2026 Audi Q5

The 2025 Audi Q5 lacked a standard remote start feature, surprising owners. 2026 models include remote engine start in the Audi Connect CARE package.

Audi's privacy policies for connected services and data handling are hard to navigate, with multiple versions, broken links, and unavailable pages. Buyers struggle to understand data practices before ...

Pricing for Audi Q5's connected services subscriptions is not publicly available and requires a login or account creation to access. Buyers cannot easily compare total ownership costs upfront.

The 2026 Audi SQ5 dashboard has space for an optional third passenger screen; without it, the area looks unfinished and cheap. This detracts from the premium interior quality buyers expect.

The auto start-stop system shuts off the engine at stops to save fuel but resets to on every time the car starts, requiring drivers to disable it manually each drive. Owners find this repetitive proce...

Multiple dashboard warning lights illuminate frequently or on startup, including check engine and others, even when the car drives normally. Owners report a 'Christmas tree' effect with constant alert...

Advanced driver assistance systems like lane keeping, Pre-Sense braking, and speed limit warnings produce aggressive beeps or chimes that some owners find overly nagging. Disabling often requires shor...

The car chimes or alerts to remind owners to take their phone when exiting. New MMI software makes it hard to find and disable this persistent notification.

Traffic signal detection shows a red light icon with countdown at intersections but works inconsistently or stops entirely without settings changes.

Blind spot monitoring lights up erroneously several car lengths behind other vehicles, not just in actual blind spots.

Disabling traction or stability control triggers prolonged beeps and bongs for about 30 seconds as the systems protest.

The 2025 Audi Q5 uses capacitive touch-sensitive buttons on the steering wheel instead of physical ones. Owners report they are prone to accidental activation by the palm or hand, making volume contro...

Door panels on the 2025-2026 Audi Q5 place controls for lights, mirrors, and seat memory exactly where your hand grabs to close the door. This leads to accidental presses and makes closing the door fe...

The MyAudi smartphone app allows remote features like locking and starting the 2025-2026 Q5 but frequently fails to connect, shows errors, or requires constant re-pairing. Owners report it rarely work...

Wireless Apple CarPlay in the Q5 infotainment system frequently disconnects and reconnects on its own, sometimes turning off the radio and failing to play music. This happens repeatedly during drives.

The Q5's large central touchscreen and touch-sensitive controls have poor responsiveness, registration issues, and bounce, especially when used with the non-dominant hand. Owners find it frustrating a...

The Q5 climate control system relies on touchscreen menus or poorly placed touch surfaces without physical knobs, lacking ergonomic design. Menus are slow to load, taking up to a minute.

In the Q5's digital gauge cluster, the RPM gauge appears in the wrong lower position in Comfort and Efficiency modes instead of centrally. It only moves correctly in Dynamic mode.

The 2025 Q5 replaced many physical buttons with all-touch capacitive controls, losing the tactile feedback owners preferred. This affected steering wheel (updated to physical in 2026), doors, and inte...

The 2025 Audi Q5's over-the-air (OTA) software updates cause the premium sound system to stop outputting audio despite appearing active. Owners must restart the car or press the volume button repeated...

OTA updates introduce unwanted automatic regenerative braking on city streets to slow for detected pedestrians or vehicles, even with related assist features disabled. Owners report it interferes with...

After OTA or TSB MMI updates, the subwoofer selection disappears from the B&O 3D sound system settings in the 2025 Q5, preventing use of paid audio options.

The myAudi smartphone app automatically tracks and logs all your driving trips, including locations visited. Owners report frustration over this constant surveillance and seek ways to disable it.

Audi collects a wide range of personal and vehicle data including name, email, address, geolocation, voice commands, speed, and seat belt usage, plus data from third-party brokers, dealerships, and so...

Audi shares and sells collected personal and vehicle data to third parties, including Volkswagen Group companies, dealers, and content providers, primarily for marketing and advertising.

The Audi vehicle is equipped with interior cameras and microphones that can record occupants. This raises concerns about constant in-car surveillance.

GPS location tracking is enabled and active by default on Audi vehicles even before purchase or lease. The myAudi app further enables geofencing and speed alerts for vehicle monitoring.

In 2021, Audi experienced a significant data breach compromising 3.3 million users' information, which was subsequently sold by hackers.

Audi's privacy policy admits that data and conversations transmitted to and from the vehicle over wireless networks cannot be guaranteed secure.

Not all Audi users can request deletion of their collected data, regardless of their location.

The 2025-2026 Audi Q5's infotainment and vehicle control software suffers from frequent glitches and errors, often requiring dealer visits for updates. Owners report multiple malfunction warnings, sys...

Owners experience sudden 'Christmas tree' displays of multiple warning lights on the dashboard, often linked to software faults. These trigger check engine lights, low battery warnings, and sensor ale...

Software failures cause the Q5 to refuse starting, displaying error messages or going completely dead with no power. This affects new cars, sometimes stranding owners, and is tied to battery or system...

The Q5's MMI infotainment system shows glitches like Android Auto failing, satellite view not displaying, and general errors. These are common early-adopter issues expected to improve with updates. Bl...

Audi Connect provides connected vehicle features like navigation, remote access, and app connectivity. Owners complain that these essential features require ongoing paid subscriptions after purchase, ...