Audi Q7, Audi Q8, Audi Rs Q8, Audi Sq8, model year 2025. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 12 November 2025. 61 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 Audi RS Q8, Audi Q8, Audi Q7, and Audi SQ8 vehicles. The driver and front passenger seat belt buckles may be missing a rivet that secures the buckle to the seat belt stalk.
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.
Volkswagen's own number for this recall: 692K. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V777 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 25V777 cover?
- Audi Q7, Audi Q8, Audi RS Q8, Audi SQ8, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 Audi RS Q8, Audi Q8, Audi Q7, and Audi SQ8 vehicles. The driver and front passenger seat belt buckles may be missing a rivet that secures the buckle to the seat belt stalk.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A seat belt that is missing a rivet may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will replace both front seat belt buckles, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 3, 2025. Owners may contact Audi at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 692K.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Volkswagen calls this recall 692K, 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 seat belt that is missing a rivet may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V777 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Front:Anchorage |
| Reported to NHTSA | 12 November 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | AUDI Q7, AUDI Q8, AUDI RS Q8, AUDI SQ8 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 Audi RS Q8, Audi Q8, Audi Q7, and Audi SQ8 vehicles. The driver and front passenger seat belt buckles may be missing a rivet that secures the buckle to the seat belt stalk.
The consequence
A seat belt that is missing a rivet may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will replace both front seat belt buckles, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 3, 2025. Owners may contact Audi at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 692K. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on November 14, 2025.
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 556843d9f9e187b320a8485cb7ad3e41…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 451 notices in the record whose component field names seat belts. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 48 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 2025621, recorded 12 November 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
- European Union: Safety Gate alert SR/04382/25, published 19 December 2025, raised by Germany (the Commission’s own page) (37 days after the American filing)
Matched on 692K, 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 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 25V777, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v777/
The copy quoted above hashes to 556843d9f9e187b320a8485cb7ad3e41…. 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.
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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 25V777 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
fa9aabb5 - Consequence
5227a841 - 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 25V777 · how the whole register is watched
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