AutoUtility currently tracks 23 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2024 Polestar Polestar 2. Driver Assistance & Safety Tech issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 13 complaints (56.5% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 1 filing cites a crash, 2 report one or more injuries.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 23 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Driver Assistance & Safety Tech (13 reports • 56.5% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Electrical System (4), Visibility, Wipers & Glass (4)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 2 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Reporting Methodology: Statistics describe unverified consumer submissions voluntarily filed with NHTSA. Complaint volume is not normalized for vehicle sales volume or miles driven. Multiple components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission.
Total Complaints
23
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
2
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2024 Polestar Polestar 2

Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records

#1 Problem Area 56.5% of complaints

Driver Assistance & Safety Tech

13 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ NHTSA Recall Context

NHTSA records list 2 official safety recall campaigns for this model year involving the same broad component area:

*Component overlap means an official recall exists for the same broad vehicle system. It does not establish that an individual owner complaint was caused by, covered by, or resolved through that recall.
⚠️ 1 crash report 🩹 1 injury report entry
#2 Problem Area 17.4% of complaints

Electrical System

4 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ NHTSA Recall Context

NHTSA records list 1 official safety recall campaign for this model year involving the same broad component area:

*Component overlap means an official recall exists for the same broad vehicle system. It does not establish that an individual owner complaint was caused by, covered by, or resolved through that recall.
⚠️ 1 crash report 🩹 1 injury report entry
#3 Problem Area 17.4% of complaints

Visibility, Wipers & Glass

4 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#4 Problem Area 13% of complaints

Wheels & Tires

3 owner complaints submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#5 Problem Area 4.3% of complaints

Powertrain & Transmission

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 1 crash report
Domain Share Note: Share percentage represents the proportion of unique complaint filings referencing each vehicle system. Because single complaints may cite multiple systems (such as engine and electrical simultaneously), domain percentages represent individual category incidence and may sum to over 100%.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2024 Polestar Polestar 2

Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation

Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11749463
Filed: 07/10/2026

"Leased vehicle 7-25-24. Driver’s rear tire had ongoing slow leak beginning several months after start of lease. We filled with air and reset stored tire pressure. This would last a couple months and same tire would begin to lose some pressure again. Finally at our 20,000 mile scheduled checkup,..."

Incident Date: 05/07/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: TIRES
Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11746336
Filed: 06/24/2026

"Michelin primacy all season 245/45r/19 102v Both rear tires cannot support the load of an rear wheel drive electric vehicle. Both tires wore through the tread at less than 20k miles. Warranty states they are good for 45k. Had to have tires replaced before they caused serious damage to the vehicle,..."

Incident Date: 06/23/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: TIRES
Electrical System NHTSA ODI ID: #11744735
Filed: 06/17/2026

"Purchased a used 2024 Polestar from Kia Van Nuys, CA on 5/18/2026. The Acknowledgement Regarding Recalls form noted that "The Report indicates that the Vehicle is NOT subject to an open recall at this time. I was having difficulty with the vehicle i.e charging, Internet connection and electronic..."

Incident Date: 06/01/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech NHTSA ODI ID: #11744434
Filed: 06/16/2026

"After installing the recent software update (version 5.0.10) that was intended to fix the rear camera not appearing when shifting into reverse, my vehicle has continued to experience the same problem, now with significantly increased frequency. Nearly every day--sometimes multiple times a day--the..."

Incident Date: 04/10/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: BACK OVER PREVENTION
Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11728390
Filed: 03/31/2026

"On 03/29/2026 at approximately 11:00 AM, I was driving my 2024 Polestar 2 southbound on [XXX] near [XXX] in the center lane at approximately 80 mph in heavy traffic. Without any prior warning — no vibration, no TPMS alert, no unusual noise, no warning lamps or messages of any kind — the left rear..."

Incident Date: 03/29/2026 • Raw NHTSA Component: TIRES
Consumer Narrative Notice: Excerpts are sanitized text descriptions submitted by vehicle owners to the federal ODI database. They reflect the reporting consumer's observations at the time of filing and have not been independently confirmed by vehicle manufacturers or government investigators.

Complaint History for Polestar Polestar 2

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2022–2025)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2022 Polestar Polestar 2 304 1 4 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Polestar Polestar 2 114 1 4 View 2023 Problems →
2024 Polestar Polestar 2 Current Page 23 1 5 Current
2025 Polestar Polestar 2 1 0 2 View 2025 Problems →
Comparative Disclaimer: Complaint totals are unadjusted historical counts and are not normalized for vehicles sold, active fleet size, or total road mileage. Newer model years naturally have had less calendar exposure time to accumulate owner filings.

Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2024 Polestar Polestar 2

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 11 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
Back Over Prevention / Camera NHTSA category: BACK OVER PREVENTION 9 0 0 0 0
Tires NHTSA category: TIRES 3 0 0 0 0
Visibility / Glass NHTSA category: VISIBILITY 2 0 0 0 0
Visibility & Wipers NHTSA category: VISIBILITY/WIPER 2 0 0 0 0
BACK OVER PREVENTION,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1 0 0 1 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,BACK OVER PREVENTION,FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 1 0 0 0 0
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 0 0 0 0
LANE DEPARTURE,BACK OVER PREVENTION 1 0 0 0 0
PARKING BRAKE 1 0 0 1 0
POWER TRAIN,ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,BACK OVER PREVENTION 1 1 0 0 0
Other / Uncategorized NHTSA category: UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 0 0 0 0
Data Attribution & Reporting Methodology: Complaints are unverified voluntary submissions to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). Because multiple vehicle components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission, component-level rollups may sum to more than the unique complaint count (23). Injury and fatality entries in the detailed table reflect raw values entered by reporting consumers across individual submissions; they are not deduplicated casualty statistics and may include duplicate or unverified entries. Complaint volume is not normalized for sales volume or vehicle mileage and does not represent an audited component failure rate.

Official NHTSA Defect Investigations (1)

1 CLOSED

Formal safety defect inquiries and engineering analyses opened by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI)

Official Federal Inquiries: NHTSA opens a defect investigation when safety screening or consumer defect trends indicate a potential unreasonable safety risk. An open investigation is a formal inquiry and does not by itself confirm a defect or result in a mandatory recall.
CLOSED Recall Query (RQ) ODI Action #RQ25004
Opened: 2025-07-09 • Closed: 2026-08-28

Loss of rear-view camera image

Affected Component: BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA

On July 9, 2025, the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened Recall Query (RQ) 25004 to investigate and review the effectiveness of the remedy for Recall 25V-280.Polestar initiated Recall 25V-280 to address shortcomings in the remedy for Recall 24V-477, which intended to address rear camera outage conditions. Consumer complaint traffic reporting rear-view camera outages after receiving the remedy for 25V-280prompted the RQ opening. On July 7...

✓ Resulted in Safety Recall Campaign: 25V615 Official NHTSA File →
Official US Government Data Provenance

The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.

Local Production Store Compiled: August 2026 • Deterministic Audited Dataset • Zero Dynamic External API Runtime Latency.