Defect: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is recalling certain 2025 GTI, Golf R, Audi A5, A6 Sportback E-Tron, S5, S6 Sportback E-Tron, 2026 Q4 Sportback E-Tron, and Q4 E-Tron vehicles. The torsion bar in one or both front seat belt retractors may have been damaged during production. (excerpt)
Consequence: In a crash, a damaged torsion bar in a retractor could fail. If this happens, the seat belt may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury. (excerpt)
Remedy: Dealers will replace one or both front seat belts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 30, 2025, and October 31, 2025. Owners may contact Audi at 1-800-253-2834 or Volkswagen at 1-800-893-5298. Audi's number for this recall is 69UM; Volkswagena s number for this recall is 694T. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov (excerpt)
Do not drive: No. Park outside: No.
Investigations
0 investigations; 0 open.
Manufacturer communications
192 manufacturer communications.
Communications by system
System
Count
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
88
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
30
STRUCTURE
21
SERVICE BRAKES
13
SUSPENSION
9
STEERING
7
ENGINE
6
VISIBILITY/WIPER
6
11038027
Date: 2026-09-25. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: UNKNOWN OR OTHER.
This bulletin provides information for reporting safety related information to the manufacturer.
11038130
Date: 2026-09-25. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: UNKNOWN OR OTHER.
This bulletin states that technicians are required to report to the manufacturer when a vehicle has flooded, and specify the height to which the vehicle has been flooded.
11038024
Date: 2026-09-22. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: VISIBILITY/WIPER.
This bulletin provides service information regarding exterior glass cleaning.
11038042
Date: 2026-09-22. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: STEERING.
This bulletin provides information about vibrations and rotational steering vibrations.
11038056
Date: 2026-09-18. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: STRUCTURE.
This bulletin provides information about billing for a broken sunroof glass panel.
11038126
Date: 2026-09-17. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: UNKNOWN OR OTHER.
This bulletin provides informaiton when there is an electrical drive system warning lamp; DTC P0A2B00 (41505).
11038025
Date: 2026-09-15. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: UNKNOWN OR OTHER.
This bulletin provides information when the license plate mounting bracket threded inserts are stripped.
11038039
Date: 2026-09-14. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: STRUCTURE.
This bulletin provides information when there are stails/marks on the sill panel trim.
11038109
Date: 2026-09-14. Type: Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions. Systems: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM.
This bulletin provides a combined software update; ID.S 5.6.3 for Audi Q4 V7T BL.
11038143
Date: 2026-09-09. Type: Other. Systems: UNKNOWN OR OTHER.
This special notice is to inform dealers to return the parts listed if it meets the criteria provided.
Notes on this record
Complaints from the API and bulk file are merged and deduplicated by ODI number; the API alone misses records.
System and subsystem counts are numbers of distinct complaints, recalls or communications that name them. One record can name several systems, so shares across systems can add to more than 100 percent; a single share never exceeds 100 percent.
Recalls are counted once per campaign, investigations once per action and manufacturer communications once per NHTSA id, even when NHTSA lists several model names for the same record.
A sales denominator is a calendar-year proxy, not the population of vehicles still in use. Rates are copied from verified pipeline output.
NHTSA's complaints API and bulk file list no complaint for this make, model and model year in this data build.