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The bottom line: An old Audi Q5 still gets real offers at high mileage. You don’t have to fix it first: buyers quote a blown engine or a seized gearbox as it sits.
A Q5 is also offered more than other cars built the same years, though that edge shrinks in its teens.
Get each of Peddle, Wheelzy and CashForCars to quote your car, because their offers on the same Q5 ran far apart.
A Q5 that still drives may bring more sold privately. You trade the same-day tow truck for however long a buyer takes to turn up with the money.
What would buyers pay for your Audi Q5 today?Fill in one form about your Audi Q5 and see what several buyers would pay for it, side by side.
Key Takeaways
- Typical offer: Expect more for an old Q5 than for most cars its age: one from 2009 on is typically offered $1,700 against $990 across all makes.
- High mileage: A high-mileage Q5 with an accident still gets offers: a 2012 Audi Q5 with 150,000 miles and an accident on record got a best offer of $730.
- Audi edge: The Audi name lifts the offer less as the car ages: its lead over other cars narrows past 13 years old and closes by the late teens.
- Same car: Don’t stop at one offer: a 2012 Audi Q5 with 110,000 miles was offered $659 by one buyer and $1,395 by another.
- Four-figure offers: An old Q5 usually gets a four-figure offer, with 88% of offers on old Q5s over $1,000.
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Offer amount 30% 5/5
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Quote speed 20% 5/5
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Pickup speed 20% 4/5
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Vehicle acceptance 15% 5/5
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Process ease 15% 5/5
- Top offer on the 112,000-mile Q5: $1,550
- Buys cars that are missing keys
- Seven days to send photos once you accept
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Offer amount 30% 5/5
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Quote speed 20% 5/5
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Pickup speed 20% 5/5
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Vehicle acceptance 15% 4/5
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Process ease 15% 4/5
- Assists with replacement titles
- Buys cars stripped for parts
- Driver pays you before loading
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Offer amount 30% 4.5/5
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Quote speed 20% 5/5
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Pickup speed 20% 4/5
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Vehicle acceptance 15% 4/5
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Process ease 15% 2/5
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- Drop off your car at any yard
- Pays a check right at pickup
Automated assistant: general info, not legal advice
Answers come from our state paperwork data and published guides. Confirm anything binding with your state DMV.
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How Much Can You Sell an Old Audi Q5 For?
Our own quote data puts a 2009 to 2017 Audi Q5 at $1,700, from 26 offers on 2009 to 2017 Audi Q5s, 10 years and older when quoted. Those 26 offers cover every mileage. Everything else built in those years comes in at $990, from 4,390 offers on 2009 to 2017 cars, 10 years and older when quoted.
The Q5 only reached American driveways for the 2009 model year, so there is a single band of Q5s old enough for us to quote and no split by model year to draw yet. 88% of those offers clear $1,000, against 27% of offers on junk cars generally.
The premium is not the Q5 on its own. Audis of every model hold an edge over cars of the same age for a while, and then lose it, as the chart shows. Its sample line carries the offer count behind each bar.
Typical offer on an old Audi 152 Audi offers · 7,289 nationally · Age of car when the offer was made (years)Show the numbers
Age (years) Audi Offers All cars nationally Offers 10-12 $1,598 90 $1,235 2,808 13-14 $873 26 $720 1,746 15-17 $545 36 $555 2,735 
An Audi in its first years of eligibility is offered more than a typical car that age, the gap shrinks as it passes thirteen, and by the late teens it has gone. A badge buys you time, not a floor.
Miles pull in the same direction, and hardest while the car is still young enough for them to matter. The next chart covers every car of every make we have quoted through several buyers at ten years and older, not Q5s, and its sample line gives the count.
What mileage does to the offer, at the same age 920 cars 10 years and older, best offer from up to four buyers · Miles on the odometerShow the numbers
Mileage 10 to 14 years old Offers 15 to 19 years old Offers 20 years and older Offers 50k to 99k $3,530 88 — 29 $635 39 100k to 149k $1,555 150 $661 97 $495 83 150k to 199k $1,203 96 $506 102 $440 69 200k and up $575 45 $516 69 $418 82
Three of our four Q5s sit in that chart’s youngest age band. The 2009 one sits in the next band down, and it is the second highest of the four in miles.
It also drew the lowest best offer of the four. Age and miles point the same way on that car, so neither one can be pulled out and blamed.
What Online Car Buyers Offered for High-Mileage Audi Q5s
Our quote form has carried four ageing Q5s to Peddle, Wheelzy and CashForCars, and every offer on a given car landed inside a single day. Every one was driving, and every owner held the title with no lender behind it.
One had a warning light showing on the dash. The one with the most miles had been in an accident. Beyond that the forms came back clean: bodywork sound, glass and lights intact, interiors whole, catalytic converters still fitted.
| Audi Q5 | Condition | Peddle | Wheelzy | CashForCars |
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| 2012 Audi Q5 3.2 Premium Plus, 110,000 miles | Drives, clean title, nothing flagged | $1,395 | $659 | $1,146 |
| 2013 Audi Q5 2.0T Premium Hybrid, 112,000 miles | Drives, clean title, warning light on | $1,550 | $1,456 | Not quoted |
| 2009 Audi Q5, 126,000 miles | Drives, clean title, nothing flagged | $720 | $602 | $697 |
| 2012 Audi Q5 3.2 Premium Plus, 150,000 miles | Drives, clean title, accident on record | $730 | $558 | Not quoted |
Peddle came out highest of the three on all four of these Q5s. CashForCars was never asked on two of them, so it had two chances and finished second on both. Wheelzy came in lowest of the buyers asked on every car. On the 110,000-mile Q5 the three offers ran from $1,395 down to $659, more than twice apart.
