Audi A5, Audi A6, Audi A6 Sportback E-Tron, Audi Q6 E-Tron, Audi Q6 Sportback E-Tron, Audi S5, model year 2025. Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 19 December 2025. 27,768 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 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 vehicles. The automatic locking retractor may fail to engage when a child seat is installed using the seat belt. As such, these …
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: 69D8. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 25V899 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 25V899 cover?
- Audi A5, Audi A6, Audi A6 Sportback E-Tron, Audi Q6 E-Tron, Audi Q6 Sportback E-Tron, Audi S5, Audi S6 Sportback E-Tron, Audi SQ6 E-Tron, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 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 vehicles.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An improperly secured child seat can increase risk of injury during a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and replace the right and left rear seat belt assembly as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 16, 2026. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 69D8.
- 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 69D8, 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 secured child seat can increase risk of injury during a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 25V899 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. |
| System at fault | Seat Belts:Rear/Other:Retractor |
| Reported to NHTSA | 19 December 2025 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | AUDI A5, AUDI A6, AUDI A6 SPORTBACK E-TRON, AUDI Q6 E-TRON, AUDI Q6 SPORTBACK E-TRON, AUDI S5, AUDI S6 SPORTBACK E-TRON, AUDI SQ6 E-TRON, AUDI SQ6 SPORTBACK E-TRON |
What the notice says today
The defect
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 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 vehicles. The automatic locking retractor may fail to engage when a child seat is installed using the seat belt. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) numbers 208, "Occupant Crash Protection" and 209, "Seat Belt Assemblies."
The consequence
An improperly secured child seat can increase risk of injury during a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and replace the right and left rear seat belt assembly as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 16, 2026. Owners may contact Audi customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 69D8. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 23, 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 1bc81833637279e0c733243991b6ce15…, 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 2025712, recorded 19 December 2025 (within a week of the American filing)
Matched on 69D8, 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 A5 recalls: 18 US campaigns
- Audi A6 recalls: 31 US campaigns
- Audi Q6 E-Tron recalls: 3 US campaigns
- Audi S5 recalls: 14 US campaigns
- Audi SQ6 Sportback E-Tron recalls: 3 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 25V899, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v899/
The copy quoted above hashes to 1bc81833637279e0c733243991b6ce15…. 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
- 25V294: 2022-2024 Q5 Quattro and Q5 Sportback Quattro
- 25V227: 2022-2023 RS E-TRON GT and E-TRON GT
- 25V226: 2025 SQ6 and Q6
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 25V899 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
25e940a0 - Consequence
3478f77d - 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 25V899 · 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 Q6 E-Tron, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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