2013 AUDI Q5 Premium Plus

The 2013 Audi Q5 is listed by the auction with a salvage title and “FRONT END” as the primary damage classification. Stage 1 reports that the visible evidence supports the front-end damage claim: the hood, bumper, grille, front fenders, lighting areas, cooling components, and related front-end parts show extensive visible damage. Salvage-title status cannot be confirmed from exterior photographs. The front hood is severely folded and deformed, with multiple sharp creases and displaced panel surfaces. The front bumper cover is missing, with detached components hanging from and lying in front of the vehicle. The center grille is also missing, leaving the radiator and other front-end components exposed. Both front headlamp assemblies are absent or broken, and their mounting areas are open and damaged. The left and right front fenders and adjacent wheel-opening panels are severely crumpled, creased, displaced, and partially separated. The exposed radiator and condenser show bent cooling fins, while surrounding front support and mounting components are visibly bent, broken, and displaced. Multiple wiring harnesses are exposed and hanging loose around the front bumper and left front wheel area. The driver and front passenger airbags are deployed, and additional side or curtain airbag fabric is visible in the upper interior and passenger-side area. The vehicle should be treated as requiring extensive structural, body, cooling-system, electrical, lighting, and supplemental-restraint-system repairs. The provided findings do not establish the condition of the engine, transmission, suspension, steering, or other systems not visibly assessed. VIN decoding identifies this vehicle as a Germany-built 2013 Audi Q5 SUV with the Premium Plus trim, a 2.0T gasoline engine displacing approximately 1.984 litres with four cylinders. The decoded information lists front and passenger airbags and first- and second-row curtain airbags, consistent with the deployed restraint components observed in the findings. NHTSA records list five recalls applicable to this make, model, and year. They concern the auxiliary-heater wiring connector, the electric coolant pump, the sunroof drainage system and side head-airbag inflator, and the fuel-pump flange. The recall records describe potential fire, fuel-leak, or airbag-inflator hazards and identify free remedies, but the available information does not confirm whether any of these repairs were completed on this vehicle.