Four cars is a thin base. Read each row as an example of what a Q5 like that drew on one day, not as a price for yours, and get all three to quote your own car.
All four of these Q5s still drove, and a car in that shape may bring more sold privately. You trade the same-day tow truck for however long it takes someone to turn up with the money.
How Much Does Damage Lower an Audi Q5 Offer?
Nothing strips an offer like a catalytic converter that has been cut out from under the car. A car that won’t start comes next, with a car sitting at a mechanic close behind. Those percentages are drawn from cars of every age quoted by several buyers, Q5s and everything else, with each car weighed only against others carrying similar years and similar miles.
What the condition of a car does to its best offer 1,484 cars of every age quoted by up to four buyers, compared inside matched mileage and age groupsShow the numbers
Condition Change in best offer Offers Catalytic converter missing -76% 369 Does not start -48% 869 Sitting at a mechanic -43% 295 Starts but does not drive -31% 653 Dashboard warning light on -29% 1,360 Body damage -21% 818 Broken glass, mirror or light -18% 818 Accident history -15% 1,360 Loan outstanding -11% 617 Interior damage -9% 707
Two of our four Q5s carry something from that chart. A dashboard light puts the best offer about 29% lower than a comparable car, and the 2013 Audi Q5 with a light on still took the largest number anywhere in the table at $1,550.
An accident is gentler than most owners fear. It sits at about 15% lower than a comparable car, and our one Q5 carrying that history took $730.
That car and the other 2012 in the table share a year and a trim, so it is tempting to read the gap between them as the accident. It also carries far more miles and was quoted in a different state weeks later, and one car is not a pattern, so the accident cannot be handed the gap on its own.
Should You Fix an Old Audi Q5 Before You Sell It?
A dashboard light is the cheapest question on the car and the most expensive one, depending on what is behind it. RepairPal puts an oxygen sensor at $440 to $523 and a catalytic converter at $2,280 to $2,480, and the converter costs more at either end than a 2009 to 2017 Q5 is offered in any condition.
RepairPal’s estimates are national averages across every car, not the Q5 alone. A timing chain at $2,120 to $2,764 and a gearbox at $6,238 to $6,764 are both past that figure before the shop touches anything else.
Price the repair at a shop, then ask how much more the Q5 would bring fixed, and let those two numbers argue it out. Nobody has to fix anything first: a blown engine or a seized gearbox gets quoted exactly as it sits.
Selling Your Audi Q5 Once You Have an Offer
Once you accept, the truck and the schedule become the buyer’s job, usually inside a day. While it is on its way, find the title in your own name and something with your photo on it.
Sign the title across to the driver and take the money first, before the Q5 rolls onto the flatbed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many miles is too many to sell an Audi Q5?
There is no cut-off. The most miles on any Q5 in our table is 150,000, on a car that had also been in an accident, and two buyers still put a number on it.
Every extra mile shaves the number a little, and anything that keeps the Q5 from moving under its own power shaves it a lot.
Can you sell an Audi Q5 that still has a loan on it?
Yes, and the loan itself barely moves the number. Set a car with one outstanding against a comparable car owned outright and the best offer comes out at 11% lower.
What the lender needs is the slow part, because the loan is cleared out of the sale before the title can move. Our guide to selling a financed car walks through the order it happens in.
Can you sell an Audi Q5 that won’t start?
Yes. Junk car buyers quote cars that do not start, and the driver winches it onto the truck instead of driving it on.
Say so on the quote form. A Q5 described as driving and then found dead at pickup is where offers get rewritten in the street.
Is a 3.2 quattro Audi Q5 offered more than a 2.0T?
We cannot say. We have quoted too few old Q5s to split them by engine, and the single 2.0T in our table is a hybrid and the newest car of the four, so its top offer cannot be laid at the engine.
Name the engine on the quote form all the same, or the three buyers end up costing three different cars.
Article Update History
The page now covers what an old Audi Q5 is offered by model year, age and mileage, with side-by-side buyer quotes and what a warning light or accident does.
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What the condition of a car does to its best offer, Junk Car Value Statistics
"1,484 cars of every age quoted by up to four buyers, compared inside matched mileage and age groups" Accessed Oct. 2, 2026
Junk Car Value Statistics, Sell Car Advisor
"On this page: 5 figures from 17,628 instant cash offers, and 3 figures from same-day quotes by several buyers" Accessed Oct. 2, 2026
"$440 to $523, oxygen sensor replacement cost; $2,280 to $2,480, catalytic converter replacement cost; $2,120 to $2,764, timing chain replacement cost; $6,238 to $6,764, transmission replacement cost" Accessed Sep. 11, 2026
