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Polestar Polestar 3
107 NHTSA complaints and 6 safety recalls across model years 2025–2025.
- Complaints
- 107
- Recalls
- 6
- Model years
- 1
The verdict
The Polestar Polestar 3 pairs above-average complaint volume with 6 recalls (above-average).
- 31st pctile
- complaint volume, US models
- 6
- recall campaigns
Polestar Polestar 3 vs. all tracked models
Total NHTSA ODI complaints across models with substantive safety data
107 Around the middle lower than 31% of 3,088 models
tracked vehicle models, bucketed by value
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Source NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation · August 2026
The PolestarPolestar 3 appears in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database with 107 consumer safety complaints and 6 recall campaigns across 1 model year (2025–2025). That averages roughly 107 complaints per model year. Report counts can differ between model years for many reasons; this dataset does not establish the cause of a difference.
Complaint volume on a nameplate alone is not a reliability verdict: a long-running bestseller can accumulate more filings than a low-volume niche model because more vehicles are on the road. The table below shows report counts and published NHTSA crash-test ratings side by side for each model year.
NHTSA has 1 investigation file tied to this model, with 1 currently open. Investigation records, complaint reports, and recall campaigns each provide different context. Use the official NHTSA VIN lookup and the underlying notices to research a specific vehicle; PlainCars does not infer a vehicle-risk or pricing conclusion from these records.
Complaints by Year
| Year | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 |
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NHTSA Investigations 1 Open
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Data sources
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. Polestar Polestar 3 totals are aggregated from the linked NHTSA model-year rows; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.