r/polestar3

The Polestar getting prohibited to sell new cars is no more news. Almost everyone who has ever seen or touched a car in the US and even beyond almost knows this. In hindsight, maybe that gave Polestar tremendous marketing leverage, which they could have probably never imagined.

I am a P3 owner (leased) myself. I haven't received any communication whatsoever, either from Polestar or from the local Polestar dealer in Grapevine, Dallas.

I am reaching out to the entire community to get some clarity on the current situation. I have seen tons of threads around this topic, but I haven't seen any clear communication or agreement from other Polestar owners.

So here are my questions :

1. Is the ban effective on all new Polestar models starting 2027, or is it on selective ones? My understanding is that, since the ban is driven by the underlying software lineage, it ends up being applicable to all the models. Correct ?

2. Did any of you receive any official communication from either Polestar US or from your dealer that you can share here? Are they even reaching out to every Polestar owner/lessee? I haven't seen any communication on their website or on the Polestar Investors website either.

3. What happens to the service network now? Do they just close shop? Do they transfer the service over to Volvo? I know my current Volvo dealer (I own a Volvo XC40 as well) are not allowed to service Polestars. I had a long chat with my service advisor in the past on this, and he patiently explained it as to why they can't.

4. Is Polestar offering any remediation options for current Polestar owners? Have they initiated or at least indicated via some official communications, that they will continue to provide all the necessary service support for as long as it takes? Are they providing some buy-back options?

5. For a consumer (any of us), what are the legal options available to walk into the dealership and dump the car right on their face and say "I'm done with this"? Not saying that anybody would want to do that (or maybe they do), but trying to understand the legal options available for consumers who are stuck in a situation like this . So far (knock on wood) with my 8 month old P3 (with 4000 miles), I haven't had any issues. It is the best driving experience I've ever had, and given an option, when my lease ends, I'd prefer to buy it and kept : "provided" I have a service network that I can rely on.

Thanks for patiently reading through this thread and for sharing your replies.

Cheers!

Looking at the prices, it looks like you can get close to 30k off of P3's, but I know a bunch of leases should be coming off contract in the coming months. Is it correct to assume that those cars will probably be in the low to mid 40's? I see dealers have used P3's at like mid 50's right now. The big difference would be you would only have like 1 year left on the warranty versus a brand new 4 year warranty.

What do you all think?

My GHCA finally failed!
I have 2 AC adapters at home, and neither of them charge the car. I get stuck on “Waiting” and “initializing” and then eventually, “Error.” Last night I plugged in at 40% and it failed at 66%. I’ve had my polestar 3 in 3 times for service in the last year. Once was for speaker rattling on the driver door, and twice for scraping sounds from the front motor.

The manager at polestar lisle on the phone said “What? Thats amazing that it’s your first one!” On the GHCA failure.

I thought i was so lucky, and then mercury retrograde said “NOPE!”

I noticed during this heat wave in NY that my infotainment system said to pullover and do a hard reset. Everything goes into Celsius instead of Fahrenheit, I can’t use 360 camera and I can’t adjust cabin temperature and my GPS says I’m in Jersey when I’m clearly in the lower east side. Anybody else experiencing any weirdness and overall performance issues with these conditions?

Now that the news is everywhere and my colleagues are taking pitty on me…

any scorching deals from the dealers?

At this point I might just get rid of this car, the amount of issues it has had over the last few months since I got it has been off the charts.

To start off, the first few months where perfect until one weekend we were going on holiday the next day and woke up to find the bloody 12V battery had been fucked over! We then noticed that many others had met this issue as well so we managed to just get it up in time for the plane.

We figured that that was a one off, until one night we went to plug it in and found out the full ac charging unit was completely blown! Luckily we did get free DC charging while it was blown so that was fine.

Just the other week the 12V battery was blown again which if course I was very pissed about until now. Just yesterday the car got back out of the service garage, and they noticed that the plug around the 12v was found to be corroded and then today we got in the car and was trying to go into drive and the whole entertainment system shit off on me! Along with the A/C and all lighting!

Does anyone else think this is a bit ridiculous?!

Would be grateful to hear your thoughts and see any real world pics of this config that ive ordered.. for the interior I went for the microtech carbon.

I live in a condo and even though I have my own deeded parking spot, I don’t have a charger.

So since I got the P3 15 months ago, I just DC charge, most often at a 62.5kw chargepoint spot.

I never bother to charge to 80 or more… unless I am going on a trip.

Before this I had a P2, same m.o.

I read that below 100kw it’s fine no battery degradation compared to L2 charging. even above 100 it was miniscule.

So, since the terrible news for US polestar owners, I’m thinking I need to pamper this car so it survives this and the next administration 😂

Am I good to charge at my beloved ChargePoint spot forever?

Paywalled though. Sorry.

Of those of you on leases, how many are considering purchasing P3 at lease end? I have had issues and looking at handing it back.

$20k bonus off sticker price + $4k loyalty bonus that will pay off my remaining PS2 lease payments. I found a ‘25 PS3 lease for about $600/mo with Pilot in Midnight, no adds.

It’s obviously a good deal. But I haven’t been looking regularly. How good a deal is it? Has anyone had luck negotiating on the fine points of a lease? Any suggestions what to ask for?

I love my PS2 but the lease is almost up and I don’t think I am up for a 4 until it matures some. And I could use more space.

I am a little nervous about all the negging I see about the PS3. It’s such a sick car to look at and drive. I can tolerate bugs but feeling like it’s a dice roll on reliability. That risk is easier to take with a huge slash from sticker price, but I have seen others here posting even bigger incentives. Just curious what I might see if I wait another few months for future deals.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking into buying a pre-owned Polestar 3 Dual Motor for daily highway commuting. I want to hear from actual owners who drive the car daily how is the experience today after some months / years of ownership.

Specifically, how do these features perform in the real world?

• Pilot Assist (Semi-autonomous): Is it smooth and reliable for long commutes, or is there phantom braking/ping-ponging?
• Air Suspension: Does it deliver that true premium, cloud-like comfort?
• HUD: Is the clarity good, and have the early setting bugs (not saving position/brightness) been fixed?
• Seat Ventilation (Nappa): Is the cooling effective on hot days?
• What is your real world range with the car on one charge ? 20-80% and 0-100%

Let me know your honest thoughts. Worth pulling the trigger, or are software quirks still getting in the way?

Thanks!

I have two polestar 3s. First one is leased. It’s had the GHCA replace 4 times. It’s been in service for months in total. I had purchased a second polstar 3. It’s been in service 2 out of my 3 months of ownership. Ive had rental cars for the past two months in which polestar is covering.

They are now telling me they will no longer reimburse me for my fuel, after I’ve saved my receipts for the past two months of driving. How on earth so they think they can force me to pay for gas when I own an EV vehicle? I pay $1100 for my polestar 3 per month (canada). Im sitting here paying that amount to drive around rental cars and paying for gas.

After receiving my car yesterday, I rushed back to work for a meeting. When I finished I went over to my car and relaxed the door handle that wasn’t working since I took delivery and was supposedly fixed did not in fact work. My Active noise control which they supposedly fixed was indeed not working. All of this after 2 months of being in service for these issues.

I think I have to lawyer up at this point but I’m open to suggestions.