Polestar Polestar 3, model year 2025. Filed by Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. and reported to NHTSA on 23 January 2026. 213 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. (Polestar) is recalling certain 2025 Polestar 3 vehicles. The striker brackets that secure the rear seat backrest may be loose. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 207, "Seating Systems."
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Polestar's own number for this recall: RP1079. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V037 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V037 cover?
- Polestar Polestar 3, model year 2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. (Polestar) is recalling certain 2025 Polestar 3 vehicles. The striker brackets that secure the rear seat backrest may be loose. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 207, "Seating Systems."
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- A loose rear seat backrest may fall forward and allow cargo to enter the cabin during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will inspect and tighten the rear seat backrest striker bracket mounting nuts as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 4, 2026. Owners may contact Polestar's customer service at 1-800-806-2504. Polestar's number for this recall is RP1079.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Polestar calls this recall RP1079, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A loose rear seat backrest may fall forward and allow cargo to enter the cabin during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V037 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. |
| System at fault | Seats:Critical Fasteners |
| Reported to NHTSA | 23 January 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2025 |
| Vehicles named | POLESTAR POLESTAR 3 |
What the notice says today
The defect
Polestar Automotive USA, Inc. (Polestar) is recalling certain 2025 Polestar 3 vehicles. The striker brackets that secure the rear seat backrest may be loose. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 207, "Seating Systems."
The consequence
A loose rear seat backrest may fall forward and allow cargo to enter the cabin during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will inspect and tighten the rear seat backrest striker bracket mounting nuts as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed March 4, 2026. Owners may contact Polestar's customer service at 1-800-806-2504. Polestar's number for this recall is RP1079. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will become searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning January 30, 2026.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 1d928f56bd22ddfc3bf62dd374edfeb7…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V037, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v037/
The copy quoted above hashes to 1d928f56bd22ddfc3bf62dd374edfeb7…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
Other Polestar notices we hold
- 25V615: 2021-2025 Polestar 2
- 25V555: 2025 Polestar 3
- 25V453: 2025 Polestar 3
- 25V420: 2025 Polestar 3
- 25V409: 2021 and 2024 Polestar 2
- 25V293: Polestar 3
- 25V280: 2021-2025 Polestar 2
- 24V940: 2025 Polestar 3 hybrid electric
All 17 Polestar campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 26V037 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
803831a7 - Consequence
d1bf234f - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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