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Vehicle history — accidents, title & owners
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NHTSA publishes the first 11 characters of the VIN with every complaint — that identifies the plant, model year, body and engine. So these are reports from cars built exactly like this one, not an average across the whole model.
WA1BNAFY3J2••••••2018 Audi Q5
That is about average for the 2018 Audi Q5 — 5 complaints per build across 35 builds.
8on this build
188on the model
35builds in total
Most reportedForward Collision Avoidance 3Exterior Lighting 3Structure 1
What owners of this build wrote
Unknown Or OtherSep 2025
The vehicle stalls and does not move forward while I was driving it stalled. I had to allow it to roll freely out of traffic
Exterior LightingAug 2024
The panel showed vehicle lights malfunction. The side marker lights are on all the time. This happened without any accident or changes of the setting
Forward Collision AvoidanceAug 2024
Such incident happened two times: when I was driving at normal speed, another vehicle quickly approached me from back while switching to my lane. Out of any instruction, my vehicle applied brakes to decelerate. This almost caused crash and put my safety at high risk!
StructureJan 2019
On three occasions beginning in the spring of 2018, the tailgate has randomly opened with no command from the owners. Each time the car has been in our garage and we have been elsewhere. Each time the tailgate collided with the garage door when we opened the garage door was…
Exterior LightingJun 2024
On 06/13/24, milage 61023, I experienced a failure in Left Tail Light. There was no damage to the housing unit, ie a crack in the lighting unit, but I was advised that the entire housing unit needed to be replaced as there was water in the housing unit that corroded the light…
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Decoded via NHTSA vPIC. Recalls, complaints and safety from NHTSA; MPG from EPA fueleconomy.gov. Full history reports from our partner. VIN WA1BNAFY3J2095859 · decoded Aug 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.