- Vehicles
- 1,042
- Built between
- Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
- Models
- 8
- Recall type
- Vehicle
- Initiated by
- Manufacturer
- Owners notified
- 31 October 2025
- Repaired
- 91%
- Unrepaired
- 89
Does this affect my vehicle?
This recall covers vehicles built between June 2025 and August 2025. If yours was built outside that window, it is not part of this recall.
- 2025 Audi A5Built June 2025 to August 2025
- 2025 Audi A6 Sportback E-TronBuilt July 2025 to July 2025
- 2026 Audi Q4 E-TronBuilt June 2025 to July 2025
- 2026 Audi Q4 Sportback E-TronBuilt June 2025 to August 2025
- 2025 Audi S5Built June 2025 to July 2025
- 2025 Audi S6 Sportback E-TronBuilt July 2025 to July 2025
- 2025 Volkswagen Golf RBuilt June 2025 to July 2025
- 2025 Volkswagen GTIBuilt June 2025 to July 2025
Repair progress
89 of 1,042 vehicles in this recall had still not been repaired as of Q2 2026.
91% repaired — 953 of 1,042 reported
Manufacturers file these figures with NHTSA each quarter. Vehicles the manufacturer could not trace, or that have been scrapped or exported, are counted separately and are not included in the unrepaired figure.
What the defect is
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.
What could happen
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.
What gets fixed
Dealers will replace one or both front seat belts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 30, 2025, and October 31, 2025.
Parts involved
- Front seat belt assembly(VW): 5H1 857 705 KFront seat belt assembly
- Front seat belt assemblyAudi A5: 8B3.857.705 and .706 Index JFront seat belt assembly
- Front seat belt assemblyAudi A6: 85E.857.705 Index EFront seat belt assembly
- Front seat belt assemblyAudi Q4 e-tron: 89A.857.705 and .706 Index EFront seat belt assembly
Part numbers are as filed by the manufacturer and are listed for reference. Your dealer will confirm the correct part for your vehicle.
Timeline
- Vehicles builtJune 2025 to August 2025
- Recall reported to NHTSA24 September 2025
- Owners notified31 October 2025
- Latest repair reportQ2 2026 — 91% repaired
Your rights
A safety recall repair is free. Under US federal law the manufacturer must fix a safety defect at no cost to you — no charge for parts, labor or diagnosis — whether or not you are the original owner. A dealer cannot charge you for recall work, and cannot require you to have bought the vehicle from them.
That entitlement is not unlimited. It applies where the vehicle was first sold less than 15 years before the recall was announced — 5 years for tires. Past that a manufacturer may still do the repair free of charge, and many do, but they are no longer obliged to. This recall was reported on 24 September 2025.
To arrange the repair, contact any franchised dealer for the brand. If a dealer refuses the work or tries to charge for it, you can report that to NHTSA at nhtsa.gov/recalls or on 1-888-327-4236.
Manufacturer contact
Owners may contact Audi at 1-800-253-2834 or Volkswagen at 1-800-893-5298. Audi's number for this recall is 69UM; Volkswagen’s number for this recall is 694T. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning September 26, 2025.
Official source
- Manufacturer's recall number
- 694T 69UM
- Recalling manufacturer
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
- Recall initiated by
- MFR
Everything on this page — the models listed, the build dates and the repair figures — comes from the manufacturer's filing to NHTSA and describes the vehicle line as a whole, not any individual car. Only the manufacturer can confirm whether a specific vehicle is affected, and whether its recall work has already been carried out. Check yours by VIN and read the official notice at nhtsa.gov/recalls.
Check your own vehicle
This page describes the recall, not any one car. To see which recalls cover a specific vehicle, search by make, model and year.
A VIN lookup here identifies your vehicle and shows recalls issued for that make, model and year. It cannot tell you what is still open on your individual car - only the manufacturer knows that. Search by VIN instead, or check your VIN at nhtsa.gov for whether a recall is still open on your individual car.