r/polestar3

Hey all,

A little over two weeks ago I asked about anyone knowing what Software version the EX60 is running on. Now I can answer this myself for anybody that is interested.
3.1.14 (released on August 17th). So it‘s a bit further than ES90, EX90 and Polestar 3 which run on 3.0.33 released on 13th of August.

Thinking of getting the roof shade my for my car as we get a lot of sun where I live. The OEM part is $300 from ViVa. Anyone got one if they’ve moved on from P*3 that they would sell cheaper with shipping? Owners who have it — how do you like it? Is it easy to deploy?

Enquired on a couple of used Polestar 3’s now at different Polestar locations and found the sales experience to be the worst I’ve ever had.

Only one returned phone call who promised to email more details / photos which never came.

Also visited Polestar North London who promised to bring a car down for me to have a look at. So I popped back 30 minutes later, no sign of said car and literally no sales people anywhere in sight. Waited 15 minutes in a completely empty showroom and then thought better of it.

Anyone else had similar experience? Totally putting me off even bothering with a Polestar 3, considering all the issues they have too. Pretty telling when I took our Volvo EX30 to Volvo to finally have the battery recall done that most of the service forecourt was littered with obviously dead Polestar 3’s!

It used to be on full when driving but now it’s quite dim. I find the only way to get it on full is to hit the interior lighting button in the overhead panel. I have gone into the lighting setting and ensure it’s set to full, but no change.

I have the Bowers & Wilkins audio in my Launch Edition, and there’s an annoying rattle coming from what I think is the center channel assembly, only because of the number of parts used there, but I haven’t been able to pinpoint it exactly. I know I’m not the only one, because the one I originally test drove had it too. I took delivery of mine, sight unseen. While on my original test drive, I asked the sales manager before delivery about it over the phone, and his response was “what rattle?” Mine came with the rattle, and it annoys tf out of me. For what this system is, and what the car costs, it’s unreasonable to me.

Anyone have any thoughts, resolution for this?

We went away on a 3 weeks overseas vacation. Couple of days in, the app notified me that a software update (3.0.28 I believe) was available to install, but, as you well know, you need to go to the car and trigger it from the main screen. I guess starting an update remotely is one of those mysteries of life that only the likes of Tesla, Lucid, and Rivian managed to unveil. Anyways, the notification stayed in the app for a good two week. Got back a couple of days and tried to apply it, but it was nowhere to be seen. Not in the car, not in the app. Any ideas what's going on? Is it because 3.0.33 is coming up? Anyone else experienced this?
Edit: 3.0.33 just popped up this morning, installing it now.

So I’ve been pushing the car a little bit more, and I was a little underwhelmed with how it handled tight corners, the front always wanted to push a bit. Then I turned traction control off (stiff suspension), and matted it while giving it more than enough angle for the turn, and boom I was fully sideways through the turn, stayed floored and straightened out as it hooked up again.

That was a moment of realization that traction control being off does in fact do something, and it will totally let you get out of control (and crash if you aren’t careful). Then I may or may not have sent it on an off ramp loop after that, and the torque vectoring was money. Much less sideways, just a nice slip angle.

In conclusion, I didn’t know the car could be driven like that on asphalt, and I should not do that anymore..

Dear Polestar Financial Services,

You should consider lowering the residual value for current lessees. Between the non-stop software issues, charging shenanigans, and now a literal ban of the next model year there is little doubt these vehicles are not worth what they were estimated to be at origination.

Still, there are people out there that love their P3 enough to purchase it at lease end. Why let these cars go to auction and take a financial bath when someone like me is willing to buy the car at true market value?

Why this makes sense:

• I win
• You win
• The cars don't end up on a used lot somewhere at a severe discount and in the process lower what you can reasonably get for whatever new P3s you have left in the US
• The government will change, the ban will go away, you may want to re-enter the US market in the future
• You keep true fans happy... ish and maybe we remain loyal whenever you come back to the states

Thanks,

A fan

EX90 3.0.33 was just released. Given how closely the EX90 and Polestar 3 software updates have been aligned lately, are we expecting the P3 equivalent to drop next?
Anyone heard anything or seen signs of P3.0.33 coming?

Had my P3 almost a year now and absolutely love it. Maybe my favourite car I’ve owned.

A few remaining niggles that stop it from being amazing. Wondering if others still have the same problems? Note I have not upgraded the chipset yet.

- Bluetooth connectivity still hit and miss. Automatically goes to CarPlay about 50% of the time, the other 50% I have to reconnect it
- Boot/Trunk has recently not been opening fully quite often. Seems it senses something in the way that’s not there. Again, about a 50% success rate. It also closes way too easily with the foot-wave thing and I’ve almost closed it on my head accidentally multiple times
- Still sometimes doesn’t remember seat positions for different profiles. Maybe 10% of the time it gives my wife’s seat position despite it showing my profile
- Alarm will randomly go off upon walking away with auto-lock meaning I have to return, open a door, close it and then it’s fine
- Paintwork seems to scratch very easily, especially the door pillars and door handles which are plastic or composite

Other than those things and one time where the infotainment freaked out completely requiring me pulling over and restarting it, it’s an incredible car. So smooth to drive.