Audi A6, Audi A6 Allroad, Audi A7, Audi A8, Audi Q7, Audi Q8, model year 2021. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 31 March 2025. 44,387 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2021 SQ8, A6 SEDAN, A7, A8, Q7, Q8, RS6 Avant, RS7, RSQ8, S6 SEDAN, S7, S8, A6 Allroad, and SQ7 vehicles. Due to a software error, the instrument panel display may fail.
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: 90VC. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V201 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 25V201 cover?
- Audi A6, Audi A6 Allroad, Audi A7, Audi A8, Audi Q7, Audi Q8, Audi RS 6 Avant, Audi RS 7, model year 2021.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2021 SQ8, A6 SEDAN, A7, A8, Q7, Q8, RS6 Avant, RS7, RSQ8, S6 SEDAN, S7, S8, A6 Allroad, and SQ7 vehicles. Due to a software error, the instrument panel display may fail.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An instrument panel display that fails to show critical safety information, such as the speedometer or warning lights, increases the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will update the instrument panel module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 24, 2025. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 90VC.
- 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 90VC, 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 instrument panel display that fails to show critical safety information, such as the speedometer or warning lights, increases the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V201 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Electrical System: Instrument Cluster/Panel |
| Reported to NHTSA | 31 March 2025 |
| Model years | 2021-2021 |
| Vehicles named | AUDI A6, AUDI A6 ALLROAD, AUDI A7, AUDI A8, AUDI Q7, AUDI Q8, AUDI RS 6 AVANT, AUDI RS 7, AUDI RS Q8, AUDI S6, AUDI S7, AUDI S8, AUDI SQ7, AUDI SQ8 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2021 SQ8, A6 SEDAN, A7, A8, Q7, Q8, RS6 Avant, RS7, RSQ8, S6 SEDAN, S7, S8, A6 Allroad, and SQ7 vehicles. Due to a software error, the instrument panel display may fail.
The consequence
An instrument panel display that fails to show critical safety information, such as the speedometer or warning lights, increases the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will update the instrument panel module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 24, 2025. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 90VC.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 17fa78b1c629b667a6c330f0cdb8655a…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
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 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 2025167, recorded 31 March 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 90VC, 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 A6 recalls: 31 US campaigns
- Audi A6 Allroad recalls: 9 US campaigns
- Audi A7 recalls: 24 US campaigns
- Audi A8 recalls: 20 US campaigns
- Audi Q7 recalls: 25 US campaigns since 2016
- Audi Q8 recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Audi RS 6 Avant recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Audi RS 7 recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Audi RS Q8 recalls: 12 US campaigns
- Audi S6 recalls: 16 US campaigns
- Audi S7 recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Audi S8 recalls: 15 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 25V201, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v201/
The copy quoted above hashes to 17fa78b1c629b667a6c330f0cdb8655a…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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
- 26V266: 2025 Q5, Q5 Sportback, SQ5, and SQ5 Sportback
- 26V240: 2019-2023 Audi E-Tron Quattro, 2020-2023 Audi E-Tron Sportback, 2024 Q8 E-Tron, Q8 Sportback E-Tron, SQ8 E-Tron, and SQ8 Sportback E-Tron
- 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 25V201 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ecbbe6f6 - Consequence
f9994ea2 - Remedy
a6c72c9a
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 25V201 · 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 A6 Allroad, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
Put this notice on your site
A small badge that links here and names the register's reference. It costs one line of HTML and needs no key.
The badge is free to use. It links to this page and nowhere else, and it never shows advertising.
Owners of these cars
No register publishes what happens after the letter. Owners do: tell us, in two taps.
Anonymous: no account, no cookie, nothing you type is stored beyond these choices. Figures appear once 3 owners have answered, and are published with the record under CC BY 4.0.