69GA.
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 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The same recall in other countries
This campaign carries a manufacturer code that also appears in another country’s register, which means the same defect was recalled there too.
- Canada: Transport Canada recall 2023685, recorded 20 December 2023 (within a week of the American filing)
- European Union: Safety Gate alert A12/00409/24, published 23 February 2024, raised by Germany (the Commission’s own page) (2 months after the American filing)
Matched on 69GA, the manufacturer’s own number for this campaign, which is the only field the registers share. Exact match, nothing paired on brand and date. The two dates are adjacent instruments rather than the same one, so a difference of a day or two means nothing.
How often the two countries file on the same day · The European alerts
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Audi Q7 recalls: 25 US campaigns since 2016
- Audi Q8 recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Audi RS Q8 recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Audi SQ7 recalls: 11 US campaigns
- Audi SQ8 recalls: 10 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 23V868, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/23v868/
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.
Other Audi notices we hold
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- 26V209: 2026 Q3
- 26V125: 2019 Audi Q8, Audi A7, and Audi A6
- 25V900: 2019-2026
- 25V899: 2025 SQ6 E-Tron, SQ6 Sportback E-Tron, Q6 Sportback E-Tron, A6, A5, A6 Sportback E-Tron, Q6 E-Tron, S5, and S6 Sportback E-Tron
- 25V294: 2022-2024 Q5 Quattro and Q5 Sportback Quattro
- 25V227: 2022-2023 RS E-TRON GT and E-TRON GT
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 23V868 on 5 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
0e128a09 - Consequence
154f42a3 - 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.
The wording we hold for 23V868 · how the whole register is watched
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Audi RS Q8, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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